🇺🇸In the 10 months since the inauguration, the vice president has been all but invisible.
Is her vanishing act by choice or at the behest of Biden’s advisers?
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🔙The historic nature of Kamala Harris’s election as the first female vice president of the US seemed to creep up quietly.
Then, resplendent in suffragette purple, Harris drew every eye at the ceremony, Biden relegated to the role of supporting actor
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⭐️If this woman, the child of immigrants, the first black and south-Asian vice president elect, could go all the way to the top of US politics so could any little girl, anywhere
Harris is the most important vice president since Franklin D. Roosevelt because Biden is so old.
As the second in command to a near-octogenarian, it seems not just a possibility but almost a probability that America could soon have its first female Commander-in-Chief
✅When Biden was choosing a running mate, Harris seemed to tick every box – her centrism chimed with his, and her ethnicity and gender appealed to voters an old white bloke could not reach.
She had even been close friends with his late son, Beau
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🗳️According to reports, the president was initially reluctant to invite her on to his ticket.
Having been persuaded of the electoral sense of the move, some now see an element of revenge in the task the new president gave her once they were in office: immigration
📰Months passed with the VP failing to materialise at the border, or do or say anything of substance: newspapers mocked her apparent inaction.
Misstepping on an issue as controversial as this would be catastrophic. Yet her track record to date has been both patchy and poor
Where once the spin was that the presidency was a “joint Biden-Harris administration” the last two months have seen her and Biden together at just two events; at ceremonies marking the anniversaries of 9/11 and the Martin Luther King Jr memorial on the Mall in Washington DC
For those around the world who believed the vice president was a beacon of hope for the future – the woman who could – her absence over the past year has spoken the volumes her actions should have.
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