In conversation with MollyJongFast, Vice President Kamala Harris discusses protecting abortion rights post-Roe, immigration, and her hopes to “create a path and widen the path for others.” Photographed by Gillian Laub. 🔗:
went). Harris told me about her relationship with López Obrador. “I’ve been, as vice president, to 14 countries, and the trip to Mexico and then his travels here, we’ve gotten to know each other. Mexico wants to be considered, rightly, as a partner on this issue because so many of the migrants that we’re seeing coming from Central America are coming through Mexico.
“The problem here is that we don’t have a Congress that is willing to actually approach this in a reasonable way,” she responded. And “ultimately,” she added. “Congress has to act.” One of the favorite DC parlor games is to speculate on the relationship between the president and vice president, with Politicothis week on a forthcoming book describing tensions between the two offices. Harris, however, only spoke favorably of her experience with Biden.
“It’s a great relationship. We get on so well. We’re real partners. We have a lot in common that people would know,” she said. “Family is very important to both of us. We are both of us lifelong public servants and really care about real people. I started my career, and most of my career was in local and state government. He started in local government, so he and I will often be almost singing in unison about, what does this mean to real people? We both feel very strongly about that.
, I told her there was something meaningful about having her husband, who is Jewish, living in the Naval Observatory. “We had a big Hanukkah party last night,” Harris told me, while also mentioning she believed the couple was the first to put a mezuzah on the house of the vice president. “When we put up the mezuzah, my in-laws came, and they’re originally from Brooklyn, and they are exactly what you would know and expect,” Harris said.“Oh, yes.
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