How Kamala Harris views policy
livemint.comAhead of a lunch meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House in March, JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Jamie Dimon didn’t know what to expect. Dimon wasn’t sure of her political agenda when it came to the economy and business.
His previous interactions with Harris had been limited, though the pair had a testy back-and-forth nearly a decade earlier while she was California attorney general during the mortgage foreclosure crisis. He came away from the White House meeting thinking that Harris had been reasonable and open to improving how government and corporations can work together, according to people familiar with the discussion.
Harris’s emergence as the likely Democratic nominee since President Biden bowed out of the race Sunday has put the focus on the vice president’s policy views and governing style. Given her brief time in the Senate and early end to her presidential bid, Dimon and others have said they have known little about her positions, which has opened her up to Republicans casting her as a radical liberal over the last four years.
She also struggled to craft a consistent campaign message when she ran for president herself, leaving her critics to argue her policy positions are rooted in political expediency. “There was a little confusion coming out of the 2020 Democratic primary, but I think 3½ years of service in the Biden White House has clarified that," said Matt Bennett of centrist think tank Third Way.
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