It’s not goodbye, it’s … who’re you once more?
Vice President Kamala Harris is about to embark on a whirlwind farewell tour subsequent week that can take the vanquished 2024 Democratic presidential nominee to Asia, the Center East and Europe within the closing days of the Biden administration.
Harris, 60, is predicted to satisfy with international leaders and US service members stationed in Singapore, Bahrain and Germany all through the five-day journey, slated for Jan. 13 to Jan. 17, and trumpet her and President Biden’s exploits throughout their solely time period within the White Home.
“Throughout her trip, the Vice President will discuss the accomplishments of the Biden-Harris Administration over the past four years in each region, the U.S. partnership with the respective nations, the contributions of U.S. military forces to regional and global security, and the enduring national security interests of the United States,” the White Home mentioned in an announcement Tuesday.
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff will be a part of Harris on her closing world tour as vice chairman and “engage with civil society, including religious leaders and families of servicemembers,” the White Home mentioned.
The voyage will enable Harris to verify Bahrain off her nation rely listing, which she’s by no means visited as veep, and make the island within the Persian gulf – which she pronounced as “Beh-ran” simply two years in the past – the twenty second nation she’s traveled to on the taxpayer’s dime.
She has beforehand visited Germany and Singapore as vice chairman.
Conservatives on social media ridiculed Harris for embarking on the abroad journey in her closing days in workplace.
“Really, couldn’t that have been in a text?” conservative columnist Liz Peek wrote on X, referencing the White Home announcement that Harris will tout the Biden administration’s “accomplishments.”
“What is the ‘carbon footprint’ of this absurd and ridiculous travel?” one other person chimed in.
“We must see where we have been to know what we have done,” one X person quipped in an obvious reference to Harris’ notorious proclivity to talk in “word salad.”
Harris has but to disclose her post-White Home plans however has reportedly instructed her allies to maintain her choices open for a doable political comeback within the aftermath of her disastrous marketing campaign towards President-elect Donald Trump – through which she misplaced the favored vote and Electoral Faculty, together with each single swing state, regardless of elevating north of billion {dollars} in marketing campaign funds.
The Politico report has spurred hypothesis that the vice chairman is eyeing coming into the 2026 California governor’s race or maybe even launching a repeat bid for the presidency in 2028.
