From a foreign policy perspective it’s extremely undesirable to have the President and VP provide different messages. Who should (foreign) diplomats listen to? Who should be send to peace negotiations if different members of the cabinet have different positions? I don’t think something like that has ever happened.
From a foreign policy perspective it’s extremely undesirable to have the President and VP provide different messages.
Harris is not the Secretary of State. This isn’t the GWB administration where the VP is calling the shots,either. Harris wields no power regarding foreign policy. There is no good reason for her to stick with Biden’s policy on this.
There’s certainly excuses and bad reasons, though.
She cannot do that unfortunately. She’s vice president in a government that explicitly doesn’t do that, and she can’t openly deviate while running.
Why not? What’s Biden gonna do? Fire her?
From a foreign policy perspective it’s extremely undesirable to have the President and VP provide different messages. Who should (foreign) diplomats listen to? Who should be send to peace negotiations if different members of the cabinet have different positions? I don’t think something like that has ever happened.
Harris is not the Secretary of State. This isn’t the GWB administration where the VP is calling the shots,either. Harris wields no power regarding foreign policy. There is no good reason for her to stick with Biden’s policy on this.
There’s certainly excuses and bad reasons, though.
Sadly didn’t stop Biden doing exactly that when he was VP and Obama/Hillary were trying to calm down bibi