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panader0

(25,816 posts)
Fri Dec 9, 2022, 10:42 AM Dec 2022

I wish President Biden would give more spotlight to V.P. Kamala Harris.

She seems to be missing from the public eye, except for occasional appearances behind Biden
at events like yesterday's announcement about Griner. She is a very capable, likeable and intelligent
V.P. and I wish she wasn't in the shadows. Biden gave the border assignment and she was criticized.
She needs to head up a popular issue.

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niyad

(113,434 posts)
2. Itbis not President Biden keeping VP Harris hidden. It is the F'n msm
Fri Dec 9, 2022, 10:51 AM
Dec 2022

deliberately ignoring her, unless they can have the vapours over cooking pots.

Ocelot II

(115,757 posts)
4. The job of VP is like that. We didn't see Biden very often when he was VP.
Fri Dec 9, 2022, 10:54 AM
Dec 2022

Their work has always been mostly behind the scenes; they didn't even get an office in the WH until Walter Mondale was given one by Carter. Dick Cheney was more powerful and influential than his puppet W but we didn't see him in public very much (which was fine with me). I'd like to see a bit more of Harris, too, but the nature of the position doesn't offer a lot of public exposure.

Squaredeal

(398 posts)
5. I assume the she has had to spend most of her time in DC...
Fri Dec 9, 2022, 11:50 AM
Dec 2022

providing tie-breaking votes in the 50-50 senate. Next session she should have more time to focus on other issues.

mopinko

(70,141 posts)
6. i suspect if he'd been pushing her, ppl would think
Fri Dec 9, 2022, 12:01 PM
Dec 2022

he wasnt running again, and was anointing her his successor.
which is the last thing she needs. i have die hard dem friends who still say hillary was ‘crammed down our throats’ and thought ‘it was her turn’.

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