The former California senator has broken glass ceilings, but in the role of vice president, he has remained in the dark.
As vice president Terrible Harris is privileged to enter retreating Joe Biden to boots, but he has his burdens.
These ten things tell who Harris is and how far he’s come.
1. Born in 1964 Kamala Harris is the daughter of immigrants. The father is of Jamaican origin, the mother is of Indian origin. The parents divorced when Kamala was 7 years old.
2. As a child he lived for a while in Quebec, Canada. He studied law and before his political career was a district attorney in San Francisco and the attorney general of the state of California. Among other things, he presided over the first gay marriage ceremony performed in California.
3. Kamala Harris was selected senator in 2016. In 2019, she started a presidential election campaign with the slogan “Kamala Harris for the people”. However, Harris had to suspend his campaign for the Democratic nomination when the support money dried up.
4. Joe Biden raised him however, as a couple. In November 2020, the people of the United States elected Kamala Harris as the first woman of color to be the Vice President of the United States. She swore the oath of office to her husband by Doug Emhoff alongside in January 2021.
5. As vice president, him has been considered loud. The staff in his office changed a lot, and he did not get significant results in the areas of responsibility he received, such as handling immigration. The Republicans had already prepared for the situation that had arisen by already rolling the problems arising from immigration onto the necks of the “immigration tsar” Harris.
6. Last year the White House and there were individuals within the Biden campaign who questioned Harris’ appeal as Biden’s running mate. Since then, however, Harris profiled himself on the abortion issue and the talks died down.
7. Kamala Harris has raised also his profile among young voters, for example by taking a stricter stance than Joe Biden on Israel’s actions in Gaza. So Harris may be able to bring back women and young people disillusioned with Biden to the ranks of the Democrats, but it is a mystery whether it will be enough.
8. Some polls have shown after Biden’s unsuccessful TV debate that Harris would do better than Biden Donald Trump against, but even he would have trouble beating Trump. After the debate, a Reuter and Ipsos poll showed 43 percent support for Trump and 42 percent for Harris.
9. Voters loyal to the Democrats even in the district, however, Harris does not receive unreserved support. In a poll commissioned by the AP news agency on Friday, only six out of ten Democrats believed that Harris would be a good president. 20 percent of the respondents did not believe this and 20 percent could not evaluate.
10. Harris’s real weakness may lie in attracting mobile voters. His political brand is leaning towards the left wing of the party. Mobile voters are important for both parties to win. Because of his political brand, Harris may also face difficulties in fundraising.
If Kamala Harris is the Democratic nominee against Donald Trump in the November election, a major decision will be who will be her running mate. The one that contributes to Harris’s own weaknesses in the eyes of the voters.
AP, Reuters