The New Yorker:

The Vice-President is trying to cast herself as a leader and connect with voters who are not excited about the Democratic ticket.

By Peter Slevin

Kamala Harris arrived at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month with no good news to share with her European counterparts. The sixty-billion-dollar security package for Ukraine that President Joe Biden had promised was stalled in the House of Representatives, where the Republican Speaker, Mike Johnson, had sent the chamber into a two-week recess without scheduling a floor vote. And then came the news that Alexei Navalny, the charismatic Russian opposition leader, had died in prison. While awaiting official confirmation, Harris said, at the top of her remarks, “Whatever story they tell, let us be clear: Russia is responsible.”

As she laid out the stakes of Ukraine’s fight against Russia, she laid into Republicans who “embrace dictators” and ignore the United States’ commitments to its allies. “Let me be clear,” she said, tapping her fingers on the lectern. “That world view is dangerous, destabilizing, and, indeed, shortsighted. That view would weaken America and would undermine global stability and undermine global prosperity. President Biden and I, therefore, reject that view.” She went on to make a campaign-style list of the Administration’s accomplishments and ambitions.

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