The choice was not so executed expected, Kamala Harris needed a new plan. Late at night on November 8, 2016 meet the US senator his newly elected campaign team in a gray gray room in the home to Los Angeles, where he currently winning his party as the most democratic the unexpected victory of President Donald mourning trump card. “This is something sh-t,” Harris said plaintively, describe a godson who would come in tears for her. Members of staff faces were serious and a siren wailed in the background while groping for words to describe what he was feeling. “We have to figure out how to go there and give people a sense of hope,” he said. , The four years since that night those eventful for America was, for the United States Senate and Harris, 11 August tapped as vice presidential candidate of the Democratic Party. The ambitious pol won his first national office that day waiting for a confirmation of the president Hillary Clinton a Supreme Court and Government, craft comprehensive immigration reform and pass legislation to help change the climate address. Instead, they found me in the Trumps Washington, futile crusade against polarizing candidates of the president, especially for political victories, and it does not take a long walk to oust him. time Harris’ in the Senate is a relatively unexplored chapter of his record. Control their origin during his presidential race he focused on his time as a prosecutor and positioning campaign, both of which drew criticism from the left. On the nearby geological time scale of the Senate, their time, there is only a moment, and started for the presidency just two years after their arrival. But Harris’ Senate Profile highlights what brings Biden campaign and what kind of vice president could, if his choice. It also raises questions about what kind of national leaders they can be. Harris became famous in the Senate for his performance in front of the camera. Colleagues, assistants and observers of the Senate describe a tough and resolute head unit, effective, proven viral moments as well with their interrogations of witnesses. “The Senate is a place where you can sit and be quiet for three or four terms, and then, after 20 or 30 years, they could attract the attention of pay,” Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, who was the deputy President says candidate four years ago. “But Kamala has really made a mark.” Off camera is more difficult to define Harris. Worked policy and legislation to move forward, play an important role in the landmark 2018 bipartisan planning penal reform and continuity pastoralism. Allies say they quickly learned on the job. But it lacked a signature because of them, and tried to find important to their base to other democratic questions such as climate, health care and national security. He struck some observers as do all things to all people at the same time be progressive and moderate principles and compromises, a partisan warrior and pragmatic bid of work. His defenders say that her thin record and evolving positions are the natural result of their experience: junior senator from California was the first time in a legislative capacity. Those who have worked with her say Harris thinks problems as a lawyer, confident style that can appear indecisive, but in fact reflects an active intellect. His fans also the background of sexism and racism in the criticism of them as attention, who are seeking or opportunistic quality convenient conditions for a political career. The old Senate “horse workhorse or heuristic” show is a commonplace to the dysfunctional politics of today’s polarized Congress and unfit. But their tenure reflects the same difficulties, which eventually sentenced her presidential campaign to failure: a personality privilege on the matter and the lack of a clearly articulated vision. Whether it was an opening or political attitudes, the effect was the same. What has never been in doubt, all observers say it was his instinct for combat. That night in 2016, was abandoned by his campaign staff about to cry, Harris outlined a path forward. “I think our country is actually not over,” he said. “But it’s a different kind of campaign. It’s not about winning an office. But it will be a campaign to fight for all that motivated to run for this office in the first place.” The questions came fast, and Jeff Sessions has started stuttering. It ‘was in the month of June 2017 and held Harris then Attorney General to ask the interruption about his contacts with the Russians during the 2016 campaign “I’m not able to be quickly rushed to them,” he lamented. “It ‘makes me nervous.” It ‘was an attempt at levity of Sessions’, but the comment went viral quickly, as the liberals enjoyed the sight of a Trump in Harris apparatchiks squirm view. Episodes like these were business card collecting Harris as Senator, hundreds of thousands of views online. They would continue Similar attention to their investigation in September 2018 gained since then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and in May 2019 the successor interrogations, William Barr. Kavanaugh looked positively baffled when asked, “Can you think of any laws that the government, the power to make decisions about the male body” Harris was a political star when she arrived in the Senate, but the hearings have helped cement their reputation. In an interview in September last year, Harris said their interrogators TIME reflect their frustration. “I’m new to the US Congress, and see these things closely, E ‘shocking lack of consistency and responsibility,” he said. (The Biden-Harris campaign did not respond to a request to interview for this article.) Republicans sometimes accuse you of being too partisan. In the first two occasions, interrupted the late Senator John McCain and turn to answer their questions ready for can not be witnesses. These exchanges, which in turn increases blamed on his profile fans like McCain and other Republicans are trying to silence them. Some of their questions seemed suggestively at the time did not bear fruit, as when asked Kavanaugh about his contacts with Trump lawyer’s office staff. Their commissioning Kavanaugh discussion also drew the ire