Kamala Harris said in an interview Tuesday that the reports claiming she won’t use bluetooth headphones are ‘ridiculous’ and brushed off queries over whether she learned any lessons in her first year in the White House.
The San Francisco Chronicle published the vice president’s comments on Sunday from an interview last week as Harris continues to face mounting criticism and dismal approval rating numbers.
Surrounding these reports was a more bizarre report claiming that Harris didn’t use bluetooth pods because she felt they were a security risk.
Harris likened that to being as ridiculous as saying she was going to buy marijuana on her way to the airport.
‘Oh, how about, ‘She’s going to buy a pot on her way to the airport,’ Harris told the Chronicle.
She bashed the report from coming out ‘after a very significant and highly successful bilateral meeting in France on issues that are about national security, on issues that are about climate, on issues that are about what we are doing in terms of international norms and rules on everything from cyber to space.’
‘Come on,’ she lamented.
Former aides, according to the report, said Harris insists on continuing to use wired earphones because she fears that Bluetooth ones represent a security risk and could allow someone to intercept her communications.
Also in her interview with the Chronicle, Harris brushed off several criticisms of her performance as vice president and reports of a feud between herself and the president. She also did not address her failures in the role so far, like the southern border crisis.
‘There is nothing about this job that is supposed to be easy,’ Harris said.
‘If something is coming to me, it’s because it needs to be addressed and because, by definition, it’s not going to be easy. If it was easy, it would have been handled before it comes to me,’ she added.
Harris twice wouldn’t directly answer a question whether she wished she’d done anything differently in her year so far as Biden’s No. 2.
‘I love people, and there’s so much that we are doing that is directly impacting and with the people in mind,’ Harris said.
She said her goal for year two of the administration is to travel more around the U.S. to push Biden’s policies after ‘two years of COVID.’
‘I have always felt that my responsibility as an elected leader is to go to the people, especially when their needs must be addressed and they must know that they are being seen and being heard.’
She says she wants to help people with ‘undiagnosed trauma’ and ‘anxiety’ related to the pandemic.
At a time when many users have moved on to the near invisible buds and pods connected through Bluetooth, Harris is frequently seen conducting remote television interviews with a cable dangling from her ears.
In a viral video clip showing the moment she spoke to Joe Biden by phone after they secured their 2020 election win, she has a tangle of white wires in her left hand.
The former aides told Politico that the vice president has long been careful about security and technology.
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SOURCE: Daily Mail
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