US Vice-President Kamala Harris on Monday said she is ready to serve and people around her know about \u201cher capacity\u201d to lead. Harris\u2019 remarks gain significance amid questions over the age of President Joe Biden and recent comments by a special counsel about his weak memory, which has been denied by the White House.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am ready to serve. There\u2019s no question about that,\u201d Harris told The Wall Street Journal in an interview. The financial daily said the interview was conducted two days before the special counsel\u2019s report on Biden\u2019s handling of classified documents amplified concerns about the 81-year-old incumbent\u2019s mental acuity.<\/p>\n
The report said Biden displayed \u201cdiminished faculties\u201d in interviews and called him an \u201celderly man with a poor memory.\u201d Everyone who sees her on the job, Harris said, \u201cwalks away fully aware of my capacity to lead\u201d, according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n
The vice president, however, described her boss as an \u201cincredible leader\u201d, according to a statement released by the Biden-Harris campaign. \u201cI have been with Joe in the Oval Office when the cameras are there and when they are not. I have watched him bring folks together across the nation and across the world. He is an incredible leader,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Harris said the comments made by the special counsel were unnecessary, inaccurate and inappropriate. \u201cThe way the president\u2019s demeanour was characterised in that report could not be more wrong. It was clearly politically motivated,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect a higher level of integrity than what we saw. Nevertheless, I want you to know the Joe that I know,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
US Vice-President Kamala Harris on Monday said she is ready to serve and people around her know about \u201cher capacity\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":16278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[9968,792,101,479,9970,7405,3530,9969],"class_list":["post-30939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bidens-mental-health","tag-investigation","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala-harris","tag-leadership","tag-reports","tag-us-2024-presidential-elections","tag-weak-memory"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}