Harris Was to the Left of Bernie Sanders in the Senate, and It's Coming Back to Haunt Her

Now that it is looking increasingly like Vice President Kamala Harris will be the Democratic nominee for 2024, her liberal past has come back to haunt her once more. Before becoming the vice president under President Joe Biden, Harris served as a senator for California. According to data from 2019, she was the most left senator, even to the left of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Using stats from Govtrack.us for the 2019 report card, Jeremy Redfern, the press secretary for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) highlighted such findings in a quoted repost of the governor. 

DeSantis had been reacting to financial support for Harris from "the corporate media," highlighting how the vice president "is too vacuous, too liberal and too unaccomplished for the voters to buy the manufactured narrative."

When it comes to those senators most politically right, Harris indeed has a score of 0.00, while Sanders has a score of 0.02. She was also 97th among those senators who most engaged in bipartisanship when it comes to joining bills introduced by members of the other party.