Kamala Harris stopped exercising outdoors over fears that a 2021 video showing her running up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial would emphasize her age difference with Joe Biden.
A new profile of Harris portrays the Democratic nominee as unusually deferential to Biden in his early years as president, unlike the woman who easily clinched the 2024 nomination after her boss dropped out.
Harris, 59, received widespread positive reaction to the video showing her running up and down the memorial’s steps with husband Doug Emhoff. Some viewers even compared the masked exercise to the famous Rocky montage.
A fitness website He said he ‘did a spectacular cardio workout’ with Others praise her for ‘working for the American people’ while getting exercise.
But Harris did not relish the praise, the Wall Street Journal reported. Sources told the paper that she began exercising indoors after that, for fear of making her 81-year-old boss look bad.
Kamala Harris stopped exercising outdoors after a 2021 video showed her running up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, emphasizing the age difference between her and Joe Biden.
The anecdote comes from a story suggesting that while the Biden administration didn’t disparage Harris, it didn’t exactly elevate her, either.
The attendants told him The Wall Street Journal that it simply never occurred to them that Biden would not run for a second term.
He also suggested that Harris had not expected her role as the so-called “Border Czar,” a title both the president and vice president have denied giving her.
A person close to second gentleman Doug Emhoff said Harris’ husband called the role a punishment.
Others close to Harris say she finally found her way after the 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade.
The Supreme Court’s decision allowed Harris to be front and center as the administration fought the ruling.
Harris was catapulted into the race after Biden announced last month that he was abandoning his re-election campaign.
Although she polled poorly as vice president, Harris has enjoyed a strong start to her campaign and is now seen as a worthy challenger to Trump.
Aides said Harris’ reluctance to make Biden, now 81 and the oldest president in U.S. history, look his age prompted the vice president to shift to indoor workouts from then on.
Harris was catapulted into the race after Biden announced last month that he was abandoning his re-election campaign.
The latest Real Clear Politics polling average shows Harris with a 1.4 percent lead over Trump.
Trump’s entourage was initially jubilant, expecting weeks of infighting among Democrats. But the party quickly coalesced around the vice president and will show a united front at its convention in Chicago next week.
This year, the Democratic National Convention is pulling out all the stops to field a packed lineup of speakers.
President Joe Biden will deliver a speech on Monday, followed by a speech by Hillary Clinton. On Tuesday, former President Barack Obama will be the keynote speaker, and on Wednesday, former Democratic President Bill Clinton.
But it was just revealed that there will be another speaker on the list, and some Democrats wanted to see this person replace Biden on the 2024 ticket instead of Harris.
Michelle Obama will speak on Tuesday before her husband’s remarks, The Chicago Sun-Times reported.
More than 50,000 people will gather in Chicago for this week’s Democratic Convention, where Harris and Walz are expected to be officially nominated for the 2024 ticket.
After leading voices in the Democratic Party spoke at the convention earlier this week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz will accept his nomination for vice president with a speech on Wednesday.
The United Center has set the stage for the Convention which will begin on Monday, August 18 and conclude on Thursday, August 21.
Harris will wrap up the event with her keynote address on Thursday, followed by a balloon launch.
Trump plans to flood the airwaves with rallies, press conferences and campaign events that will amount to a massive counterprogramming effort against the DNC.
Trump will hold events every day this week in key states, and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, also plans to visit battleground states with events on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, all culminating in a rally on Friday.
Meanwhile, Trump allies will hold daily press conferences at the Trump Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, every day of the convention.
Among the Republican representatives coming to town for the convention are Sens. Rick Scott (Fla.) and Ron Johnson (Wis.) and Florida Reps. Byron Donalds and Mike Waltz. Thursday’s news conference will include a “surprise special guest.”
The first presidential debate between the two will be held in Philadelphia on September 10 and will be moderated by ABC News.
The first vice presidential debate between Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota and Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio will take place Oct. 1 in New York City and will be broadcast on CBS.
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