What a joke.
Cackling Vice President Kamala Harris has vowed to not “go quietly into the night” and to stay energetic in politics after spectacularly dropping her presidential bid.
“You all know me because we have spent long hours, long days and months and years together,” Harris stated Friday with a snicker as she accomplished the custom of signing the vice chairman’s desk drawer.
“It is not my nature to go quietly into the night. So, don’t worry about that,” she stated.
The outgoing veep added her signature subsequent to the likes of former Vice Presidents Dick Cheney, Joe Biden and Walter Mondale. She is the primary feminine and second minority to function VP.
The desk-drawer signing ceremony dates again to the Forties, and her desk has been utilized by each vice chairman since Lloyd B. Johnson.
Harris, 60, kept away from giving specifics about her subsequent plans, however she is rumored to be contemplating a run for political workplace once more, together with as governor of California, whose present chief, Gavin Newsom, is term-limited.
“It is the work of caring about our country,” she stated of the vice presidency. “It is the work of understanding we hold these offices in the public trust with the duty and the responsibility to uphold the oath we take to respect, to defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Since her defeat to President-elect Donald Trump, Harris has largely laid low, showing just for key occasions such because the administration’s response to the California wildfires and presiding over the Jan. 6 congressional certification of her defeat.
She has beforehand dropped hints about staying energetic in politics.
“We will continue to wage this fight in the voting booth, in the courts and in the public square,” she declared throughout her concession speech in November.
Harris took the reins from President Biden to function the Democratic Occasion commonplace bearer some 107 days earlier than Election Day.
Finally, Trump swept all seven battleground states and have become the primary Republican presidential aspirate to win the favored vote in 20 years.
In the meantime, Biden, 82, has publicly steered that he may have received if Democrats didn’t jettison him from the highest of the ticket on the final minute in favor of Harris.
“It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” Biden informed USA Immediately earlier this month, pointing to polling knowledge even whereas acknowledging he didn’t know if he had the vitality for one more 4 years as commander in chief.
Throughout the transition, Harris uncared for to present Vice President-elect JD Vance and his household a tour of the Naval Observatory residence, CBS Information reported.
Vance’s workforce had reportedly reached out after Trump’s win with questions in regards to the extent to which the Queen Anne-style mansion wanted child-proofing. Vance, 40, has three youngsters.
