Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the American Federation of Teachers’ 88th national convention,
Thursday in Houston.
Credit: AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
It may well just have been a case of fortuitous timing, but Vice President Kamala Harris — the likely Democratic nominee for the presidency — gave her most full-throated address on Thursday since President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign Sunday to an auditorium filled with enthusiastic teachers.
She articulated what seem likely to be the principal lines of attack in what, for her, will be one of the shortest presidential campaigns in American history. She also reprised some of the education issues that have figured prominently in her career so far.
Speaking Thursday in Houston at the convention of the American Federation of Teachers, which, as she…
