Kamala Harris and a High-Risk,
High-Reward Presidential Resume
Posted By: NorthernDog, 6/7/2021 10:30:30 AM
Is Kamala Harris drawing the shortest straws in the White House? This week, President Joe Biden announced that Harris would lead the administration’s effort to protect voting rights, a task he immediately said would “take a hell of a lot of work.” (Snip) Yet for a history-making politician with big ambitions, Harris has adopted an early agenda that has left some Democrats fretting about the future of a politician who is already positioned as a presidential-nominee-in-waiting. Both immigration and voting rights are politically fraught problems with no easy solutions. Democrats’ expansive election legislation has faltered in the Senate, with moderate
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She has already reached a dead end - boxed in with thorny issues and no ability to connect to anyone beyond the Identity-Politics fanatics.