Former Vice President Kamala Harris is once again stunning viewers with her speaking decisions.
A New York Times profile on the woman who could have been President of the United States indicates that voters haven’t seen the last of her, but the less-than-flattering nature of the piece is enough to make one wonder if she’ll ever receive enough support to make another run for the Oval Office.
“Old advisers, both allied and estranged, have squinted from afar at her book tour, wondering what exactly her strategy is, or if there is any at all. She has done little to distance herself from former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. besides admitting aloud that it was ‘recklessness’ on her part not to have discouraged him from running again,” author Shane Goldmacher writes. “There has been virtually none of the strategic repackaging that a future candidate typically does, the buffing out of flaws and shining up of strengths.”
Indeed, one of the most important criticisms of Harris’s truncated campaign was her lack of transparency surrounding policy. Voters had no idea what she stood for in 2024, at a time when millions were voting based on specific issues such as immigration, economic stability, and social issues like DEI. President Donald Trump was blazing across the campaign trail with a plan and a schedule, while Harris was dropping in on cherry-picked media sources and putting out heavily edited clips of her saying basically nothing. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why America put Trump back in office and left Harris in the dustbin of history.
“Ms. Harris has made clear she doesn’t ‘feel burdened’ — yes, she still uses that phrase — by where she fits in the punditry pecking order or the polls or the cable chyrons. She is enjoying the freedom from what she calls the ‘transactional’ constrictions of campaigning, of asking people for a vote,” the piece continues. “Her place in history is already secure, and she knows it.”
“I understand the focus on ’28 and all that,” Harris explained in her interview with the NY Times in Nashville. “But there will be a marble bust of me in Congress. I am a historic figure like any vice president of the United States ever was.”
While Harris could still stage a political comeback, especially should the Democrats see a sizeable victory in the 2026 midterms, it is still noteworthy that she spent the entire first year following her defeat staying on the sidelines instead of attempting to take a leadership role within her own party as it struggled with an identity crisis. This alone is enough to make any reasonable person wonder what kind of leadership style she would display as the President of the United States.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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