{"id":1160375,"date":"2021-12-27T09:34:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160375"},"modified":"2021-12-27T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T14:34:48","slug":"kamala-harris-says-our-democracy-is-the-biggest-national-security-challenge-america-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-says-our-democracy-is-the-biggest-national-security-challenge-america-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Says \u2018Our Democracy\u2019 Is The Biggest National Security Challenge America Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-says-our-democracy-is-the-biggest-national-security-challenge-america-faces%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris said in a Sunday interview with CBS that one of the biggest security challenges facing the U.S. is the nation\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>During an episode of \u201cFace The Nation\u201d that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/full-transcript-vice-president-kamala-harris-face-the-nation-12-26-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">aired<\/a> Sunday, Harris and CBS News\u2019 Margaret Brennan discussed the many policy challenges facing President Joe Biden\u2019s administration toward the end of 2021. The topics included the rise in COVID-19 cases due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/26\/700-flights-canceled-amid-omicron-surge-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Omicron<\/a> variant, Biden\u2019s bid to get Americans vaccinated, Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin\u2019s opposition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/18\/biden-build-back-better-poll-economy-approval\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Build Back Better Act<\/a>&nbsp;and election policies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The duo also discussed national security, with Brennan asking Harris, \u201cWhat do you see is the biggest national security challenge confronting the U.S.? What is the thing that worries you and keeps you up at night?\u201d \u2014 to which Harris replied, \u201cFrankly, one of them is our democracy. And that I can talk about because that\u2019s not classified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think no question in the minds of people who are foreign policy experts that the year 2021 is not the year 2000,\u201d the Vice President went on to say. \u201c[W]e are embarking on a \u2014 a new era where the threats to our nation take many forms, including the threat of autocracies taking over and having outsized influence around the world. And so I go back to our \u2014 our point about the need to fight for the integrity of our democracy,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the conversation, Harris had argued that 33 state laws were \u201cmaking it difficult for the American people to vote,\u201d allegedly representing a threat to \u201cone of the most important pillars of a democracy, which is a free and fair election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris also championed the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/16\/manchin-meets-republicans-compromise-voting-rights-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/13\/hupfer-freedom-vote-act-more-like-freedom-cheat-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Freedom to Vote Act<\/a>, which she believes would ensure that citizens have \u201cunfettered access to their right to vote\u201d and safeguard \u201cthe integrity of our democracy.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/mcconnell-blast-manchins-voting-compromise-same-rotten-core-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: McConnell Blasts Manchin\u2019s Voting Compromise, Alleging It Has The Same \u2018Rotten Core\u2019 As Democrats\u2019 Bill)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two bills, facing opposition from Congressional Republicans, seek to bring into effect automatic registration provisions for voting and make Election Day a national holiday, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Harris also said that \u201cclimate crisis\u201d is another security issue the Biden administration prioritizes and is working on by seeking to \u201cto re-enter \u2026 the Paris Agreement\u201d and working with the U.S. allies in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris said in a Sunday interview with CBS that one of the biggest security challenges facing the U.S. is the nation\u2019s democracy.During an episode of \u201cFace The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}