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Kamala’s First Year in the White House

An alternative retrospective

12 min readDec 31, 2025

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Kamala Harris waving with silhouette of cheering crowd behind her
Image of Kamala Harris by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons; Crowd image licensed from Adobe Stock; image smashup by author.

It seems like I’ve been putting the finishing touches on my alternative history novel Restive Souls for about a decade. So it’s not surprising that a thought crossing my mind a lot as the New Year approached has been what our new year should look like, instead of the fact that we are about to enter year two of the biggest political farce in American history.

So with that in mind, here’s a fictional retrospective of Kamala Harris’s first year in office, as written by a fictional reporter for an unnamed news organization that has not turned to the dark side, and perhaps in this newly conceived timeline, never will.

I didn’t categorize this as fiction in the Medium kicker because something like this is really what should have happened in a sane country.

The highlights of Kamala Harris’s tumultuous first year as U.S. President

by Walter Cronkite III

Kamala Harris made history by becoming the first female president in U.S. history, squeaking by Donald Trump in a surprisingly close election that was later discovered to have been tampered with in several states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Ohio…

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