Harris and her team are trying to put the vice president in positions to succeed. The plan involves getting her on the road — campaigning and selling policy and representing the administration abroad. Harris has also started doing more national news interviews, though such appearances have not always gone well…

“The more you continue to put yourself in the lion’s den, the more comfortable you become,” Moore said. “She doesn’t have the luxury of retreating.”…

Advisors say they are also hoping to tweak Harris’ portfolio to take advantage of her passion for elevating issues that have long been overlooked by Washington’s political class.

The vice president, for example, is particularly proud that she held a White House summit in December on maternal mortality, which disproportionately affects women of color but is seldom discussed as an urgent national problem.