Posted on 01/17/2023 7:43:45 AM PST by Red Badger
Vice President Kamala Harris has apparently disappeared from leading any public events on migration — dodging one of the responsibilities bestowed upon her by the president — for over seven months, a Daily Caller analysis found.
The last time Harris led an event on migration was on June 7, 2022, when she announced nearly $2 billion in additional funding to address the “root causes” of migration. She has not led a migration event since and did not accompany President Joe Biden on his first trip to the border, according to a Daily Caller analysis of White House public statements.
In December, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said she didn’t have any updates on what Harris has been doing on migration. Harris’ office did not respond to an inquiry from the Daily Caller posing the question, “has she done anything on migration” since June?
Instead of Harris tackling illegal migration issues, White House public statements show her attention visibly shifted to abortion, diplomacy and diversity events in the second half of 2022.
A large part of Harris’ summer was spent pushing abortion rights after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in May and speaking to state leaders across the country about reproductive rights. Since her last migration related event, Harris had at least 28 meetings with various leaders about reproductive rights, including with Latina state legislators and disability rights leaders.
Harris’ abortion efforts were accompanied by meetings with foreign leaders. In the last seven months, she met with the presidents of Mexico, France, South Korea, South Africa and Moldova; traveled to South Korea, Thailand, the Philippines and Japan; spoke with leaders of the Pacific Islands, Nigeria, and the Caribbean, the president of Guyana, and the prime ministers of Canada, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Poland, Jamaica and Lithuania. She also participated in the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit.
She also participated in at least 10 events for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), held events as the chair of the National Space Council, and advertised the administration’s legislative agenda — like the Inflation Reduction Act — across the country. Other Harris events include those on climate, LGBT rights, and a flurry of Democratic campaigning before the midterms.
Biden appointed Harris to lead the migration efforts of the administration in March of 2021, saying, “it’s not her full responsibility and job, but she’s leading the effort.”
“I’ve asked her, the VP, today — because she’s the most qualified person to do it — to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help — are going to need help in stemming the movement of so many folks, stemming the migration to our southern border,” Biden said at the time.
The Biden administration has experienced record numbers of illegal immigrant encounters, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recording 250,000 encounters in December — the highest in history. Several CBP agents have committed suicide amid the record numbers, and the U.S. is undergoing a fentanyl epidemic due to the drug being smuggled across the border.
On Jan. 5, before Biden’s trip to the border, the president said he was “proud” of Harris for securing $3.2 billion in private sector funding for Central America. Harris did not participate in the remarks on the administration’s border strategy, and just jumped in to fill in for Biden’s gaffes.
The presidential candidate would have gotten the votes, and the VP candidate from the other party would also have gotten the votes, too.
-PJ
Unless she's run over by a yellow school bus, in which case McCarthy would become President.
-PJ
Other than casting a ‘break the tie’ vote in the Senate, and a couple of ceremonial duties, there is absolutely nothing required for a VP to do.
She could go on a 4 year vacation and never set foot in DC................
Give California's 54 EV to Republicans and the path for Democrats becomes nearly impossible.
Actually, it splits the EV, not awards the whole of it. So, the Democrat presidential candidate gets California's 54 EV and the Republican VP candidate gets California's 54 EV. It would probably put a split ticket into the White House.
-PJ
You can’t have open borders and a welfare state willing to support them.
Kamala could pick Newsom for VP, but they could not both run on the 2024 ticket unless one of them changed official state of residency.
If Biden were to step down and then Kamala was run over before a new VP was sworn in, McCarthy would “act as President.” The Constitution is not clear if he would actually be President or just “Acting President.” Maybe the Congressional law on succession spells it out more clearly.
Boy that’s confusing.
Kamala could pick Newsom for VP, but they could not both run on the 2024 ticket unless one of them changed official state of residency
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Not true. See post 23.
It would be foolish to do it. They would risk losing their state electors. But they could do it.
"Acting President" is most commonly used when the elected President is still alive but incapacitated. This assumes that the President will resume the office once the incapacitation is resolved.
However, when a President dies, the Constitution formally elevates the Vice President to the office of President. The Presidential Succession Act expands the line of succession through the House, Senate, then Cabinet members in order of the creation of their departments. It is here that the phase "acts as President" is preserved.
Since there is no provision for voting for a new President, one must assume that the "acting President" from deeper in the line of succession becomes the President just as the Vice President becomes President.
-PJ
I believe that in the early days, the Electoral College was made up of city and town leaders from each state, and they voted as individuals for whom they thought were the best people for President and Vice President, subject to the restriction that they could only vote for one person from the same state as themselves. This was also from the period when three, four, five or more people ran for president (nobody ran for Vice President) and the #2 vote-getter became Vice President.
Today, the party candidates are treated is an indivisible pair (though technically they are not), and the Electoral College is a slate of pre-vetted members of the state party delegation who rubber-stamp the ticket. Voters in each state are voting for the slate of Electors, who then rubber-stamp the their party's pair of candidates.
It would be wild if we had some kind of reform that did away with voting for a Vice President, and made everybody run only for President, letting the Electoral College assemble the final offices like in the old way.
-PJ
100%
On her knees?
Today, both a President and Vice President run together as one. It would be interesting to see how things might go if people ran separately for each office and the Electoral College picked the President and Vice President separately.
-PJ
As the Founding Fathers intended!
The national prom king\queen contest that we have now has about run its course. Maybe we should go back to the Founder’s original system! PM’s in parliamentary systems are not picked by the population finding the most “sexy” candidate! Picking the Prez & VPrez should occur after the state legislative elections. The new legislatures pick the electors who then select the Prez & VPrez from the two lists the parties provide or maybe someone out of the blue.
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