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Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) has the perfect response to anyone wondering if a woman can really beat President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
The Democratic presidential candidate fielded the question at a town hall event in Iowa on Monday night. During her conversation with CNN’s Jake Tapper, a man in the audience asked what she thinks of the notion that Democrats would have a better chance of winning the 2020 election with a male candidate.
Playwright and composer Robert John Ford noted that many Democrats “agree that the primary objective for 2020 is to nominate the candidate that has the best shot at defeating Donald Trump.”
“Some have also said that, given what occurred in 2016 and the current political climate, that a male nominee will have a better chance this time around than a female nominee,” he continued. “Would you please respond to this so that this man has a response ready the next time a man tries to mansplain why a man would make a better nominee?”
The audience responded with applause and laughter as Harris rose to her feet, eager to respond.
“The person who presented that point really is not giving the American voters enough credit. They’re smarter than that,” she said. “The people who vote, the people who live in this country in this country are smarter than that. They’re going to make decisions based on who they believe is the best leader.”
She added she didn’t listen to those who doubted her when she successfully ran for district attorney in San Francisco and later attorney general of California ― so she’s not going to start listening to them now.
“I’ve heard people say — when I ran and ran as the first woman who would win — [people would say] ‘People aren’t ready,’ ‘Oh it’s not your time,’ ‘Nobody like you has done that before,’” Harris told the audience. “I haven’t listened and I would suggest that nobody should listen to that kind of conversation.”
Her listeners responded with a round of loud applause.
Harris formally launched her 2020 presidential campaign in Oakland, California, on Sunday. She joins several Democrats who have already announced White House candidacies, including Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
Watch Harris’ full answer to the town hall question below.
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"Now it's time for every other nation to pick a side," US secretary of state Mike Pompeo told the United Nations Security Council on Saturday, urging them to reject "Maduro and his mayhem."
The US, UK, Canada and majority of Latin American nations have already declared support for the upstart Guaidó, while Russia, China, Turkey and others have rallied behind six-year president Maduro.
"If Maduro is able to stay in power, it will benefit those that believe that the state should have the final say, no matter what citizens want—like Cuba, Russia and China," he told CNN.
"If Maduro is forced out, it will help those countries that believe that final political authority should rest with citizens, like most of Latin America, Canada and the US," he said.
Increasingly isolated in South America and the West, Maduro has sought to deepen ties with Russia and Turkey for years.
He shares a strongman style of rule with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian president Vladimir Putin, says Evren Celik Wiltse, a political scientist at South Dakota State University who studied in Turkey and lectures on Latin American politics.
"They are all about keeping their populations under check, grabbing more power and projecting it to the rest of the world," Wiltse told CNN in an email.
Maduro also sees his relationships with China and Russia as a form of "life insurance" at the United Nations, adds Víctor M. Mijares, political scientist at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
"China and Russia have veto powers and would be able to save the Venezuelan regime from a punitive resolution against it," said Mijares via email.
But what do his backers get in return? We asked regional experts to weigh in.
China has invested heavily in Venezuela
China
China is Venezuela's most important creditor, says Mijares. From 2007 to 2016, China's state banks extended 17 loans to Venezuela worth a total of $62.2 billion, according to the
Inter-American Dialogue
, a US-based think tank -- more than it loaned to any other Latin American country.
And from 2005-15, Chinese companies invested a total of $19.15 billion in projects in Venezuela, according to
figures
compiled by the American Enterprise Institute, a public policy research institute based in Washington DC.
However, figures show that China then cut back on investments, perhaps with an eye on what it was owed and mounting evidence of Venezuela's
inability to meet repayments
. From 2016-18, it added just $1.84 billion to its investments in Venezuela.
"The relationship has become increasingly political, with China interested in propping Maduro up for economic reasons," Mijares told CNN via email, "as well as geopolitical, in the midst of tensions with the United States."
And China's repayment hopes could be thrown into further uncertainty if Maduro leaves office. Experts say that Maduro has focused on
meeting debt repayments
rather than alleviating the growing humanitarian crisis.
