When President Joe Biden was sworn into office along with his barriers-breaking vice president, Kamala Harris, it wasn’t long before it became clear the administration wanted to give the impression she was deeply involved with the running of the executive branch.
Although Harris, who was a freshman senator when she ran for the presidency herself and was later picked as Biden’s running mate after dropping out early on in the primaries, had little relevant experience and even less appeal to the American people, she began taking calls with foreign leaders on Biden’s behalf as the White House re-branded the administration as “Biden-Harris,” directing federal agencies to do the same.
The jokes have long been running that the relatively youthful, wickedly ambitious Harris is eagerly waiting for Biden to plotz or be otherwise deemed unfit for the presidency — and if she is, she certainly wouldn’t be the only one who is wondering how much longer Biden will last in office.
Yet now that the Biden-Harris administration is in the throes of its biggest and most disastrous blunder yet — the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan — suddenly, Joe is flying solo, and the “Harris” part of “Biden-Harris” is nowhere to be found.
In April, Harris bragged to CNN that she was “the last person in the room” when Biden set his Sept. 11 deadline to withdraw from Afghanistan, yet now, in August, in the days after Kabul fell to Taliban fighters and as the U.S. continues to scramble to evacuate personnel and American allies, she’s not been in any room with Biden.
When the White House tweeted out a photo of Biden in a Camp David conference room on Saturday as the Taliban approached Kabul to prove he was, indeed, working, Harris joined his meeting with other administration officials by video call.
When Biden addressed the nation on Monday, Harris, we’re told, watched the speech from the “Green Room,” the Daily Mail reported, citing a White House official, although she usually flanks him when he addresses the nation — as she did on Aug. 10 when the Senate passed the long-awaited $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill.
She hasn’t held a public event since Aug. 12, and while she’s set to join Dr. Anthony Fauci at the Newsmaker Plenary on Thursday to discuss COVID-19 and the black community, according to the Daily Mail, her office has announced no other public events for this week.
When asked by a gaggle of reporters ahead of her Aug. 12 event, in which she met with several CEOs to discuss economic concerns if Afghanistan was “lost to the Taliban,” Harris did not answer.
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