Biden says Harris will cut her own path as president, and her perspective will be fresh and new
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Says Kamala’s perspective on our problems will be fresh and new
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday said Kamala Harris would “cut her own path” once she wins the 2024 election, allowing for more daylight between him and his vice president as she works to win over skeptical voters three weeks before Election Day.
“Kamala will take the country in her own direction, and that’s one of the most important differences in this election,” he said.
“Kamala’s perspective on our problems will be fresh and new. Donald Trump’s perspective old and failed and quite frankly, thoroughly totally dishonest.”
Biden’s comments may give Harris more license to stake out her own political and policy stances in the critical closing phase of the presidential race, and appear to go further to distance the two than Harris has herself. The vice president’s aides have privately expressed some frustration that the 81-year-old president has been too focused on his own legacy — and not the race to succeed him.
But Harris has of late faced increasing pressure to articulate how she’d govern differently from Biden, a question trickier than it seems on the surface.
While Biden’s favorability ratings remain underwater, some of the biggest pieces of his legislative agenda, from infrastructure to lowering the costs of some prescription drugs, are popular, and signaling any daylight with the president on foreign policy at a time of global crises could be seen as reckless.
