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Kamala Harris demanded chairs with leg height not less than 15 inches during interview. Here's why

Kamala Harris has a list of specifications that she wanted her interviewers to ensure during her campaigning and one of those was the height of the chair given to her. "Leg height no less than 15 inches; floor to top of seat height no less than 18.9 inches; arms on chairs may not be very high, arms must fall at a natural height; chairs must be firm," this was the brief from Kamala Harris' team for chairs.
Kamala Harris demanded chairs with leg height not less than 15 inches during interview. Here's why
Kamala Harris appeared smaller than Tim Walz in her first interview on CNN following which her campaign came out with a specification of the chair height.
During her campaign as the Democrat presidential candidate, former Vice President Kamala Harris or her team made sure that she was given chairs with some specifications. A new book about Kamala Harris' campaign by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House revealed the former VP's strange demand.
"Her team required that she be provided a chair that met certain specifications," according to the book excerpt.
The chair specification was put in place after her first media interview on CNN where she was joined by her running mate Tim Walz. In the interview, both sitting on their chairs, Walz looked taller towering over Kamala Harris.
"Sitting next to Walz in a chair that seemed to place her below him and heaping praise on Biden’s record, Harris did not look like a candidate seeking the highest office in the land," the excerpt read. "The whole scene reinforced the criticism that the vice president was either incapable, or afraid, of answering tough questions on her own."
During Kamala Harris' debate with Donald Trump, the vice president wanted a box or an artificial lift to stand on which Trump strongly opposed.
How tall is Kamala Harris?
The strange chair request sheds light on how the former vice president felt about her height as she (5.3) is shorter than both Tim Walz (6 feet) and Donald Trump (6.3). "I am 5’4" and a quarter — sometimes 5’4" and a half. And with heels — which I always wear — I’m 5’7’ and a half," Harris once said in an interview commenting on her height.
When Biden told Kamala Harris 'No daylight'
The book reveals that though former president Joe Biden publicly told Kamala Harris that she should do what she must to win, in private, he told Kamala Harris: 'No daylight'.
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