Vice President Kamala Harris has retreated from the public spotlight since her resounding loss to President-elect Donald Trump two weeks ago.
As Democrats reel from a Republican takeover of Washington, Harris traveled to Kalaoa, Hawaii, on Tuesday evening, capping a postelection period in which she has shifted back into the background of the Biden administration.
President Joe Biden, who ceded the spotlight after he was pressured into ending his 2024 reelection bid, has resumed his role on the world stage with international meetings at the G20 and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation this past week. He will celebrate his 82nd birthday on Wednesday, and some of his allies say Harris may be all but forgotten.
“She’s never been the party leader,” one Democratic strategist close to the White House said. “She couldn’t get through a primary on her own, so it’s fitting that she’d slink off to Hawaii while the party falls apart.”
Harris has appeared in public just a handful of times following her 2024 electoral loss to Trump, including her Nov. 6 concession speech at Howard University.
National pundits have thoroughly dissected her campaign, and critics on both sides of the aisle have openly questioned her campaign’s mismanagement of a historic war chest. Harris reportedly spent more than $1.5 billion in just 15 weeks on the campaign trail.
The Washington Examiner previously reported that Harris’s spending bonanza, an average in excess of $100 million per week, included upwards of $654 million on advertising. Backed by celebrities who showed up at her events, Harris’s campaign paid $1 million for Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions as the talk show mogul campaigned for her.
None of Harris’s campaign shortfalls, however, have quelled speculation about her political future.
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