Kamala Devi Harris is the 49th Vice President of the United States, the first woman and the first person of color to be elected to the position. However, following Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the candidacy, now as the virtual Democratic standard-bearer, she will face a history full of failures by officials in her position.
According to historical data, Of the 48 previous vice presidents, eight were successors to the presidency due to the death of the president in office, while only four managed to win the elections. in immediate succession.
According to CNN, 12 vice presidents have held the highest office in the United States, but the list is divided into two contexts, the first includes names like John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, Chester Arthur, Theodore Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, all of whom took command after the death of the president in office.
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However, the complementary list is shorter, only four names managed to succeed their immediate boss in the next administration: John Adams took over after George Washington’s administration; Thomas Jefferson succeeded John Adams; Martin Van Buren followed Andrew Jackson and George HW Bush continued after being Ronald Reagan’s vice president.
That is to say, This phenomenon has not been repeated since 36 years ago, in 1988, when George HW Bush won the White House as vice president.
Even the current president, Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s vice president, sought to succeed him in power, but his path was frustrated and Hillary Clinton competed in the elections, where she finally lost to Donald Trump in 2016.
For now, Kamala Harris has just over 100 days to break that curse, or else she will have to endure one of the most humiliating experiences in American politics: overseeing the counting of electoral votes in her role as vice president in a presidential election she lost.
However, over the past two decades, Harris appears to have accumulated some experience that could help her in this new mission, as a virtual presidential candidate, which will become official once the Democratic Convention announces it.
Before becoming vice presidentKamala Harris was elected attorney general of California in 2010, where she oversaw the largest state justice department in the country.
While In 2017, he was sworn into the United States Senate.where she pushed for legislation to fight hunger, offer rent relief, improve maternal health care, expand access to capital for small businesses, revitalize America’s infrastructure, and combat the climate crisis.
In 2010, Vice President Harris was elected Attorney General of California, where she oversaw the largest state justice department in the country. She took on those who took advantage of the American people, securing a $20 billion settlement for Californians whose homes had been foreclosed on and a $1.1 billion settlement for students and veterans.
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