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A Vice Presidential Learning Curve: How Kamala Harris Picked Her Shots
The New York Times ^ | Aug. 18, 2024 | Peter Baker and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Posted on 08/18/2024 9:05:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

When a draft of a blockbuster Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade leaked in 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris met with Ron Klain, then the White House chief of staff, in her West Wing office. He had an idea: She should lead a new task force on abortion rights.

She seemed uncertain. “Why?” she asked.

“We need a real leader, and you’re the leader,” Mr. Klain responded.

Ms. Harris asked for time to think about it. She did not want to just give a speech without substance. And she had spent much of the previous year and a half trying to avoid being typecast as the first female vice president. But as the White House began mapping out executive actions to defend access to abortion, she began to see the possibilities and accepted the role.

It was a moment that captured the essence of the Harris vice presidency. Deliberate and disciplined, cautious and at times risk averse, she saw trapdoors around her and wanted to avoid them. She considered herself a team player, but could not always be sure the team had her best interests at heart. She gravitated to issues on which she thought she could make a difference without upstaging President Biden, but was rarely promoted as a critical player in the administration.

The court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision eliminating a constitutional right to abortion proved to be an issue on which Ms. Harris could take the lead, one that Mr. Biden, a churchgoing Catholic, did not feel as comfortable addressing. She found her voice as the administration’s champion of abortion rights, changing some minds among Democrats who had harbored doubts about her. And she paved the way to the...

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Ms. Harris asked for time to think about it. She did not want to just give a speech without substance.

You have to admit, that's comedy gold.

1 posted on 08/18/2024 9:05:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They meant she does pickled shots.


2 posted on 08/18/2024 9:08:26 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Kammunist doesn’t have to spend money on toilet paper, when Peter Baker is around to perform the function of a human bidet.


3 posted on 08/18/2024 9:08:30 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The right to murder the innocent is an odd sort of right.


4 posted on 08/18/2024 9:09:24 AM PDT by Brian Griffin ("The fundamental problem is that anyone can claim asylum with zero proof" - Elon Musk)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So she’s clearly the abortions czar.

She resist being called the border czar. But she seems to relish that function when it comes to abortions.


5 posted on 08/18/2024 9:16:51 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

bttt


6 posted on 08/18/2024 9:17:15 AM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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> You have to admit, that’s comedy gold. <

Yes, indeed. If the two idiots who wrote this article ever get laid off from the
New York Times, they should apply to the Babylon Bee. They’d be hired in an instant.


7 posted on 08/18/2024 9:20:00 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: brownsfan
Or these kind of shots...


8 posted on 08/18/2024 9:20:01 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here’s more on BJ Harris VP pick to watch and share:

Shocking videos below!

HE DID WHAT?? Tyrant Walz Deployed National Guard to Shoot Citizens on THEIR OWN PORCHES!

https://heraldposts.com/he-did-what-tyrant-walz-deployed-national-guard-to-shoot-citizens-on-their-own-porches/

That’s the damning conclusion given by the Gateway Pundit in their report on Walz’s outrageous behavior during COVID.

In an appalling show of power abuse, Walz ordered National Guard troops to force residents back inside their homes in Minnesota during COVID. This was evidenced in a shocking video that captured these actions.


9 posted on 08/18/2024 9:27:53 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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It was a moment that captured the essence of the Harris vice presidency. Deliberate and disciplined, cautious and at times risk averse...

Really? Have you seen any of her off-teleprompter responses to questions. The word salad that almost always follows is hardly "Deliberate and disciplined". Just watch her responses to "The significance of time", "Artificial Intelligence", and "The Cloud". Most 10 year olds could do better.

10 posted on 08/18/2024 9:31:11 AM PDT by econjack
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The “cloud” clip is my favorite.


11 posted on 08/18/2024 9:32:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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She did not want to just give a speech without with substance.

There...fixed.

12 posted on 08/18/2024 9:34:31 AM PDT by econjack
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Draft “leaked”. !!

Classic deep state communist trick.


13 posted on 08/18/2024 9:45:42 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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“A Vice Presidential Learning Curve: How Kamala Harris Picked Her Shots”

Hell, I don’t think she can successfully pick her nose let alone her shots. I smell another Obama puppet.


14 posted on 08/18/2024 10:27:09 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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15 posted on 08/18/2024 10:28:38 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Another thumb-sucking article from the NYT.

Will they never stop?


16 posted on 08/18/2024 10:39:09 AM PDT by sauropod ("This is a time when people reveal themselves for who they are." James O'Keefe Ne supra crepidam)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I agree, and started to type a response. Then I scrolled down and saw that you already said it.


17 posted on 08/18/2024 10:58:39 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And since the Kennedy Administration the de facto Space (NASA) Czar. I wonder how those 2 astronauts feel now...


18 posted on 08/18/2024 11:00:25 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The script writers at NY Slimes are really terrible at it— really! What absolute DRIVEL. Who does the Times thinks reads their crap— certainly by links to much lower down the scale “readership” online and 3 second tik tok MORONS!

“Doesnt want to give a speech without substance!”... then print out her last 5 or 6 speechs.... vapid empty crap with lots of cackles and the price gouging crap is Golden Communism. Stupid Slimes.


19 posted on 08/18/2024 11:03:00 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis )
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I clicked on it and was going to write, “I am not going to submit my brain to this crap this morning,” but you summed it up for me.


20 posted on 08/18/2024 11:08:23 AM PDT by Luke21
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