US VP Harris embraces new attack role FMTNews FMTWorld
BOSTON: Vice-president Kamala Harris has shown a punchy side during a tour of nearly a dozen US states in recent weeks, attacking Florida governor Ron DeSantis for backing “revisionist history” about slavery, telling Iowa healthcare workers to rebel against the state’s new restrictive abortion laws and rallying Latinos in Chicago to fight “extremist” Republicans.
The high-profile appearances are part of an expanded role for US president Joe Biden’s much-scrutinised governing partner ahead of the election, senior Democrats say. She’ll engage in many more campaign-style events in months to come, designed to reacquaint Harris with supporters, burnish her image with independents and reach out to Democrats’ who haven’t been hearing the Biden administration’s message.
“Let’s start registering folks now to vote,” she said. “Remind your friends and your neighbours to do that.” DeSantis on Friday accused US senator Tim Scott, the most high-profile Black candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential race, of accepting Harris’s “lie” about Florida’s new slavery curriculum requirements. His campaign accused another Black Republican who criticised the changes, which include teaching that slavery had possible benefits to the enslaved, of being a Harris supporter.
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