If Joe Biden is leading a campaign with a strong focus on white voters, Kamala Harris is the Minority Officer. The tandem distributed the electoral map. To him, the States of old industry and blue collar workers. For her, the regions where the mobilization of young people and minorities – Blacks, Latinos – can make a difference.
Nevada, Arizona, Texas. In her stages, the vice-presidential candidate likes to be preceded by a fanfare, modeled on those of student societies at black universities – like Howard University, where she studied in Washington. Percussions, brass: the opportunity to sketch some movements in rhythm. Message: Kamala is young. She has been 56 years since October 20, twenty-one younger than Joe Biden, eighteen younger than Donald Trump and five years younger than Mike Pence, the current vice president.
Bend to Biden discipline
Since her designation on the Democratic “ticket” in mid-August, the senator from California has made what looks like a flawless course. If she made people talk about her outfits, it was not about “pant suits”, Hillary Clinton’s pantsuits whose symbolism has been analyzed in the press for years, but about sports shoes. Converse All-Star that allow him to descend with relaxation the steps of the plane. The clips are relayed on Instagram by her sister, lawyer Maya Harris, former advisor to Hillary Clinton, and wife of Uber’s legal director, Tony West, and by her niece Meena Harris, also a lawyer, founder of the association Phenomenal Woman and former senior executive at Facebook. Eight million views on September 9 for the first descent from the plane of the “candidate-to-Converse” in Milwaukee (Wisconsin). Message: Kamala is cool.
A faultless, above all, on the political side. Those who feared to see her overtaken by her ambition, and encroach on the prerogatives of the candidate for the White House, were reassured. As she climbed aboard the Biden campaign, she left out part of her entourage – California family and advisers who had not performed miracles during the primaries – to bow to the discipline of Team Biden, under the role of “Second violin”, devolved to the vice-president, a fortiori to the candidate for the post.
During her October 7 debate in Salt Lake City against Mike Pence, Kamala Harris did not seek to spark any sparks. She was content to mark the point as soon as she could with the category of the electorate who seems to have deserted Donald Trump: women. “Mr. Vice-President: I have the floor”, she repeated each time – there were sixteen – that the interested party interrupted her. The debate was barely over when the Biden team put up a T-shirt for sale “I’m speaking”.
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