WASHINGTON - If elected president in November, is bound to shake things up in the nation's capital. That's not to say Harris would stray dramatically from normal Democratic policy stances. Some of her former Senate colleagues told USA TODAY that they'd expect come 2025 that they'd be working in many of the same areas where was successful.
But there's also little chance a - she'd be 60-years-old on Inauguration Day - would simply follow Biden's lead. The two politicians are from different generations, have different life stories, care about different issues and bring different perspectives to the job. "Honestly, we just had a race between two stodgy old men.
And so how is she going to be different? She's not a stodgy old white man," Moe Vela, a former senior advisor to Biden, said in an interview. As , Harris' job is to soften those differences and put Biden's policies first. Winning the top job is a chance to put herself out front and center, and that person is less Biden's Old Washington and more hip and relatable, Vela said.
"I think what we're going to see is a modernization of the presidency. With this generational change, I think we're going to see less of that rigidity, if you will, or that formal Old Guard, and more of a relaxed style," Vela said. "I love the fact that she lets out that bellowed laugh.
That she's not trying to hold it back. She's not trying to be what people want her to be. I think she's actually has the beauty of being herself.
" The biggest difference.