Vice President Kamala Harris was rated the most liberal senator in 2019, further to the left than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), according to the GovTrack scorecard.
Harris, who chose to endorse Biden after President Joe Biden announced he would not seek reelection after all, was considered the most liberal senator before becoming vice president.
GovTrack said its ideological analysis assigns a score to lawmakers based on their legislative actions, including whether they sponsor or co-sponsor bills or resolutions that overlap with other lawmakers.
“This score, which of course takes into account only a small part of reality, can be interpreted as a left-right measure of the dominant ideological differences among members of Congress,” they explain.
On the full list of 100 senators for 2019, Harris was Scored She ranked 100th, earning the title of most left-leaning senator. To put it in perspective, Sanders was right behind her at 99th. Meanwhile, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) earned the title of most conservative senator that year.
A breakdown of the ratings shows Harris has joined bipartisan legislation least frequently compared to Senate Democrats, with only 15% of bills she co-sponsored being introduced by non-Democrats.
of break The report also found that Harris “serves the fewest committee positions compared to second-year senators (tied with one other person)” and “has the third-most absent votes compared to all senators.”
This stark reality comes as key Democratic figures, including Hillary Clinton and Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), have given Harris their full endorsement.
“Today, with great pride and boundless optimism for the future of our nation, I endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president of the United States,” Pelosi said in a statement. “My enthusiastic endorsement of Kamala Harris is official, personal and political.”
“I have known Kamala Harris for a long time and this brilliant prosecutor will sue convicted felon Donald Trump and his Project 2025 plan to take away our freedoms,” Clinton said Monday, posting a photo of the two together and urging Democrats to support Harris.
The New York Times Best-selling author Peter Schweitzer spoke about the realities of Harris’ political career during an appearance on the show Monday. Breitbart News DailyHe described her as having a history of “deeply appalling” activity as a prosecutor that showed “collective favoritism towards criminal networks and organisations with ties to political allies”.
“So my argument is that as a prosecutor, Kamala Harris did the same thing as the attorney general of California, which is use her position not to protect the vulnerable, but to protect the powerful who put her in political office,” he said.
