Kamala Harris’s Sen­ate tiebreak­ers offer road map for GOP attacks

Kamala Harris’s Senate tiebreakers offer road map for GOP attacks

Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris has cast the most tie-break­ing Sen­ate votes in U.S. his­to­ry, a feat that’s under­scored the increas­ing­ly par­ti­san and divid­ed nature of the upper cham­ber.
But the achieve­ment also lays the ground­work for Repub­li­can attacks against Har­ris, the fron­trun­ner to be the 2024 Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee.
“It’s a big issue,” Sen­ate Minor­i­ty Whip John Thune (R‑SD) told the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er. “That’s what cam­paigns are about. It should be about the issues, her record, and her views and how they dif­fer and con­trast with Pres­i­dent Trump.”
Giv­en the nature of the par­ty-line votes, Har­ris is cred­it­ed for push­ing through some of the most divi­sive nom­i­nees and leg­is­la­tion in the Sen­ate. For­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump and down-bal­lot Repub­li­cans have tak­en notice, brand­ing her as the lib­er­al arbi­tra­tor respon­si­ble for many of Sen­ate Democ­rats’ wins.
Har­ris has bro­ken ties 33 times since 2021, includ­ing 27 times on nom­i­nees by Pres­i­dent Joe Biden and six times on leg­is­la­tion such as the Infla­tion Reduc­tion Act and a near­ly $2 tril­lion pan­dem­ic-era stim­u­lus, per a Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er analy­sis.
Of her tie-break­ing votes on nom­i­nees, nine were need­ed for final con­fir­ma …