Harris is ready to lead

Democratic presidential candidate US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at Craig Ranch Regional Park in North Las Vegas, Nevada, on October 31, 2024. [Bizuayehu Tesfaye/EPA]

Kamala Devi Harris will be the first post-pandemic president of the United States. Unless, of course, she loses to the guy who was a failed pandemic leader.

Covid-19 changed the world. We are more digitally connected. We grew to understand how interdependent our world is and how reliant we are on Greek ships and container cargo. We learned that China could lock down and take over a remonstrating Hong Kong without firing a shot or taking much guff. Moscow made a run for Kyiv. All this between 2020 and 2022.

Enter Kamala Harris. Elected vice president during the pandemic, she instantaneously joined the most world's most privileged pandemic pod - a pod that literally had her at President Joe Biden's elbow on a daily basis. Never has a vice president gone through a presidential training program with such unfettered access and concentrated foreign policy training in the...

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