She shattered all kinds of ceiling glass when Joe Biden made California’s junior senator his running mate and Harris was elected vice president. Part of the answer is simple: What happened to Harris is she became vice president. Virtually every vice president in modern history — save Dick Cheney, who played an unusually prominent role guiding defense and foreign policy under President George W. Bush — has looked smaller than when he or she accepted the position. No one like her — the first woman, first Black person, first Asian American elected vice president — has ever moved through Washington’s uppermost reaches. In the White House, the president has strived to make his vice president appear to be a full partner in the administration.

Source: Daily Sun November 14, 2021 10:01 UTC