White House Report Card: Biden ele­vates Har­ris to pres­i­dent

This week’s White House Report Card finds Pres­i­dent Joe Biden step­ping into the shad­ows of his vice pres­i­dent and new­ly-mint­ed pre­sump­tive 2024 Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­den­tial nom­i­nee Kamala Har­ris, instant­ly mak­ing him a “lame duck.”
On issues they see as pos­i­tives such as pris­on­er swap with the Krem­lin, Har­ris has been ele­vat­ed to an equal plan­ner with Biden. Both met the pris­on­ers at Joint Base Andrews and Har­ris said of Biden, “This is just an extra­or­di­nary tes­ta­ment to the impor­tance of hav­ing a pres­i­dent who under­stands the pow­er of diplo­ma­cy and under­stands the strength that rests in under­stand­ing the sig­nif­i­cance of diplo­ma­cy and strength­en­ing alliances.”
Har­ris has also adopt­ed Biden’s prac­tice of avoid­ing ques­tions on prob­lem issues, such as the shock­ing jump in unem­ploy­ment, the can­cel­la­tion of a dis­as­trous ille­gal immi­grant parole pro­gram, and the threat of extinc­tion Israel f …