For Vogue’s digital November cover, Vice President and presidential nominee Kamala Harris, talks to contributor Nathan Heller about the moment she found out President Biden was leaving the race and endorsing her, the crisis in the Middle East, the importance of finding common ground, who she’d call first from the Oval Office, and more. For the full digital cover story, go to Vogue.com.
On trying to reach husband Doug Emhoff after finding out President Biden was leaving the race:
“I’m like, Where is he? Somebody find him! Why isn’t he answering? And I could not reach him for the world”—she tries to contain herself, but cracks up—“because he was in a SoulCycle class.”
“One of my first calls—outside of family—will be to the team that is working with me on our plan to lower costs for the American people. It’s not just about publishing something in a respected journal. It’s not about a speech. It’s literally about, How does this hit the streets? How do people actually feel the work in a way that benefits them?”
“There’s been a language and a conversation around what’s been happening, particularly around Israel and Gaza, that suggests that this is binary. It’s not. You’re not either for this one or for that one.” A better conversation, she thinks, is about the region and its interlocking crises. “On October 7, 1,200 people were massacred, including hundreds of young people at a concert. Women were horribly raped,” she says, and pauses for emphasis. “And far too many Palestinians have been killed.” The United States must keep laying groundwork for a two-state solution, she insists, “not giving up a sense of hope that that is possible—even if it does not appear to be imminent.”
“People, at this point, have memes about my love of Venn diagrams. You’re never going to have a complete agreement on all the issues. But you can find common ground—and expand that.”
For the full digital cover story, go to Vogue.com.
Writer: Nathan Heller
Photographer: Annie Leibovitz
Sittings Editor: Leslie Fremar
Hair: Breanna Jaggers
Makeup: Marquia James
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