‘Not a Thing That Comes to Mind’: Harris Says She Wouldn’t Do Anything Differently from Biden over Past Four Years
Kamala Harris says she can’t recall a single action that she would have taken differently when serving as Vice President to Joe Biden over the last four years.
Harris appeared on The View, Monday morning. Sunny Hostin asked Harris a light question about whether she had handled something differently than Biden. This was an important question to Harris as the campaign for the presidency neared its end.
Harris replied: “I can’t think of anything.” “I was involved in most of the important decisions.”
Harris later revisited this topic, and tried to differentiate herself from Biden. She reiterated her promise to name a Republican as a member of her cabinet.
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Many prominent anti-Trump Republicans, including Dick Cheney, the former Vice President, and his daughter, former Representative Liz Cheney, have endorsed Harris’s campaign. She had previously criticised Harris’s progressive positions, but has now turned her attention to Trump. Jeff Flake, the former senator from Arizona who was a vocal opponent of Trump when he served in the upper chamber of Congress, was the ambassador of the Biden administration to Turkey up until last month.
Harris, aware of Biden’s low approval rating and the widespread dissatisfaction of voters with the direction the country is taking, is trying to accomplish the difficult task of running for office as a change agent whilst defending the Biden Administration’s record.
Biden, who is 81 years old, hasn’t been a prominent surrogate in Harris’s campaign ever since she replaced him at the top of the Democratic Party ticket when he resigned from the presidential race last July after Democrats publicly revolted over his mental health.
Harris’ campaign is based on a message that she calls “joy”, and tries to contrast this with the “weird vibes” of her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, as well as his running mate GOP Senator J. D. Vance.
Harris, and her campaign, have also backed off many of the extreme left positions that she took four years ago when she ran as a candidate for president to make her more appealing to moderates and swing voters who might be turned away by Trump. She now presents herself as a pro-immigration hawk who opposes a ban on fracking, which is a position that’s popular among Democratic Party activists and will alienate Pennsylvania voters.
Biden appointed Harris as the “border czar”, in charge of dealing with illegal immigration. This is one of the most important issues of this election due to the record number of illegal migrants that have crossed the Southern border over the last four years.
Harris avoided questions about the Biden administration’s lax immigration policy and tried to blame Republicans for their opposition to a bipartisan border agreement earlier this year. Conservatives opposed certain provisions in the border proposal, arguing that President Biden should have implemented the changes by executive order. Biden signed an executive order to tighten asylum requirements a few months later.
Harris’s recent media appearances, including on 60 Minutes and The View, are part of an aggressive friendly media campaign she has launched with just weeks until the election. She also sat down for a softball-style interview on the raunchy feminist show Call Her Daddy where she and host Alexandra Cooper talked about abortion and Harris’s prosecutor career.
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