Vice President-electKamala Harrisis opening up about the road ahead for Americans.
Harris, 56, makes herVoguecover debutfor the magazine’s upcoming February issue, and for the cover image, the former California Senator, who is dressed in a black blazer, color-coordinated pants and white top, poses in her signature footwear:Converse sneakers.
The background she’s standing in front of is also a nod to her history. Paying tribute to the sorority she joined at Howard University, she’s pictured standing in front of an apple green and salmon pink background, which are the colors of Alpha Kappa Alpha.
Another photo from the cover shoot shows Harris smiling while wearing a powder blue suit.
For the cover story, Harris spoke about how she and President-electJoe Bidenwill makebattling the coronavirus pandemictheir top priority during theirfirst 100 days in office. “The first line of approach has to be to get control of this pandemic,” she told the magazine.
“We think about the first 100 days in terms of what we need to do to support mayors and governors and local officials around their distribution and their public health systems,” Harris added. “When we get control of this pandemic, that’s going to be a critical factor in being able to reopen our economy.”
“At the risk of oversimplifying it, you don’t meet hate with hate,” Harris said. “You don’t meet one line of division with another line of division. We believe that the vast majority of American people don’t agree with that approach, don’t accept it, and don’t like it.”
Reflecting on thehistoric victory speechshe gave last year, Harris recalled the “great responsibility” she felt to not only be the first woman vice president but also the first Black person and first person of Asian descent to hold the office.
“It was very important for me to speak to the moment, and the moment includes understanding that there is a great responsibility that comes with being a first,” she said.
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.Tasos Katopodis/Getty
Speaking toVogue, former First LadyMichelle Obamasaid of Harris, “this is a woman who knows what she’s doing.”
“Vice President Harris has already been the ‘first’ many times in her career,” Mrs. Obama said. “It can’t be about trying to please everybody or prove to certain people you’re good enough for the job. And the vice president wouldn’t be where she is today if she let that kind of thing get to her.”
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As for her relationship with Biden, Harris said that the former vice president has confidence she will make the perfect “partner for him.”
In addition to being “raised the same way, with the same values” when it comes to “family and hard work,” Harris said that she will never hold back from sharing her opinions with Biden.
“[I] will always speak truth, always give him my opinion, which will be based on fact and knowledge and life experience, and do it in a way that allows him, when he makes a decision, to make it with full information about the impact—and he has asked me to do that,” she shared.
source: people.com
