Kamala Harris speaks first, Joe Biden goes next: A pattern slowly emerges

By Nikhila Natarajan New York, Nov 17 : US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaking first and leading into Joe Biden’s remarks is slowly but surely becoming a signature one-two maneuver that could define our visual recall of the post-January 21, 2021 White House power duo.
In her first set of prepared remarks Monday on the tanking US economy, Vice President elect Kamala Harris took the stage before Biden, in a repeat of the team’s victory speech routine from the night of November 7.
At best Harris’ remarks were a contextual introduction to a Biden view of repairing the US economy.
“The road ahead. It will not be easy. But the President Elect and I are hitting the ground running. Because we all know the challenges facing America today are great. The American people deserve no less. And we don’t have a moment to waste. And now it is my incredible and great honor to introduce our president elect Joe Biden,” Harris said.
The substantive portion came in Biden’s speech – who he met, what he plans to do and then he took questions. Harris merely set the stage but she did. And that seems to be getting hard coded into the semantics of the post-Trump administration.
Even routine communications from the Biden transition team rarely speak of Biden in the singular. “On Monday, November 16, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will deliver remarks in Wilmington, Delaware on the economic recovery and building back better in the long term,” said a Monday morning dispatch.