For four decades, Kamala Harris did not lose an election, rising relentlessly through the Democratic establishment of California. And when she did lose in 2019’s primary for the Democratic nomination for the presidency, she still came out a victor of sorts.
at the end of that congressional session. Harris became a senator on the same November evening that saw Trump take the White House.
Her selection as Biden’s running mate is a testament to her savvy approach to serving in the Senate. She did not immediately set about making friends with Republicans and crafting legislation, having seemingly grasped that as much as Americans bemoaned Washington’s unremitting gridlock, the Democratic voters who would be crucial to her future expected their elected representatives to battle Trump at every turn.
Harris questions witnesses as Cory Booker listens during Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. The impeachment of President Trump gave her more opportunities to excoriate Trump and his allies for what she and other Democrats called an abuse of power. And as the only Black woman in the Senate, she has served as her party’s spokesperson during the recent spate of anti-racism protests. A fight with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who had held up an anti-lynching bill,At the same time, she never developed a fully coherent political outlook of her own during her first term as a U.S. senator.
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