of Trump, who called him “evil”, “angry” and “crazy” because, in addition to the ticket. But Harris’ colleagues say that she has not done the stands; more than many lawmakers who give speeches chew half of their available time, it will actually be used to elicit information from often hostile witness hearings. “For all the talents of members of Congress, still shocked me how often a member to get to your question within the first two or three minutes,” said Sen. Brian Schatz Hawaii. “Kamala without sounding rushed, without appearing hostile, can dismantle an opponent with a smile on his face.” Harris’ performances heard were well suited to a Senate that has done little traditional law in recent years. “It ‘s such a strange time in the Senate, because no one is really something,” Adam Jentleson, a former adviser says former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. “It is not because there are no real offers time skills assessed people deal making, and those who do negotiated some mostly done at the executive level,” says Jentleson, Elizabeth Warren has supported the presidential primary and a book about Senate dysfunction writes. As a democratic “are usually vote only against Trump stuff all the time, it’s not a hit on her just the way the institution now”. The grid were also at the center because they made the Democrats. They showed their mastery of modern media environment key factor in a campaign against Trump. The introduction Harris as his running mate on August 12, Biden praised their “ask the tough questions that need to be done and did not stop until they respond.” With the cameras off for Harris’ disappears judicial board, Democratic senators for example, reveals a warm, fun and affordable that connects easily bring her star power. In caucus meetings, they say, it makes them important framework for policy discussions by clicking on his experience as a person of color elected one of only six black senator in US history and drawing as a child of immigrants. Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon recalled the looks. Harris as they met for the first time, he is 6 feet. 4 ‘5 ft. 3 -and cracked, With you, I’ll need a ladder! ‘ Senator Mazie Hirono “? Kamala, you are going to Iowa” Hawaii was walking out of the room one day last summer when he saw Harris in a car and exclaimed, Harris replied with a laugh: “I’m fcking to move to Iowa” – in exchange, which has a reporter and then put t-shirts sold by a boutique Iowa was heard. “Kamala made sure that I have one of these shirts,” said Hirono. Aides admit Harris asks a tough boss, hard-working people around them and reward them with ferocious loyalty in return. At the beginning of their mandate a recall, Harris has held an event in a Syrian restaurant in California ban travelers from Muslim countries outside Trump. After that they put their employees to inform down, but held and insisted that everyone take a breather and eat over their lives and talking. He worked hard to assemble a diverse workforce, it is not an easy thing for an institution that has historically been predominantly white and male. Many aides recall devotion Harris’ to their former press Tyrone Gayle, a fellow descendants of Jamaican immigrants, 2018. Harris in October of colorectal cancer died mother died in 2009 from the same disease, and are treated with affection Gayle breast when his illness relapsed. “He found a way to treat it, what Tyrone did with so much compassion and love, but he also kept to a very high standard and appreciated,” his widow Beth Foster Gayle on CNN recalled recently. “He did not just go to him.” The day of his death, Harris dropped his work in the Senate his family in the hospital in New York City to come, holding his hand and made him smile. Until today is her Senate office with pennants Clemson hung in his honor. Harris drew praise from Republicans and Democrats alike for his work in the Intelligence Committee. It was “a quick study” and “very effective”, the former chairman of the GOP panel, Richard Burr of North Carolina, he told BuzzFeed last year. The committee is known for its unusual levels of both privacy and collegiality. Because so much is going on with his work behind closed doors, “there is no printing, is to shine and does not really break along partisan lines,” he says the top committee Democrat Mark Warner of Virginia. Harris task ‘made more difficult by the fact that she was close to retirement fund, he said. “And ‘the end of the line, a place where most of the questions have already been asked, but they would always find something he had not asked enough depth there down, or comes with a new line of questioning.” During the presidential campaign, Harris’ criminal justice records has drawn harsh criticism from civil liberties advocates and many on the left, which calculates that instead as a prosecutor in a criminal and unequal system to try to solve the perpetual problem. In the Senate, it focused much of their energy policy on criminal justice reform. The first bill was introduced to give the right to a lawyer in proceedings on immigration a hint people. (The story of me is gone from home, but no more than in the Senate.) They have worked with Republican Senator Rand Paul on a bail reform bill, states would encourage the use of cash bail practices to reduce poverty that opponents say criminalized and contributes to uneven results. (This bill has not progressed.) He worked with the Democratic Cory Booker and Republican Tim Scott, the other two members of the Senate on blacks antilynching legislation, which is currently blocked, despite the almost unanimous support. Along with Booker was a key factor in the prison and sentencing federal law reform that Trump was signed in 2018, one of the few bipartisan successes of his presidency. Even their proposals are, like many stalled, Booker says, has brought new thinking to the tradition-bound halls of Congress. “A lot of times when you bring a new idea, you need to get people with him,” he says, noting that these efforts bear fruit years to complete. “Kamala came to the Senate and made an impact.” Harris and Booker on democratic reform law police have been working this