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— 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
The Kamala Harris moment has arrived, by @CharlesMBlow.
Read: https://t.co/8NfgrUsNwH
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) April 18, 2024
Charles Blow, in the NYTimes — “The Kamala Harris Moment Has Arrived”: [gift link]
… Vice President Harris has served nearly a full term alongside President Biden, and she is moving into another moment when the political stars are aligned for her as the perfect messenger on a subject that has fixed Americans’ attention and is central in the 2024 presidential campaign: reproductive rights.
This time, her target is Donald Trump. And being in a position to go on the offensive is something of a reversal of fortune for a vice president who has endured withering — often unfair — attacks and who struggled to define herself in the role…
Criticisms of Harris have been relentless, ranging from legitimate challenges to her policy statements to ridiculous commentary about her laugh. Much of it has seemed tinged with gender bias.
And she remains a source of concern, a perceived vulnerability to Biden’s re-election. In March, the Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote that Harris should bow out for the sake of the country, absurdly comparing her to Sarah Palin in 2008.
Over and over in her failed run for this year’s Republican nomination, Nikki Haley pointed to the possibility of a future Harris presidency as a scare tactic, saying in an August interview on “Good Morning America”: “There is no way Joe Biden is going to finish his term. I think Kamala Harris is going to be the next president, and that should send a chill up every American’s spine.”
But the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and Republicans’ lust to enact increasingly regressive policies to restrict reproductive rights in states across the country have made Harris’s voice an essential one in the campaign.
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