One of Vice President Kamala Harris' final acts in office will be to swear in multiple Republican senators who refuse to pronounce her first name correctly, reported Time Magazine on Thursday.
This comes after many of them stumped for President-elect Donald Trump and did their utmost to make sure she would lose the 2024 election.
When she administers the ceremony, wrote Philip Elliott, "many of the smiling politicians handing her their family Bibles will be the same ones who for months have been telling crowds that she was a threat to the American way of life. At campaign rallies, on social media, and in interviews, some spent months falsely claiming she wanted to ban Christmas from the calendar, bring dog meat to immigrants’ stoves, or rig the election by inviting undocumented immigrants to flood polling places and cast illegal ballots."
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In perhaps the greatest indignity, he continued, "Of the four Senators taking oaths on Friday who also spoke at the Republican convention in Milwaukee last year, three of them couldn’t be bothered to pronounce her name correctly when they took a moment to ridicule her."
Those are Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), and Sens.-elect Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and Jim Banks (R-IN). Moreno in particular whipped up a panic against her by helping push the viral internet hoax that immigrants in Springfield were abducting and eating pets.
To some extent, Elliott wrote, "this is just the nature of the performative piece of doing the job" — and this may not be the end for Harris' career in any case, given she is mulling over a future rerun for the presidency or perhaps the governorship of California.
"So Harris will grip, grin, and grit on Friday, and for the next 17 days. Just don’t expect her to forget the litany of slights they hurled at her. Like all good pols at her level, Harris’ memory can be stubborn," wrote Elliott.