summer protests races Justice. It ‘was the house, and the senators that there is an effort in good faith, a compromise Republicans was perhaps assist in the location. But Senate Republicans have offered their own behalf rather than on the floor, instead, enter without the possibility for the committee stage, and Democrats blocked progression. “It is unfortunate that the majority leader [Mitch] McConnell was not willing that the legislation to provide adequate hearing, because I think she was very effective in making the case,” said Democratic Senator Jeanne Shaheen. But Scott, the author of the Republican bill threw the democratic politics. In an interview in July with time played on Harris ‘position Veep-Stakes and said:’ I hope the presidential politics choice running mates in the democratic way the Senate does not stand on the table. Defenders ‘Harris’ say their shift to the left on the criminal justice system does not reflect the political opportunity of a primary candidate trying to please the base, but the evolution national dialogue on a topic completely. Proponents say that worked with her on the subject, she was busy, material and realistic. “I’m a bit ‘frustrated by a lot of criticism of its development on Crime Problems,” says Holly Harris, a Republican lawyer who serves as executive director of the Justice Action Network. “We do not ask a lot of male sponsors bill to explain its development. We are grateful to have their support.” Harris had their base on issues of finding a more difficult time as far away from their own experience. to fight their election campaign, especially with the central health issue: as a senator, he co-sponsored the single legislation taxpayer Bernie Sanders, but after months of contradictory statements, it was a plan that the private insurance system would receive . “The legislation is very different from an Attorney General to be,” said one adviser to another Democratic senator. “Not to be a veteran in this issue debates, have a thing does not have to know the intricacies like Medicare for all.” Climate change was another issue on which Harris assertive obtained over time. She was not signed to take an original co-sponsor of the Left Green New Deal and money election promise by the fossil fuel industry. But climate activists were skeptical as a presidential candidate, especially if she was the only major candidate not immediately commit to a dedicated to the theme of September Municipality CNN. After criticism, he changed his mind and in his segment of 33 minutes has promised to guarantee the end of the filibuster where climate legislation Republicans held a fracking ban and called for the continuation of fossil energy companies, supported. “Everyone was pretty much in a progressive direction advantage,” says Julian NoiseCat Braver, an environmental activist, vice president of policy and strategy in the progressive group data to progress. “And the question was, how far they were willing to go?” He had followed the initial trepidation of pure intake of typical positions of Harris’ approach to high-profile issue. Harris then found a niche that fits their comfort zone: environmental justice and environmental litigation. In July it would introduce collaboration with representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Equity Act a climate that requires environmental legislation “fairness Score”, which assesses how it would affect vulnerable communities to maintain and create new burdens for official regulations. Your office has bring a new version of the proposal just days before it was announced as VP Biden. “It is not driven by a desire to protect the polar bear,” says RL Miller, a California Democrat activist and political director of the Hawks vote climate, a group that advocates the aggressive climate change policy. “In addition to the oil field of urban life in Los Angeles it is driven by the low-income African-American desire to protect people.” Lack of fixed positions on many Harris’ questions helped her disappearance campaign. But as running mate, this flexibility can be an advantage. Colleagues and supporters say passionate, but not doctrinaire, an open team player with other good ideas. Even some of the progressives who view with suspicion Harris expressed hope that their means of flexibility can be nudged to the left. The challenge for Harris will be a national figure in this role performance it will demonstrate that flexibility is pragmatism, not opportunism. As Vice President Biden has led the point of view of an old foreign policy fox in the White House and served as a sort of Senate Whisperer for President Barack Obama, who has spent as Harris, just four years in the room. Biden, who fetishized the Senate as an institution, is unlikely to assign the task of his second in command. But some recent experience left Harris hopes more prone Biden with McConnell plays hardball, they feel abused the procedural rules that the process of traditional policies to destroy. “I see nothing in his record in the Senate who are not highly progressive beats,” says Jentleson aide, former Reid. “But the rubber hit the road on topics like the filibuster. If you want to advance a very progressive policy, and he stopped, do the reform to the Senate for doing things?” Aside from Harris’ campaign promise to end the obstruction to pass a climate law, neither they nor Biden is committed to significant change Senate rules, a set, which is very controversial in the chamber on both sides of the aisle. Without these changes, it will be an uphill battle to adopt articulated around political agenda overwhelming Democratic convention this summer, even if the party wins a majority in the Senate in November. If Harris’ time in the deadlock body has led to drastic measures to argue? If Biden and Harris are opened in January next year, as Kamala Harris, the US Senate regarding could be the issue on which presidential legacy dependent Biden. -With reporting by Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Justin Worland and Julia Zorthian this seems to be August 31, 2020 issue of time. Picture copyright by Carolyn Kaster AP
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