By New York Post (Politics) | Created at 2025-01-19 16:01:12 | Updated at 2025-01-19 19:34:35
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What a joke.
Cackling Vice President Kamala Harris has vowed to not “go quietly into the night” and to remain active in politics after spectacularly losing her presidential bid.
“You all know me because we have spent long hours, long days and months and years together,” Harris said Friday with a snicker as she completed the tradition of signing the vice president’s desk drawer.
“It is not my nature to go quietly into the night. So, don’t worry about that,” she said.
The outgoing veep added her signature next to the likes of former Vice Presidents Dick Cheney, Joe Biden and Walter Mondale. She is the first female and second minority to serve as VP.
The desk-drawer signing ceremony dates back to the 1940s, and her desk has been used by every vice president since Lloyd B. Johnson.
Harris, 60, refrained from giving specifics about her next plans, but she is rumored to be considering a run for political office again, including as governor of California, whose current leader, Gavin Newsom, is term-limited.
“It is the work of caring about our country,” she said of the vice presidency. “It is the work of understanding we hold these offices in the public trust with the duty and the responsibility to uphold the oath we take to respect, to defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Since her defeat to President-elect Donald Trump, Harris has largely laid low, appearing only for key events such as the administration’s response to the California wildfires and presiding over the Jan. 6 congressional certification of her defeat.
She has previously dropped hints about staying active in politics.
“We will continue to wage this fight in the voting booth, in the courts and in the public square,” she declared during her concession speech in November.
Harris took the reins from President Biden to serve as the Democratic Party standard bearer some 107 days before Election Day.
Ultimately, Trump swept all seven battleground states and became the first Republican presidential aspirate to win the popular vote in two decades.
Meanwhile, Biden, 82, has publicly suggested that he could have won if Democrats didn’t jettison him from the top of the ticket at the last minute in favor of Harris.
“It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes,” Biden told USA Today earlier this month, pointing to polling data even while acknowledging he didn’t know if he had the vitality for another four years as commander in chief.
During the transition, Harris neglected to give Vice President-elect JD Vance and his family a tour of the Naval Observatory residence, CBS News reported.
Vance’s team had reportedly reached out after Trump’s win with questions about the extent to which the Queen Anne-style mansion needed child-proofing. Vance, 40, has three children.
