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Kamala Harris slowly starts to carve out role beyond 'making sure Joe Biden is a success'
ABC News / Disney ^ | February 17, 2021 | By Ben Gittleson (D-ABC)

Posted on 02/18/2021 4:07:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

As vice president, Joe Biden oversaw an array of issues important to the Obama administration: implementing an economic recovery act, shaping foreign policy from Iraq to Ukraine, and strengthening cancer research.

But now that Biden is president, his vice president, Kamala Harris, asked in a recent interview what her signature issue would be, replied she has one focus: "Making sure Joe Biden is a success."

It is a delicate, new role for someone used to being in charge, as a senator from California and the state's attorney general -- one she has said she is basing off how Biden himself handled eight years in the office she now holds.

She has yet to take on a specific set of issues beyond promoting whatever Biden is focused on -- which so far, has largely consisted of the federal government's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

But Harris's engagements so far have, in fact, nodded to her historic role as the first woman, Black person and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president, particularly by encouraging Black Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Biden has made clear he wants Harris -- with whom he sparred during the Democratic presidential primary -- to model her approach after his own eight years as President Barack Obama's vice president.

When Biden appeared with Harris for the first time after selecting her as his running mate in August, he recounted how, when then-Sen. Barack Obama chose him as his vice presidential running mate, "I told him I wanted to be the last person in the room before he made the important decisions."

Asked for specific examples of when Harris had been the last person in the room with Biden during an important decision so far, a White House aide declined to say.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2020; journalism; media; press
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1 posted on 02/18/2021 4:07:35 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

SLOWLY?!

Less than a month from his inauguration?!

Usually VPs wait til, y’know, a year before the election to break away.


2 posted on 02/18/2021 4:09:31 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I never thought our country would be run by a dementia patient and a whore.
Things do not bode well for us.


3 posted on 02/18/2021 4:09:49 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Kamala The Pulse Checker 😂


4 posted on 02/18/2021 4:10:00 AM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp, )
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To: EEGator

Pray that this is just an interregnum.


5 posted on 02/18/2021 4:11:59 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
TWO THINGS that irritate the JIT out of me;

hillay's cackle and THIS ones'

"I'm about to cry but never quite get there" voice

6 posted on 02/18/2021 4:12:11 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: EEGator

The GOP is a brothel. It’s Controlled Opposition.

The thing about actual whores, like Harris, is the transaction is an honest one: you pay and they screw you.

The GOP is supposed to be the ones cleaning up the situation, but you find out they’re bigger whores than the ones who are honest about it.

Trump comes along and burns the brothels down on both sides of the street. Now the whores are mad.


7 posted on 02/18/2021 4:13:15 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Well, State of the Union was supposed to be Feb 23, but the date is not confirmed by the Whitehouse.

Maybe, Camel could work on that!
Baby steps, do not want to overwhelm them with work.

Maybe Camel could go down to Kansas and Texas to hand out cookies to folks shivering in their homes.


8 posted on 02/18/2021 4:19:24 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
She's schtupped her way *almost* to the top...now she only needs to wait for the 25th Amendment.
9 posted on 02/18/2021 4:20:14 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Indian Vice Prime Minister, reporting to Modi


10 posted on 02/18/2021 4:23:07 AM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: Gay State Conservative

Harris better be concerned about that happening. If it does, who becomes her VP? If her dem handlers pick Hillary or Pelosi, she wouldn’t be president for long.


11 posted on 02/18/2021 4:32:46 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Skywise
As vice president, Joe Biden oversaw an array of issues important to the Obama administration: implementing an economic recovery act, shaping foreign policy from Iraq to Ukraine, and strengthening cancer research.

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Biden has made clear he wants Harris -- with whom he sparred during the Democratic presidential primary -- to model her approach after his own eight years as President Barack Obama's vice president

Great idea having Harris emulate Biden's two utter failures and one incomplete. Maybe he means his eight years of sniffing hair and forced nuzzling of women. Fakephonyfraudident Biden excelled at that.

12 posted on 02/18/2021 4:37:57 AM PST by Dahoser (I finally figured out what to call him: Fakephonyfraudident Biden. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This has been scripted from the start by Zero, ValJar, and whoever else is pulling the strings.


13 posted on 02/18/2021 4:42:50 AM PST by CASchack
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
No way will ILLary or Bella Pelosi be named.It's most likely to be Buttplug,Beta O'Rourke or that chick with 5 o'clock Shadow that Plugs just appointed to something.
14 posted on 02/18/2021 4:43:26 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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15 posted on 02/18/2021 4:45:39 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

She’ll be watching ole joe, hoping for signs that he is going to resign.


16 posted on 02/18/2021 5:05:57 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Who is the chick wth the 5 o clock shadow? lol


17 posted on 02/18/2021 5:09:01 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: Blue Highway
Who is the chick with the 5 o clock shadow? lol

Remember "her"? Plugs just appointed "her" Secretary of Defense...IIRC.

18 posted on 02/18/2021 5:22:40 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Gay State Conservative

That person is messed up physically and mentally. I think it’s in charge of Health, not Defense.


19 posted on 02/18/2021 5:24:49 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: Gay State Conservative

Say...now that I think about it, I never see “her” and karl rove in the same room at the same time...


20 posted on 02/18/2021 5:25:25 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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