Democrats are seriously weighing the prospect that Kamala Harris could become their nominee. Harris, already dissatisfied with her lack of visibility, is ramping up her approach.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.By early this year, about the time a prosecutor described US President Joe Biden as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory”, Vice President Kamala Harris already knew something had to change.
Now, the effort to reintroduce herself has reached its most critical moment, with Biden’s candidacy plunged into crisis after a devastating debate performance in Atlanta and Democrats seriously weighing the prospect that she could become the nominee. Although a CNN poll found that Harris was 2 percentage points ahead of Biden in a hypothetical contest against former President Donald Trump, she still lost to Trump in the survey.AdvertisementCalifornian Democrat Senator Laphonza Butler, a close friend of Harris’, said she noticed a change in her this year.
She turned to old friends, who told her she had a power that members of Biden’s tight inner circle – predominantly made up of white men – did not. One friend recalled telling her that she was the only one in the room with Biden who could not be fired. This year, aides said, she believed that case would be harder to make. Biden’s support for Israel in its war in Gaza was causing outrage on the left, particularly in the crowd at Selma that empathised with Palestinians.
“When she showed up in Selma, she was the Kamala we saw when she was a district attorney in the Bay Area,” said Maya Wiley, the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, who was in Selma. “We saw the Kamala who was an attorney-general, we saw the Kamala who was cross-examining people as a senator.The vice president has also become the White House’s leading voice on abortion rights, a topic that Biden has never been comfortable talking about publicly.
In May, the vice president was leaning more into how she has navigated a lifetime of often being the only woman of colour in a room.
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