2024-07-21 19:04:13
John Adams, the second president of the United States, defined the vice presidency as the “most insignificant office,” and the Republicans consider that the tenure of the Democrat Kamala Harris is not lacking at all. But since Adams, the position has become a function of power and the performance of Harris (Oakland, California, 1964) has even broken several records: the largest number of runoffs in a legislature, 32 until December last time, since the US Constitution reserves two main functions for the vice president: to succeed the president in case of death, resignation or impeachment, and to preside over the Senate and resolve ties in votes. When Harris, the first woman, the first Black, and the first South Asian American to hold the office, in 2021, she was completely unaware that those two were her main duties.
Before he was president, Adams was George Washington’s vice president, so he knew what he was talking about. He set the precedent for the transition from one office to another and since then, at the end of the 18th century, three sitting vice presidents have been elected president, as well as two former vice presidents, including Joe Biden. A kind of Sudoku of ambitions and misfortune, such as those that brought his leader to the White House in 2020 and, this Sunday, far beyond.
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Since the days of Adams and the founders, the vice president’s job has been largely taken away: Harris, the successful California lawyer—too Californian, that is, liberal, for the Republicans—took over as part of the Administration’s immigration policy. Biden from 2021, to the point that the opposition is mocking him as the “immigration czarina.” He also came, after the revocation of the doctrine Roe vs. Wade who covered the constitutional protection of the right to abortion, in June 2022, as a champion for the sexual and reproductive health of their fellow human beings, a political asset that allowed the Democrats to save the furniture, and even the decoration, in the center. -term elections in November of that year. She is a self-confessed feminist, and her sign of wearing white at the celebration of the Democratic victory in Wilmington (Delaware) recalled the role of the suffragettes.
Kamala, a pure minority Democrat, arrived at the White House as number two of Biden after challenging him in the primaries. She was supported by a term in the Lower House (2017-2021) and, prior to that, six years of experience as California Attorney General (2011-2017). The Prosecutor’s Office and the Senate, in that order: the planned ladder to power in the United States; culmination of years of experience as, first, assistant district attorney (1990-98) in Oakland, a position that earned him a particular reputation for being tough on cases of gang violence, drug trafficking and sexual abuse, and district attorney ( 2004), the springboard to the State Attorney’s Office.
These were the times of the Democrats Barack Obama, and the hangover from the Great Crisis of 2008, with his history of bankruptcy, and Harris showed his political independence, refusing, for example, pressure from the Government to reach an agreement on a national law. against mortgage lenders for unfair practices (the junk or subprime mortgage hole has not yet been closed). Persisting and tough, Harris insisted on the example of California and in 2012 she achieved a sentence five times higher than the sentence that Washington invited her to close. His special merit was the repeal of Proposition 8 (2008), which banned same-sex marriage in the state, in 2013. His book Smart on Crime, published i 2009, as a model to address the problem of criminal recidivism.
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In addition to being the most natural automatic replacement and above all, not opening the thunder box of an urgent convention four months before the elections – which the progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, among others, warned against – , it seems Biden has now returned the favor to Harris. What appeared in 2020 as a strong contender for the Democratic nomination, in a very crowded primary, threw in the towel in December 2019 after failing to take advantage of the caboose. Three months later, at the beginning of the pandemic, she gave her support to Biden, the sixth of all the candidates for the job. The Democratic contest was then reduced to a duel between Biden and incumbent Bernie Sanders, but Harris’ support for the incumbent president was decisive in bringing him to the White House.
“I have decided that I am going to enthusiastically support Joe Biden to be president of the United States,” the senator then said in a video shared on Twitter. “I believe in Joe. “I really believe in him, and I’ve known him for a long time.” Even then, her name appeared frequently in the vice-presidential pools, just as now, since the fatal June 27 debate that signaled Biden’s downfall, she has looked like a candidate for the presidency. The Republicans, who joked this week about the debate that will pit the two vice presidential candidates against each other by refusing to set a date because “they don’t know the identity of the vice president” who chooses Kamala Harris, got it right it.
Mixed marriage
The roots of the Democratic candidate for the presidency of the United States must be found in Jamaica and India. His father, a professor at Stanford University, came from the Caribbean island; His mother was a cancer researcher, the daughter of an Indian diplomat. Her sister, Maya, is a public policy expert, with whom she is very close. The presidential candidate graduated in Politics and Economics in 1986 from Howard University and, three years later, in Law from Hasting College. It is, therefore, the origin of a rich family, which is too intellectual for the standards of the neo-republican community. Her career also established her in the elite, as did her late marriage, when she was approaching the age of 50, to the lawyer Douglas Emhoff, whom she met on a blind date and who in 2021 became the first Second Man of the United States , who is Jewish, has practically put his career on hold to carry out this official function full-time, which often involves public representation and events (in his case, participation in debates and in proceedings against anti-Semitism, debate on the rise to the following). Gaza war). When they married, ten years ago, Emhoff stood on a crystal gag with his right foot, as was marked by Jewish tradition, and Harris placed a garland of flowers on the groom in the Indian style.
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