Vice President Kamala Harris obtained glammed up for her Vogue journal cowl shoot Monday — as Israel marked the one-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 bloodbath and Florida braced for its second lethal ‘cane in days.
Harris, 59, was hailed as a “candidate for our occasions” on the entrance web page of the style month-to-month, which pictured her smirking in a $3,000-plus chocolate Gabriela Coronary heart go well with with broad lapels and costly Tiffany earrings.
The prolonged accompanying profile of the VP and Dem presidential hopeful gushed about her being “a results-oriented, roll-up-the-sleeves chief” who grew to become a kind of uncommon “people summoned for acts of nationwide rescue” after President Biden exited the 2024 race.
Harris sat for images for the article on the identical day the world marked the anniversary of the worst assault on the Jewish folks for the reason that Holocaust, when Palestinian Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and slaughtered greater than 1,200 folks, principally civlians, and kidnapped 250 extra.
The photograph shoot befell between one in all two public appearances she made earlier than the airing of her high-stakes “60 Minutes” interview that night with CBS’ Invoice Whitaker.
Upon leaving Washington, DC, for her New York media blitz that day, Harris additionally launched a veiled assault on GOP Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, 46, for “taking part in political video games” by allegedly avoiding her cellphone calls after Hurricane Helene.
On the time, the Sunshine State, battered by Helene late final month, additionally was within the crosshairs of Hurricane Milton, which Biden warned can be “the storm of the century” for Florida when it struck this week.
“, moments of disaster, if nothing else, ought to actually be the second that anybody who calls themselves a frontrunner says they’re going to place politics apart and put the folks first,” Harris informed reporters on the tarmac, not naming DeSantis instantly.
“Individuals are in determined want of assist proper now and taking part in political video games at this second in these disaster conditions — these are the peak of emergency conditions — is totally irresponsible and it’s egocentric,” she stated.
Aides to the Florida governor reportedly “didn’t reply” the vice chairman’s overtures earlier than Helene made landfall Sept. 26 — however DeSantis informed reporters in a Monday afternoon press convention he “didn’t know she referred to as me.
“She has no position on this course of,” DeSantis jabbed again later within the week on CNBC’s “Squawk Field.” “And I’ve been coping with these storms in Florida beneath each [former President Donald] Trump and [President] Biden. Neither of them ever politicized it.”
Biden, later requested whether or not DeSantis needs to be taking Harris’ calls, selected to remain out of the fracas.
“All I can inform you is I’ve talked to Gov. DeSantis,” he stated Wednesday with out mentioning his former working mate. “He’s been very gracious, he’s thanked me for all we’ve accomplished, he is aware of what we’re doing, and I believe that’s essential.”
Earlier than her jab on the governor Monday, Harris planted a pomegranate tree with husband Doug Emhoff outdoors the Naval Observatory to memorialize “the energy and endurance of the Jewish folks” and the “horror of Oct. 7.”
“We’re doing every thing we will presumably do to get a ceasefire-hostage deal accomplished,” she vowed to a reporter when requested concerning the Israel-Hamas conflict. “It’s one of the vital essential methods we can finish this conflict and produce any kind of stability to the area. It’s one of many highest priorities of this administration.”
The vice chairman has been at odds with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a number of factors through the conflict — even declining to attend a joint session of Congress to listen to him converse — and has repeatedly accused Israel’s navy of killing “too many” Palestinians in response to the Oct. 7 horror.
In interviews since turning into the Democratic presidential nominee, she has additionally declined to say whether or not she can be in favor of withholding some US weapons shipments from Israel to leverage coverage outcomes.
Harris beforehand posed for Vogue earlier than Inauguration Day 2021 that includes Biden as president and her as his right-hand girl. She later had an aide whine to the journal’s editor in chief that her look in black Converse sneakers and slim-cut pants was unflattering.
