The White House press office has not served as her most avid publicist. Spokesmen now reel off some statistics-she has visited 21 countries on 17 foreign trips, met with more than 150 leaders, and led the U.S. delegation at three Munich Security Conferences-but this doesn't mean much. Did she shake hands and read a speech, or did she engage in substantive diplomacy?
And though most of the positions that she has formed on foreign policy match those of Biden's, her slant is distinctive enough in some respects that the policies of a Harris presidency-on climate, on human rights, and in areas such as Africa and the Middle East-could be quite different.
One crucial fact: According to several officials, Harris has attended almost every National Security Council meeting and, more important still, almost every President's Daily Brief, during which a senior intelligence officer lays out, both in writing and in an oral presentation, the threats and other developments affecting U.S. interests across the world. Biden receives four or five PDBs a week.
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