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this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2024
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Doesn't that just mean there were more ties due to an evenly divided Senate?
Yeah, I bet if you sort VPs by tie-breaking votes you’ll be able to find the most evenly divided senates. I almost added this to my post but didn’t want to do any more research or compromise the mildness of the interest of the post 🙃
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Yeah, it's not a huge personal achievement in her part, just a quirk of her term.
It does. Joe Biden was VP for a lot longer than Harris, but according to the table linked in the OP, he cast 0 tie-breaking votes; if you look at Senate composition during that time, you can see that there was always a very clear majority for one party. Since 2017 it's always been fairly close to 50-50, so there needed only to be a few (if any) senators breaking from their party to create ties, so Pence and Harris got plenty of opportunities to cast tie-breaking votes.