President Joe Biden’s 11th-hour decision not to seek reelection and the quick rallying around Vice President Kamala Harris to take over for him at the top of the ticket give Democrats a likely presidential nominee with a less high-profile record on military and veterans issues than before.
As vice president, Harris has supported Biden’s major initiatives on service members and veterans, including the massive expansion of veterans benefits under the PACT Act and the 2021 U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. But the portfolio of projects she took the lead on in the White House did not focus on military and veterans issues.
Still, her four years in the Senate included votes on military and veterans bills, and her time as California’s attorney general saw her take on for-profit colleges that targeted veterans — a record that could provide a window into what a Harris presidency would mean for service members and veterans.
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Republican campaigning against her has so far focused mostly on her role in the Biden administration’s immigration policies, rather than anything in her record on the military and veterans.
Harris, for her part, has leaned into her record as a prosecutor as she launches her campaign against the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump, who has been convicted in one criminal case and still faces charges…
