who run the world? https://t.co/Kp8nap7dZN — Kirsten Allen (@knicole_a) April 17, 2024 This week's @VP schedule:Tues- Host Passover Seder at VP residence with @SecondGentleman.Wed- NY bound to tape interview with @DrewBarrymoreTV.Thurs- WH remarks for Take Your Child to Work Day.Saturday- Attend with SG for annual @whca Correspondents Dinner. — KAMALA NATION (@KamalaNation) April 22, 2024 …
Tuesday Evening Open Thread: Vice-President Harris, Doing the WorkPost + Comments (74)
In December, Harris announced her nationwide Fight for Reproductive Freedoms tour.
In March, she became what is believed to be the first vice president to pay an official visit to an abortion clinic (no president has done so), when she visited a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, Minn.
No matter how sensitive and knowledgeable men try to be on the issue of reproductive rights, there are still things that we cannot fully connect to. Harris transcends that barrier not only because she’s a woman but also because of her background as a prosecutor…
Harris may never be duly recognized for her contributions to the administration on a broad range of issues, but in the end that may not be her calling.
According to her office, since Roe was overturned, the vice president has held “more than 80 convenings in 20 states.” Being a trusted voice in favor of reproductive rights and against Republicans determined to restrict or eliminate them may be the greater contribution she can make to Biden’s re-election bid and to maintaining national stability.
With this issue, she has hit her stride. With it, the talk of her as a liability has been hushed, for some, by the clear realization of what she brings to the campaign. With it, Harris has a mission, and she’s on it.
.@VP is such a key — and effective — messenger on top issues pic.twitter.com/sPd3W8KJGB
— Jim Messina (@Messina2012) April 21, 2024
NEW from me: Sitting in Las Vegas last week, Kamala Harris told me she is finding these days on the campaign trail “very liberating.”
After her infamously rocky first few years, here’s how she got there: https://t.co/goIaDCdEx1
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) April 21, 2024
Kamala Harris hadn’t even started building up to her ending when the crowd in Las Vegas — more fired up than any poll would suggest — started chanting, “Four more years!” But she made sure everyone heard the line she’s come up with: “Trump abortion bans.”
And not one pro-Palestinian protester interrupted her that day, or, for that matter, over her four-day campaign swing West.
The vice president is clearly feeling energized these days. She is more engaged. She is looser. Aides say she was the one who pushed to explicitly call out former President Donald Trump as responsible for every rollback in abortion rights, and she is clearly feeding on the old prosecutorial rush of tearing apart the opposition’s argument…
“She has been front and center on so many of the most politically potent issues right now,” said Julie Chavez Rodriguez, who was a top aide to Harris for years before becoming the Biden reelection campaign manager, calling these “new opportunities to speak to the coalitions we know she already has a deep affinity to, but on issues that are top of mind for those voters.”
“As a former prosecutor, she can prosecute the case on so much,” Rodriguez said.
It means getting to talk about gun control and reaching out to younger voters like the gym full of high schoolers in Vegas who cheered even more loudly for her than they did when Marvel actress Xochitl Gomez took the stage first. (“She’s killing it!” an excited 15-year-old in a Barbie-pink denim jacket exclaimed after pushing up to take a photo with Harris as Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” played on the speakers.)…
Watch till the end:
Talked to hundreds of high schoolers in Las Vegas who are passionate about gun violence prevention.
Everybody deserves to be safe from gun violence.
Together, we can make that happen. pic.twitter.com/qZWZEiJmrt
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 18, 2024
Whenever our @VP interacts with kids, you can feel the genuine happy emotions from these children that can not be denied. ?? ?? https://t.co/ydEuGwBCZ3
— KAMALA NATION (@KamalaNation) April 19, 2024
It was an honor to meet you, Madam Vice President. pic.twitter.com/KhydNtKC8o
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) April 21, 2024
It was great meeting with Lavon and his family in Charlotte, North Carolina and chatting about the legacy of Shirley Chisholm, small businesses, and what our administration is doing to reduce energy bills. pic.twitter.com/jcY3pogm0K
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 21, 2024
BREAKING: Donald Trump just canceled his rally in North Carolina because it was raining.
Anyways, here is a video of Kamala Harris dancing at a campaign rally for no reason whatsoever. pic.twitter.com/dHDPF31thL
— Dream for America (@DreamAmerica_) April 22, 2024