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She presided over the US senate and cannot be dismissed by the president, how did she have "basically no power"???
Agreed...Also, if she had no power and is not responsible for anything Bidens government did, how is she at all capable of doing the job of the president? her qualifications were that she was a fly on the wall and observed others, but didnt participate in any meaningful way, huh. She simultaneously blameless and had no power, but also the most experienced, most qualified to do the job and the only one the DNC could possibly put up against trump. What a fuckin joke of a party.
💯 so sick of hearing about small beans uwu bomber harris
she's just a girl 💅
It's the same for every VP, not just her. POTUS makes the final decision. VP can't override it.
Smallbean VP. Second-in-Command of the US.
Obviously, as I said, I'm talking about power to decide policy. The VP (as it has been for all of them, not just her) can advise, try to persuade, but it's the POTUS who makes the final decisions.
The VP can't override the POTUS on anything. That's just a fact.
There are lots of replies conflating that fact with the positions she took during her campaign. She was obviously totally responsible for positions she took in the campaign. I'm not sure Trump wouldn't have still won no matter what positions she took, but we'll never know. Point is, she took the positions she did, and she lost.