A new government could prioritize dealing with shortages of food and medicine instead of paying creditors.
Russia
Russia and Venezuela's friendship dates back to the presidency of Hugo Chavez.
Venezuela was one of few countries in the world to follow Russia's lead in recognizing the Georgian breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent, said Mijares. Venezuela has also backed the Russian positions on Syria and Ukraine.
"Now Russia has become Venezuela's most important business partner in the Orinoco Belt," he said, referring to the oil fields in northern Venezuela.
And Russia's state-run oil company Rosneft has a vested interest in Maduro's government.
In December 2016, Rosneft took a
nearly 50% stake in Citgo,
a U.S.-based oil company that's owned by Venezuela's energy giant, PDVSA, as collateral for a $1.5 billion loan to Maduro's government.
In 2017, signs pointed to Russia and Venezuela deepening ties as the Kremlin extended a lifeline to the cash-stripped country by agreeing to restructure
$3.15 billion of debt payments
that it owes Moscow.
Some foreign policy experts see Putin's investment as an attempt to build influence in Latin America, a region where the US once held significant sway.
In a show of what close military ties could mean for security in the region, Russian bombers capable of delivering nuclear weapons flew to Venezuela to take part in joint exercises in December 2018.
Putin "is clearly trying to send a message to the United States, that he can play in our backyard," former US assistant secretary of defense Derek Chollet
told CNN
at the time.
Turkey
After Turkey experienced a failed coup attempt in 2016, relations with Venezuela have become increasingly close.
The Maduro government claims to have suffered
repeated coup attempts
in
recent years
, and in the past week both governments have described the current crisis in Caracas as another one.
"Turkish leaders, and specifically Erdogan, clearly see Maduro as someone unfairly targeted by the West," said Asli Aydintasbas, researcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
"There is a sense of affinity—a tendency to identify with him since the failed coup attempt of 2016."
Venezuela sends gold to Turkey. Turkey exports food and humanitarian aid to Venezuela. But for both, the political links may outweigh the economics.
"With the loss of Venezuelan allies in Argentina and Brazil, relations with Turkey serve as a counterweight," said Helen Yaffe, a researcher at the London School of Economics' Latin America and Caribbean Centre.
"Relations with Turkey mean having an ally that is connected to Europe and is a NATO member."
The relationship plays into Turkey's ambition to become a bigger geopolitical player, too.
As Mehmet Ozkan, a researcher at the Center for Global Policy in Washington, DC, points out: "Turkey considers itself as a global economy, tries to project its power, and one way to do it is through building alliances and especially providing humanitarian aid."
He cautions that those aid deliveries, distributed by the military, can permit Maduro to drive the country further into an economic vortex.
USA
Although President Donald Trump backs Guaidó and has imposed sanctions on Maduro and his inner circle, the US is still Venezuela's
largest customer for oil
.
A break in that trade would hit both countries hard, which makes
Monday's decision
to sanction Venezuela's state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. confusing at first glance.
However, money from any purchases of Venezuelan oil by US entities would be released only to the legitimate leaders of Venezuela, according to US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and national security adviser John Bolton, which presumably includes Venezuela's self-declared interim President Juan Guaidó.
Has the US felt threatened by Venezuela's pursuit of other relationships, and success in finding a major partner in China and support from Russia?
The country's relationship with powers outside the US orbit is already cause for concern in Washington, DC, says Helen Yaffe.
"Throughout the 2000s, Russia and China made serious inroads into Latin America, increasing trade and investment," she said, adding that the US took measures to counteract that tendency under President Obama.
The US has traditionally considered the region to be its backyard, and the increasing influence of rival global powers close to its territory has worried officials.
But Venezuela's few friendships may also offer strategic opportunities.
As Ozkan points out, Turkey could now be in a position to assist US dialogue with Caracas given Erdogan's good personal relationships with both Trump and Maduro.
"Trump can push Turkey to be a facilitator or a leverage over Maduro for an exit," Ozkan told CNN via email.
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