Vogue Magazine published their glowing profile of Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday, revealing a long narrative of what it was like for her as she was swept up in the presidential race to claim the Democratic nomination after President Joe Biden dropped out.
Harris sat for an interview and participated in a photoshoot with famed photographer Annie Leibovitz for the profile at her home on October 7th.
The cover features Harris wearing her own Gabriela Hearst suit and $800 Tiffany earrings at the vice president’s residence as it describes her as ‘the candidate for our times.’
There are few new details about Harris in the profile, but the author follows along with her on the campaign trail and talks to people in her circle who describe her ‘as a roll-up-the-sleeves leader.’
Harris says that if she is elected president, her first action will be to lower costs for the American people.
‘It’s literally about, How does this hit the streets? How do people actually feel the work in a way that benefits them?’ she explains. Harris also vows to start the push in Congress for federal legislation to legalize abortion.
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‘Work, one senses, is a happy word for Harris,’ the profile notes, as Harris admits ‘to speak of myself in the third person … makes me quite uncomfortable.’
Harris also jokes about the mockery surrounding her use of Venn diagrams while speaking.
‘People, at this point, have memes about my love of Venn diagrams,” she admits, while talking about how she will govern as president.
Harris has expensive fashion tastes, including Cartier watches, Tiffany gold necklaces, and multiple pearl necklaces.
The profile leads the reader through various aspects of her biography, with glowing reviews of her political history before finally concluding with behind the scenes details of her campaign.
The Vogue profile is the latest piece in Harris’ media blitz with just 25 days until the presidential election. Harris sat for interviews with Howard Stern, The View, Stephen Colbert, and even the sex podcast Call Her Daddy.
Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris looks on during a campaign event
US Vice President Kamala Harris arrives to speak to supporters on the campaign trail
The release of the profile triggered backlash on social media from conservatives who felt she should not have posed for photos with an elite fashion magazine while people were still suffering from devastating hurricanes.
‘She doesn’t care about Americans,’ wrote conservative activist Steve Cortes on social media. ‘All she cares about is power.’
The Trump campaign criticized Harris for doing her cover shoot on October 7, the anniversary of the terrorist attacks against Israel.
‘On the 1 year anniversary of October 7 and as bodies were being recovered from Hurricane Helene, Kamala Harris sat down for a photo shoot with Vogue,’ wrote former President Donald Trump’s National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
The profile and photos were well received by Harris and her supporters, a much different reaction than a controversial cover featuring her election as vice president in 2021.
Harris famously hated the 2021 cover which featured her in a full-body shot against a backdrop of pink and green silk drapes dressed in an almost casual dark blazer, black slim-leg pants, white t-shirt, and black Converse sneakers.
The new profile features crumbs of details from Harris’ campaign activity at a Pennsylvania pretzel factory, the Democratic convention, her campaign event with Liz Cheney, and finally the moment she takes the stage with Oprah for a campaign.
Behind the curtain, the profile author details Harris as she prepares to go on stage.
‘In the dark, she seems to allow herself the greatest luxury for someone who, for more than a month, has been everything to everybody on daises and cameras all the time: to be invisible. Harris brings her hands palm to palm, tucks them between her knees, and lets her shoulders fall forward and her neck tilt up toward the monitor, rolling a lozenge on her tongue. For a few moments, she seems truly “one of us”: an American, tired after a day of meetings and travel and speeches, giving way to gravity and TV,’ the author reveals.
Finally, Harris takes the stage, as the author concludes ‘the crowd springs to its feet, the stagehand gives a go-sign, and Harris rushes forward, into the light.’