It's not goodbye, it's… Who are you again?
Vice President Kamala Harris is set to embark on a whirlwind farewell tour next week that will take her defeated 2024 Democratic presidential candidate to Asia, the Middle East and Europe in the final days of the Biden administration.
Harris, 60, will meet with foreign leaders and U.S. military officials in Singapore, Bahrain and Germany during her five-day visit, scheduled from Jan. 13 to Jan. 17, where she and Biden will meet. It will promote the accomplishments of the president during his only term in office. At the White House.
“During his visit, the vice president will discuss the achievements of the Biden-Harris administration in the region over the past four years, U.S. partnerships with other countries, the U.S. military's contributions to regional and global security, and enduring security. “There are national security interests of the United States,” the White House said in a statement Tuesday.
The White House announced that Second Gen. Doug Emhoff will accompany Harris on her final world tour as vice president and “engage with civil society, including religious leaders and military families.”
The voyage will allow Ms. Harris to remove Bahrain, which she has never visited, from her list of countries and make it an island in the Persian Gulf — that's how she pronounced it. “Beran” Just two years ago, it was the 22nd country she had traveled to on taxpayers' money.
She has previously visited Germany and Singapore as vice president.
Conservatives on social media mocked Harris for embarking on an overseas trip on her last day in office.
“Seriously, that wasn't in the text?” conservative columnist Liz Peek wrote in X, referring to the White House's announcement that Harris would tout the Biden administration's “accomplishments.”
“What is the ‘carbon footprint’ of this absurd and stupid trip?” chimed in another user.
“To know what we've done, we have to look at where we've been,” one joked, referring to
Harris has yet to reveal her post-White House plans, but she is preparing for a possible political comeback in the aftermath of her disastrous campaign against President-elect Donald Trump, who lost both the popular vote and the electoral college. He reportedly instructed his allies to leave behind. Universities, including all battleground states, despite raising over billions of dollars in campaign contributions.
of Politico report There is widespread speculation that the vice president is considering running for California governorship in 2026 or running for president again in 2028.
