Sen. Kamala Harris told TheView that she would be “honored” if she is considered as a potential running mate for Joe Biden, but “I have to be very, very honest with you — I am full-time focused on what we need to do to address the coronavirus.”
The California senator is critical of Mitch McConnell’s claim that the impeachment hearings distracted the president during the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak.
"The buck stops with him. You know, here's the thing, this is a this is a moment of international crisis," Harris told the show's hosts."And this is where leaders must lead. The president of the United States was also the commander in chief in a moment of national crisis, which is that we have a publicpandemic that has led to an economic crisis.
"I work in the senate with Bernie Sanders and of course I ran for president and was on that stage with him," she told the show's hosts"Bernie is really an extraordinary leader, one of the things that Bernie brought to not only the race but the national dialogue and discourse and was was this point about everyone having access to health care, and affordable health care and universal healthcare and Medicare for all and Bernie really pushed that conversation so that it became...
"I have a great deal of affection for him, and I believe that he is going to be an extraordinary president and the kind of President that we need at this moment, which is someone who has the ability to hold that office with a sense of dignity and a sense of kindness and empathy, but also address the challenges," she said.
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