A shortage of accomplishments as vice-president does not matter: her real job is to weld together a shattered Democratic party, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
A shortage of accomplishments as vice-president does not matter: her real job is to weld together a shattered Democratic partyto be the Democratic party’s candidate for the most powerful job in the world. She appears sorely underqualified, though she is hardly more so than the two men she wishes to succeed. Criticising the failings of leaders thrown up by US democracy has long been a European sport. It may be more useful instead to suggest their possible strengths.
Much has been made of her shortage of accomplishments as vice-president, but accomplishments are rare in that office. Biden initially saddled her with the poisoned chalice of the border crisis with Mexico; his critics claim deliberately so. It was insoluble. Domestic policy is also riven with divisions on abortion and crime. On the first, Harris has been an outspoken campaigner.
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