Harris ran on Biden’s foreign policy legacy. It was not popular.
When President Biden dropped out of this year’s election, Kamala Harris seemed in many ways his opposite. Biden is from the northeast, Harris Californian; Biden is elderly, Harris energetic; Biden is a Washington insider, Harris a relative newcomer to the city.
When Biden’s polling numbers reached their nadir, many thought Harris’s personal differences made her the candidate who could defeat Trump. Yet Harris put little daylight between herself and Biden’s administration, especially on foreign policy.
Asked on ABC’s “The View” if there was anything she would have done differently than Biden, Harris was stumped. “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” she said.
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Read more of Ransom’s article in The Hill
Ransom Miller is a research associate at the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group.
This post is part of Independent America, a research program led out by Jonathan Guyer, which seeks to explore how US foreign policy could better be tailored to new global realities and to the preferences of American voters.
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