Harris, despite her many strengths, would face the same entrenched biases and opposition that have plagued her vice presidency.
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine extended Ohio’s first-in-the-nation ballot deadline to allow Democrats until September to nominate their presidential candidate this year, solving a filing date technicality that had seemed to threaten President Joe Biden’s Buckeye State ballot status.
After emerging from the competitive cauldron of San Francisco politics, Harris and Newsom enlisted the same blue-chip California consulting firm in their statewide campaigns, although Harris moved on from the firm now called Bearstar Strategies after her unsuccessful 2020 presidential run.
Allies of Kamala Harris are engaged in a delicate, behind-the-scenes effort to make sure the vice president moves to the top of the ticket if President Joe Biden steps aside, according to five people involved in the project or with knowledge of the discussions.
Representative Keith Self of Texas said the Democrats reminded him of Joe Btfsplk, a cartoon character from “Li’l Abner” who perpetually has a dark cloud hanging over his head. Self thinks Democrats have “a pretty tough road to hoe,” provided, of course, the road doesn’t lead off a cliff.
Even as she has remained diligently loyal to President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris has sought to avoid having her own political strengths denigrated.
Vice President Kamala Harris used her first opportunity since J.D. Vance formally accepted the Republican vice presidential nomination to take shots at the Ohio senator, telling a crowd of supporters in Fayetteville,
As uncertainty remains about Biden’s candidacy, Vice President Kamala Harris is back in North Carolina, this time in Fayetteville.
Kamala Harris has the same approval rating among Black women as President Biden, according to a new poll, which must come as a blow to the Vice President as Biden's electoral fortunes falter. And it comes as a surprise, as Black women have been pivotal for securing Harris her spot on the ticket.