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The misunderstood first 100 days of Kamala Harris
It’s not caution driving her. It’s an overarching desire to earn the trust of the president she serves.
Vice President Kamala Harris applauds during U.S. President Joe Biden s address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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One hundred days into her historic turn as vice president, Kamala Harris remains a largely misunderstood figure.
Rather than the cautious and overly ambitious pol she’s portrayed to be, interviews with more than a dozen current and former aides and others in Harris’ orbit paint a picture of a veep who remains intensely focused on earning the trust of Joe Biden, so much so that outside allies believe she’s partially motivated by a fear of losing it. Some worry she may be hurting her future political prospects in pursuit of it.
100 days in, Kamala Harris isn t angling to succeed Biden
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Kamala Harris, nearly 100 days in, has been visible as Biden’s VP. But is she influential?
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Vice President Kamala Harris, left, listens as President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the guilty verdict against former policeman Derek Chauvin at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)TNS
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WASHINGTON – When President Joe Biden delivered a rare nationally televised address last week, he shared the platform with Vice President Kamala Harris, who helped him make the case that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd created an urgency to change policing laws.
Kamala Harris, nearly 100 days in, has been visible as vice president. But is she influential?
“The president sets the tone and the agenda and we are complementary to making sure that we’re bringing her unique lived experience,” said Rohini Kosoglu, Harris’ domestic policy adviser who previously served as her Senate chief of staff.
Harris has just one solo assignment working with Mexico and three Central American nations to discourage immigration to the United States a fraught task that she has yet to fully explain, and one that has put a political target on her back for Republicans eager to blame her for the border problems. Harris has no plans to visit the region until at least June. Progress is not only important for Harris’ political future but also for the safety and livelihoods of millions of people in the region.
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When President Biden delivered a rare nationally televised address last week, he shared the platform with Vice President Kamala Harris, who helped him make the case that former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin’s murder of George Floyd created an urgency to change policing laws.
That moment following the Chauvin trial would have seemed improbable 20 months ago in the heat of a Democratic presidential primary debate: Then-candidate Harris lectured rival Biden on the nation’s racial history, accusing him of wounding young Black girls like her when he opposed busing in the 1970s to desegregate schools and hurting her personally when he boasted of working with segregationist senators long ago.
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