US Vice President Kamala Harris may not have won over America in her first two years in office, but she's staying put at President Joe Biden's side.
“If he did not think she was capable, he would not have picked her. But it is a question of consistently rising to the occasion,” said the former official, speaking on condition of anonymity. “I think his running for re-election is less about her and more about him, but I do think that she and the Democratic bench a factor.”
As vice-president, though, she has a 39% favorability rating, according to an average by polling aggregator RealClearPolitics, below Biden's 42.3%. Biden could lose crucial votes if he were to drop Harris, who is both the first Black and Asian-American US vice-president. Harris is expected to campaign vigorously, including with women and minority groups, constituencies with whom she has connected as vice-president.
“The vice-president's job really is to make sure that you carry the mission of the administration forward and she has done that very successfully around the country. Unfortunately ... I don't think she gets the credit in the public eye she deserves,” outgoing Labor Secretary Marty Walsh said.
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