The US Vice President is next in line for the big job but she is unpopular with the public, her staff and her party.
Many people had a crush on Kamala Harris at her inauguration as vice-president of the United States in January 2021. There was more excitement about her political rise than there was for the old warhorse Joe Biden. She looked resplendent in purple, the colour of the suffragettes.
She insisted that she would only deal with the “root causes” of the problem. She spent months resisting intense pressure, first from Republicans and then from the media, to visit the border early on in her vice-presidency. When she eventually went to Guatemala in June 2021, her message to migrants was merely a bald: “Do not come.”
– the 1973 case that ruled a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy was protected by the US Constitution.“How dare they tell a woman what she can and cannot do with her own body,” she thundered the following day in a speech at a gala for the feminist group Emily’s List.
In fact, Harris was born in California in 1964 and is therefore a “natural-born citizen” according to the US Constitution, whatever the status of her mother and father, who came to the United States to pursue doctorates at the University of California, Berkeley.
Harris' election campaign team and vice-presidential office were originally staffed by mostly Biden appointees . It is reported that across the White House as many as 21 black employees have either left or are expected to leave in the coming weeks, including some frustrated at their lack of support and opportunities for promotion under Biden.
There is no sign of diminishing ambition on her part. Quite the contrary. Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff, a former Californian entertainment lawyer, is an active member of her team . He was recently at a “fireside conversation” for lawyers in New Hampshire, an early primary state. Coincidence? It is hard to say at this stage.
provocatively ranked Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg second behind Biden but ahead of third-placed Harris. This ranking will have stung the vice-president, given Buttigieg’s low ratings among black voters .
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