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Showing off her favorite foods is the new strategy Kamala Harris has adopted to excel in the tight electoral battle she is facing as a new Democratic Presidential nominee against Donald Trump in the upcoming US elections. Making connections with the voters by repositioning herself and clearly making herself visible is a chance to redefine herself.
For some reason, Kamala Harris remained a little unknown to the American people as she had never had an opportunity to openly connect with people. She is somewhat of an unknown political figure to many.
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Now, after becoming a nominee, high criticism comes from the Republicans who ask for more interviews and more opinions from Kamala Harris as a repositioning strategy for her own identity.
Currently, in the position of Vice president, she has thought of a better way to connect with people. She wants to show them that she is a regular human being just like them. She likes to cook, share personal details of her childhood, and show food that she loves.
Details of her childhood and love for cooking
It has pleasantly come as a surprise that Harris is a foodie and likes to cook herself. She told that she had made breakfast including pancakes and bacon for her niece, 6 years old, and daughter, 8 years old. She also mentioned that it was a July morning when Biden announced his dropping out of the presidential race.
Her favorite food: Doritos and tortilla chips
Kamala Harris seized the opportunity to make personal connections with her voters and let them that cheese Doritos is one of her favorite foods. With the same aim of connecting with people, she mentioned that she likes to munch tortilla chips when in the mood for a snack. She thought sharing small and amusing details with people would instigate their interest in their democratic candidate.
Not only that, she likes washing bathtubs with collard green, just like every other regular American would do. She shared her recipe for collard greens too, which was an unusual method. She remarked that one of her friends asked her to make the greens at a yearly Christmas Eve party. She summarized her summary of Mashama Bailey, a chef at The Grey restaurant in downtown Savannah.
Her love for caramel cakes!
She gets excited for a caramel cake! She showed this when she stopped at Dottie’s Market in Savannah and asked about the cake that she saw on the counter. She was there for a campaign bus tour in southern Georgia last week.
The employee answered that it was a chocolate caramel cake. She immediately asked for a slice saying, “Caramel is my favourite”. She looked at the description excitedly as a child would and loved to see the cake slice served to her with white frosting and caramel on top and drizzling on the sides.
Her interest in music…
In another instance, she tried another repositioning tactic saying, “I was in a band when I was your age” when she was visiting Liberty County High School in Georgia. She met the marching band practice people and talked with them about the initiation of leadership at a young age.
She ensured that it is the hard work and consistency that makes “beautiful music”. She explained that it requires hours of practice and believing in yourself that ‘you can do it’. In the end, the hard work pays off when you hit the right note to make a perfect tune, she said.
She did not mention what instrument she played, however, one of her staff members told the media later that Kamala Harris played the French horn, xylophone, and kettle drums. He revealed that she “couldn’t stick with one” instrument.
Making personal connections with voters is her new repositioning strategy
The executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Women and Politics and Chatham University, Dana Brown, said, “She is trying to show that she is a full person beyond just her policy proposals”.
Honesty and integrity are the two desirable virtues in an electoral candidate that the people of a country want to see in their next leader. It makes a natural transition to becoming a public figure with trust and confidence. It surely is the prime repositioning strategy that Kamala Harris seems to follow at present.
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