Daily Mail
Vice President Kamala Harris conceded in a televised interview this week that her ‘biggest failure’ since taking office last January has been ‘not getting out of DC more,’ as she continues to face criticism for making just one visit to the southern border despite the worsening migrant crisis.
Speaking to CBS News’ Margaret Brennan for a weekend edition of Face the Nation set to air Sunday, Harris made the remarks after interviewer Brennan asked the former California senator an open-ended, introspective question concerning her own perceived shortcomings.
‘What do you think, as you come to the end of this first year, what do you think your biggest failure has been at this point?’ Brennan asks in a preview clip for the White House-set interview.
In the clip, Harris, 57, seems to laugh off the question at first, before admitting: ‘To not get out of DC more.’
Harris, who had a COVID scare earlier in the week after coming into contact with an infected staffer, went on: ‘I mean, and I actually mean that sincerely for a number of reasons.
‘You know, I, we, the president and I came in, you know, COVID had already started,’ she continued. ‘The pandemic had started. And when we came in we really couldn’t travel.’
‘You know, a large part of the relationship that he and I have built has been being in this, you know, together in the same office for hours on end, doing Zooms or whatever because we couldn’t get out of D.C., and on issues that are about fighting for anything from voting rights to child care, to one of the issues that I care deeply about, maternal health.
‘Being with the people who are directly impacted by this work, listening to them so that they, not some pundit, tells us what their priorities are. I think it’s critically important.’
‘People are, people have a right to know and believe that their government actually sees and hears them.
‘My biggest concern is, I don’t ever want to be in a bubble when it comes to being aware of and in touch with what people need at any given moment in time.’
Harris’ comments come as she continues to face rampant criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike for being largely withdrawn from the ongoing migrant crisis at the country’s southern border – a predicament that the president asked her to solve.
Since being named as the US’ point person on the migrant crisis in March, Harris has visited the border region just once, more than six months ago in…
