For Joe Biden, selecting Kamala Harris meant picking a specific vision not only for his presidency, but for what comes after
Harris wasn’t Democratic primary voters’ choice for what comes next, but she just got the biggest vote of Joe Biden’s career. Photo: John Locher/AP/Shutterstock A few weeks into Joe Biden’s search for his running-mate this spring, his closest friends and advisors started talking about how he was looking for someone with whom he could replicate his exceptionally close relationship with Barack Obama.
What was often overlooked during her own presidential run, however, was how neatly Harris’s political style and ideology matched, or ran parallel to, Biden’s. It was easy to miss if you were focused on her debate-stage clash with him. . But both Harris and Biden are consensus-builders eager to search out the center of the Democratic Party.
There were shorter-term concerns, too, of course: If elected, the pair will almost certainly have to oversee one of the biggest financial and health recoveries in history, and Harris’s four years in the Senate gave her a leg up over Susan Rice, the Obama administration national security advisor who was widely seen as coming in second place in Biden’s mind.
The Biden camp polled voters on their impressions of his running-mate choices, and Obama political architect David Axelrod wrote on Tuesday that their research showed Harris was seen as among the most qualified to serve on Day One — a point she often made in her own speeches, and to which Biden was especially drawn.
The most important voice in Biden’s ear — Obama’s — was also supportive. The former president has long been open about his esteem for Harris, and a number of his top former aides made no secret to Biden allies of their preference for Harris, to whom Obama had once offered the job of attorney general. It’s one reason that, as Biden worked through his options throughout the summer, he kept coming back to Harris, said a senior Democrat close to Obama.
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