What a joke.
A giggling Vice President Kamala Harris vowed not to “sleep the night away” after her crushing loss in the presidential election, but to continue her political career.
“You all know me because we've spent long hours, long days, months and years together,” Harris said Friday, adding to the tradition of signing the vice president's desk drawer. he said with a laugh as he completed the task.
“It's not in my nature to spend the night quietly, so don't worry about that,” she said.
The outgoing veteran added her signature next to former vice presidents including former Vice President Dick Cheney, Joe Biden and Walter Mondale. She is the first woman and second minority to serve as vice president.
The desk drawer signing ceremony dates back to the 1940s, and her desk has been used by every vice president since Lloyd B. Johnson.
Harris, 60, declined to discuss her next plans, but it is rumored that she is considering running again for governor of California, where current party leader Gavin Newsom has a term limit.
“It's a job that cares about our country,” she said of the vice presidency. “This is the work of understanding that we hold these offices in the trust of the people with a duty and responsibility to uphold the Constitution of the United States and uphold our oaths of honor.”
Since her loss to President-elect Donald Trump, Ms. Harris has remained largely silent, appearing only at major events such as the administration's response to the California wildfires and presiding over the certification of her defeat in Congress on January 6. Served.
She has previously hinted at pursuing a political career.
“We will continue this fight in the voting booths, in the courts, and in the squares,” she declared in her concession speech in November.
Harris took over the reins from President Biden about 107 days before Election Day and was sworn in as the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party.
In the end, Trump won all seven battleground states, becoming the first Republican presidential candidate in 20 years to win the popular vote.
Meanwhile, Mr. Biden, 82, has publicly suggested he might have won had Democrats not thrown him out of the top of the race with a last-minute endorsement of Ms. Harris.
“It's presumptuous to say that, but I think so.” Biden told USA Today Earlier this month, he admitted he didn't know if he would last another four years as commander-in-chief, but pointed to polling data.
During the transition, Harris neglected to give Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and his family a tour of the Naval Observatory mansion. CBS News reported.
Mr. Vance's team reportedly asked questions about the level of child protection needed at the Queen Anne-style mansion after Mr. Trump's victory. Vance, 40, has three children.
