Vice President Kamala Harris took center stage in a long-winded Vogue interview conducted last week on the day former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney endorsed her.
Harris spoke about the war in Gaza, how she couldn’t reach her husband when she got the Democratic nomination because he was in a SoulCycle class, and her path to being at the top of the ticket, among other topics. The interview is yet another interview in a media blitz Harris has spearheaded over the past week.
First lady Jill Biden took the cover of Vogue herself in July, several weeks before her husband dropped out of the presidential race.
The magazine set the scene for Harris’s arrival in Wisconsin and noted small details, such as Harris’s introduction to the author, before diving into a topic where the Democrat has faced opposition: the war in Gaza.
Harris suggested there should be more nuance to an observer’s view on the war. She’s been a proponent of a two-state solution.
“There’s been a language and a conversation around what’s been happening, particularly around Israel and Gaza, that suggests that this is binary. It’s not,” she said. “You’re not either for this one or for that one.”
“On Oct. 7, 1,200 people were massacred, including hundreds of young people at a concert. Women were horribly raped,” she said. “And far too many Palestinians have been killed.”
Harris also recounted her struggles reaching her husband after learning President Joe Biden would be dropping out of the race and endorsing her. “I’m like, where is he? Somebody find him! Why isn’t he answering?” she said. “And I could not reach him for the world because he was in a SoulCycle class.”
Emhoff told Vogue that a friend told him, “I think you need to see this,” about the news of Biden’s withdrawal from the race. He said Harris then got ahold of him and said, “‘Where the eff were you?’”
The article then recounted Harris’s upbringing before springing forward to her run for San Francisco district attorney. The vice president was polling in the single digits before rising as a “coalition builder” who played to the center.
“It was quite remarkable,” former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said. The congresswoman had supported the incumbent in the race. “She had a fresh approach, a new approach, and she won.”
The article closes on Harris’s campaign event with Oprah Winfrey, describing the vice president’s entry on the stage with the media mogul: “The crowd springs to its feet, the stagehand gives a go-sign, and Harris rushes forward, into the light.”
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Vogue is one of several media appearances Harris has made in recent weeks. She talked with Bill Whitaker on 60 Minutes on Oct. 7, with the host grilling Harris on what type of firearm she owns and her answering that she owns a Glock.
Then softer media appearances include interviews on The View and The Howard Stern Show on Oct. 8, along with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Oct. 9. Harris also took part in a Univision town hall on Thursday in Las Vegas. With the election in its closing weeks, Harris has kept herself in the public mind.
