# What happened to Kamala Harris? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [June 14, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883 "2024-06-14T17:22:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/21 "2024-06-14T20:44:09Z")
Kamala was just recently in the Seattle area, helping fundraise for Biden’s campaign. So I mean, she was in the news for me as they warned about a bit of extra traffic during her visit. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/22 "2024-06-14T21:11:45Z")
Ironic that you posted this on the day after the _Washington Post_ prints “In calling out Trump, Harris finds her mission: No one is better equipped to take down felon Trump than the vice president.” She is finally coming into her own. > **[Opinion | In calling out Trump, Harris finds her mission](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/13/kamala-harris-trump-conviction-hush-money/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzE4MzM3NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE5NzE5OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTgzMzc2MDAsImp0aSI6ImRlZTk4MzZhLTU1YzEtNGIwNS04YjI4LWNiODg2MDI4NzI0ZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI0LzA2LzEzL2thbWFsYS1oYXJyaXMtdHJ1bXAtY29udmljdGlvbi1odXNoLW1vbmV5LyJ9.b8NJlzIf-HVhgBAws_cbHjjzNIm7_Ve0QEVW4Cg8TC0&itid=gfta)** > > No one is better equipped to take down felon Donald Trump than the vice president. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/23 "2024-06-14T21:17:26Z")
“The White House said Harris would attend the meeting in Lucerne on June 15.” Tomorrow, June 15. > **[Kamala Harris will represent the US at a Swiss 'peace summit' for Ukraine](https://apnews.com/article/harris-biden-zelenskyy-ukraine-peace-china-4f3bc131992446dd6b5b01acaf6aa78c)** > > Vice President Kamala Harris will represent the U.S. at this month’s Swiss-organized global peace summit on the war in Ukraine promoted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/24 "2024-06-14T21:25:06Z")
A photo of Harris at the peace summit: [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/d/d5/How_not_to_be_seen%21%21%21.jpg) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/d/d5/How_not_to_be_seen%21%21%21.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/25 "2024-06-14T21:33:48Z")
Not a new sentiment… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hUnHZAUR6hE/hqdefault.jpg ""Whatever Became of You, Hubert?" Tom Lehrer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUnHZAUR6hE) ---
**Author:** ![XOldiesJock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ec9cab/32.png) [@XOldiesJock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XOldiesJock)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/26 "2024-06-14T21:43:37Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > _She came off as very confident and sure of herself. She’ll make a fine president if necessary._ Was that the Jimmy Kimmel interview? That’s the one I saw, and she presented herself exactly as you describe. They need to put her out more so that the public can see and hear her. I would have no issue with her as Commander in Chief, should it ever come to that. She’s a smart, capable, well-spoken (multi-racial) woman. No wonder the right hates her so much. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/27 "2024-06-14T22:09:39Z")
She was the one who announced the push to eliminate medical debt from credit reporting, not Biden. I assumed that was not a coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/28 "2024-06-14T22:14:18Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > She had little to show for her time in the Senate, She has cast 33 tie-breaking votes in the Senate. What more do you expect from her? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/29 "2024-06-14T22:22:11Z")
I saw her recently in an interview in front of a live audience. She was actually looking and sounding. . .presidential, at least compared to her former smirky, laconic persona of four years ago. It made me wonder if Biden has been grooming her to take over early in his second term. As in he wins, stays in office for a token amount of time, then abdicates. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/30 "2024-06-14T22:52:16Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > She has cast 33 tie-breaking votes in the Senate. What more do you expect from her? Protect the space-time continuum while based in a school bus? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/31 "2024-06-14T23:06:49Z")
MAGAts talk a lot about that. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/32 "2024-06-14T23:13:50Z")
And here I thought I was a thought leader. Doesn’t seem like a bad idea, though. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/33 "2024-06-14T23:19:42Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Doesn’t seem like a bad idea, though. It’s a terrible idea. People will be angry if that happens, because they voted for Biden, not Harris. But if something happens to Biden, that’s different. Of course, there will be whispers that she bumped him off, but 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2024, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/34 "2024-06-14T23:22:18Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > And nothing was heard of either of them again. The way I heard it was _the latter_ was never heard from again. ---
**Author:** ![phs3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phs3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phs3)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/35 "2024-06-15T01:32:56Z")
I was scrolling through to see if I was the only one who remembered this. Thanks for saving me the trouble of posting it. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2024, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/36 "2024-06-15T06:22:10Z")
Ed Snowden tweeted something along the lines of the OP recently. Must be talking points from his handlers. ---
**Author:** ![jshore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@jshore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jshore)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/37 "2024-06-16T00:26:30Z")
Yeah…This was exactly where my mind went too. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/38 "2024-06-16T00:56:14Z")
Today she’s in Switzerland, representing the U.S. at a summit conference about Ukraine. There are 92 countries attending, so it’s a fairly big deal. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/39 "2024-06-16T01:51:50Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Cheney off course was news worthy but for dripping evil. And shooting people in the face. But I think that @Hermitian’s point stands; for the most part, Quayle, Gore, Biden, and Pence weren’t in the news for the stuff they did in their capacity as VP; it was almost always extracurricular stuff. Cheney and HW Bush were somewhat out of their lanes in terms of the activities they engaged in as VP and as a result were more newsworthy. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883/40 "2024-06-16T02:47:23Z")
> [@Hermitian](#): > > I feel like Pence, Biden, and Cheney (going back to 2001) were all so much more visible… From my memory: Cheney was visible when he was shooting guys in the face while drinking, and then making them apologize later for getting in the way of his gun. Pence was visible because he was always following Trump around, gazing at him adoringly. Biden as has been mentioned was in the news whenever he made a verbal gaffe. So Harris does not shoot guys in the face, does not follow Biden around gazing adoringly, and does not make verbal gaffes that make the news. In other words, she’s a normal VP [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-kamala-harris/1002883.md?page=3)