Kamala Harris Failed voting rights legislation, the 2022 midterm, COVID and weak voting sparked a flurry of questions during a less-than-usual network interview on Thursday morning for him and the president’s one-year anniversary. Joe Bideninaugurated.
Asked about the voting rights law, which was defeated in the Senate on Wednesday evening, the vice president refrained from listing initiatives passed in the first year, including a bipartisan infrastructure law.
‘President blamed a lot yesterday’ Republican For the failure to pass some of these key initiatives. But, you know, as you well know, you have a 50-50 tie in the United States Senate. Did the administration fail to control its initiatives to meet the political reality?’ TODAY host Savannah Guthrie asked Harris.
‘In other words, should you have been more willing to compromise than to try to get everything’ Democrats horse riding? These initiatives failed because the Democrats were not united, let alone Republicans. Looking back this year, was it an error?’
‘Well, when I look back this year, I think about things like the bipartisan infrastructure law. Administrations, both Democrats and Republicans, have tried for years to ‘start before Harris is cut’.
‘Well, doesn’t this show that Republicans were willing to help if the initiative was good?’ Guthrie posed.
Harris replied: ‘Please let me finish.’
Vice President Kamala Harris faced questions over a failed voting rights law, poor voting numbers, broken COVID promises and whether the 2022 election will be fair in a round of interviews on Thursday morning – the one-year anniversary of her inauguration.
Harris declined to answer questions asked by the Today show’s Savannah Guthrie about whether Democrats were to blame for a failed voting rights package in the Senate on Wednesday evening.
In the same interview, Harris declined to answer and shrugged off several questions about whether President Joe Biden believes the 2022 midterm elections will now be fair because the voting rights package will help the Senate pass. have failed.
During a back-and-forth with Guthrie, Harris asked the Today show host to allow her to answer questions, even if they were of a distracting nature.
When pushed into another interview with CBS Morning’s Gayle King on Thursday morning, Harris also asked what the administration would do to advance voting rights legislation.
‘I know last night was a very long night in the Senate,’ King said. ‘As expected, the Voting Rights Act did not pass last night, partly because of two members of your own party. But the president says he can take action to protect the right to vote. What specifically are you going to do?’
Harris also appeared on CBS Mornings on Thursday, where he was stressed out about what the administration plans to do to continue the fight for expanded voting rights.
After the Vice President gave a lengthy reply on why voting rights are important, King pushed for a straight answer.
‘So what are you going to do? I mean, you all put the matter very well in terms of what is at stake. And now here we are, and it didn’t happen. What would you do?’ he repeated.
“What we will do is that we will continue to fight to get the law passed because it is important,” he said. ‘So we’re not giving up on that.’
“And then the matter is to continue working through the Department of Justice, working on executive orders, which are suing these cases in different states because we believe they are a violation of the spirit of the Constitution. Of America. It will be about taking this conversation forward.