President Joe Biden wants to pass off the baton smoothly. After dropping out of the election, he endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, calling her an "extraordinary partner" in his administration. And in many policy areas, a Harris administration would probably be equivalent to a second Biden term.
But foreign policy is the one area where the president's personal feelings matter the most, because he or she is unilaterally calling the shots. Biden himself has bucked the Democratic Party consensus many times, going out of his way to take a more hawkish line on Israel and more dovish line on Afghanistan than his colleagues.
