dajo9 said:
10 years as Attorney General or Senator of California. Kamala Harris is plenty qualified to be VP and she is doing a good job.
As far as I can tell the only responsibility of the VP is to be alive if the president dies or becomes incapacitated and in that respect Harris has not yet been tested.
Occasionally VPs can take quite important roles legislatively or otherwise - we've seen that with Biden, Cheney, Gore and Bush but many do essentially nothing. I would say at this point Harris is in the latter camp along with Pence.
The people claiming that she is doing anything wrong are mostly racist, misogynist or both. They didn't criticize Pence for doing naught except making excuses for Trump and yet somehow they've now determined that the VP should be performing miracles on the daily.
Maybe she will be the driving force behind voting reform or some other big legislation, in which case she could be seen as a quite consequential VP. Until then she's a pretty typical VP doing her constitutional duty and little more.
While I think she could make a capable president - she's intelligent, strong (I enjoyed a lot of her debate performances) and interesting - unfortunately I don't think she's going to get the chance. In part because of bigotry, she's just not that well liked by many. Likeability is quite important in politics - see Clinton, Hillary - and unfortunately for Harris she doesn't seem to be spiking there. She's not really helping to overcome those challenges with her VP performance so I suspect she will need to serve in some other capacity either in a future administration or in some statewide California office. I could see her running the FBI or DOJ or perhaps she would take a SCOTUS position which would a pretty interesting exit for her.
