Kamala Harris
was born on October 20, 1964, is an American politician and attorney who is the
49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, under
President Joe Biden. A member of the Democratic Party, she was previously a
U.S. senator from California from 2017 to 2021 and the attorney general of
California from 2011 to 2017.
If one
recalls Harris' own ill-fated run at the Democratic nomination in 2020, and her
time in politics before then, the math in this equation becomes somewhat
fuzzier, Harris was a truly bad candidate. And prior to that, she perpetuated
some truly bad policies.
Remember:
Harris' shambolic 2020 campaign for president. She wouldn't commit to policy
positions. She couldn't defend her past actions. There were ongoing stories
about her poor treatment of her staff. She entered the race as a top-tier
candidate, with glowing press and some big-time backers, and dropped out two
months before the Iowa caucuses, polling at just 3 percent nationally. She
wasn't even polling as a top-tier candidate in her home state of California.
The image of Harris as slippery, all ambition, no ideology—may contribute to her unpopularity among American voters. It's almost certainly more of a liability than the once-common critique that Harris was an overzealous cop and drug warrior. (Harris has a horrible record as a prosecutor. She did not release people who were convicted of low drug crimes even though she had the option, such as marijuana possession, and wrongfully convicted people leading them to be kept behind bars)
Kamala
Harris the horrible campaigner and Kamala Harris the cop can be easy to forget
if you're only considering what Harris has done lately. Her tenure as vice
president has been almost entirely unremarkable. The most distinguishing
feature has been a series of bizarre but benign word salads. And political
memory is short. Besides, the lack of distinguishing actions during her vice
presidency could even be to her advantage. She's basically a blank slate, at
least if you don't look back too far.
Early in her Vice Presidency, her staff began leaving, this is quite unusual, because the Vice President’s office is more involved in overall administration policy than any place in government except the White House itself. But after three years, only four of the original 47 were still working for her. There is something seriously amiss, then, in her management style.
kamala Harris policies: purely left-Californian: opposition to fossil fuels and fracking, supporting Medicare for all, taxpayer funded health care for illegal immigrants, bail funding for rioters, and defunding the police, that have caused San Francisco to lose its famous luster. On the key issue of illegal immigration, Harris was supposed to be the Administration’s key senior policy official. She described her role as seeking the “root causes,” but never identified any.
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Remember:
Not only did Harris help put the parents of truant kids in jail, but she wrote
in her 2019 book The Truths We Hold that "instituting a statewide
plan on truancy was part of the reason I'd run for the office in the first
place." That is who Kamala Harris is (though she claims the jailing was
unintended)
I can't pretend Harris doesn't have serious and worrying flaws. As much as she's been a pretty benign figure during her vice presidential days, there's nothing to stop her worst tendencies from flaring up again if she becomes president.