During her campaign as the Democrat presidential candidate, former Vice President Kamala Harris or her team made sure that she was given chairs with some specifications. A new book about Kamala Harris’ campaign by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House revealed the former VP’s strange demand.
“Her team required that she be provided a chair that met certain specifications,” according to the book excerpt.
The chair specification was put in place after her first media interview on CNN where she was joined by her running mate Tim Walz. In the interview, both sitting on their chairs, Walz looked taller towering over Kamala Harris.
“Sitting next to Walz in a chair that seemed to place her below him and heaping praise on Biden’s record, Harris did not look like a candidate seeking the highest office in the land,” the excerpt read. “The whole scene reinforced the criticism that the vice president was either incapable, or afraid, of answering tough questions on her own.”
During Kamala Harris’ debate with Donald Trump, the vice president wanted a box or an artificial lift to stand on which Trump strongly opposed.
How tall is Kamala Harris?
The strange chair request sheds light on how the former vice president felt about her height as she (5.3) is shorter than both Tim Walz (6 feet) and Donald Trump (6.3). “I am 5’4″ and a quarter — sometimes 5’4″ and a half. And with heels — which I always wear — I’m 5’7’ and a half,” Harris once said in an interview commenting on her height.
When Biden told Kamala Harris ‘No daylight’
The book reveals that though former president Joe Biden publicly told Kamala Harris that she should do what she must to win, in private, he told Kamala Harris: ‘No daylight’.
