"Given we are slugging towards year three of living through a plague, it would not be politically expedient for any politician to openly tout their ambitions in this climate of exhaustion and frustration. That's why it was unsurprising to read Vice President Kamala Harris stress to the Wall Street Journal in mid-December that she and President Biden have not discussed whether he plans to seek re-election."
"'I'm not going to talk about our conversations, but I will tell you this without any ambiguity: We do not talk about nor have we talked about re-election, because we haven't completed our first year and we're in the middle of a pandemic,' she explained. When asked if she assumed Biden would run again, Harris said, 'I'll be very honest: I don't think about it, nor have we talked about it.'"
The vice president has not been set up to thrive in her position and has done her public image no favors. The prolonged pandemic has made overt political ambition politically unwise as fatigue and frustration persist. Harris told the Wall Street Journal that she and President Biden have not discussed re-election because they have not completed their first year and are focused on pandemic response. Harris said she does not think about re-election. Staffing, communications, and positioning have contributed to a challenging public perception for the vice presidency.
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