Experts reveal their takeaways from the viral moment when Sen. Deb Fischer's husband, Bruce, appeared to deny the vice president's handshake.

"Black woman to Black woman, I recognize every single breath, facial expression, and physical reaction to what Kamala Harris is experiencing."

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Bruce Fischer's behavior revealed a small, petty man who treated Harris not as this nation’s vice president, but as a Black woman he would not acknowledge because she challenged Trump.

White House photographer Lawrence Jackson has been covering Kamala Harris for the past four years. His images have helped shape how the world sees her.

Some years back, I was talking with my dinner companion when a young woman of color interrupted with an excited query. “Are you Senator Kamala Harris?” she asked in that slightly unbelieving tone one uses when meeting a hero in person. With a big smile, Harris said yes. The young woman gushed her admiration and they took a picture.

FILE - Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., listens to President Donald Trump speak during a meeting with Republican lawmakers in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) AP

Once Harris became the nominee, women voters surged behind her. But on Election Day, she won a smaller share of them than Biden did. This is how it fell apart.

Kamala Harris has hinted that she wants to stay involved in politics and foreign affairs after leaving the vice president's office, but she hasn't disclosed any plans so far.

Pictures shared on social media by the vice president and by the Carter Center prominently showed other past presidents in attendance.

Longtime Republican turned never-Trumper Sarah Longwell wanted Joe Biden to defeat Donald Trump. But the outgoing president’s revisionist history in a recent interview with USA Today was a bridge too far for the Biden backer at the time he was still the presumed Democratic nominee.

After four years in the spotlight and the shortest presidential campaign in US history, Kamala Harris faces an unclear political future.