Quote:President Joe Biden’s team blamed Vice President Kamala Harris for her disastrous first year in office.

A new book titled, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” is written by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns and details the tensions between Harris and Biden in the White House.

White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield privately revealed her feelings about Harris’ problems while speaking to Martin and Burns for the book.

“In private, Bedingfeld had taken to noting that the vice presidency was not the first time in Harris’s political career that she had fallen short of sky-high expectations: Her Senate office had been messy and her presidential campaign had been a fiasco. Perhaps, she suggested, the problem was not the vice president’s staff,” the book states.

Bedingfeld protested the report in a statement to Politico’s Playbook but she did not deny it.

“The fact that no one working on this book bothered to call to fact check this unattributed claim tells you what you need to know,” Bedingfield said, describing Harris as “a force in this administration.”

Harris also allegedly took offense when Biden’s staffers failed to stand up whenever she entered a room.

Biden’s staffers, who stood when he entered a room, did not do the same for Harris — a move that she interpreted as “a sign of disrespect.”

“Some of Harris’s advisers believed the president’s almost entirely white inner circle did not show the vice president the respect she deserved. Harris worried that Biden’s staff looked down on her; she fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious,” Burns and Martin continued.

In another example of the Biden-Harris feud in the West Wing, the book claims Biden threatened to dismiss any staffers for Harris if they were discovered spreading negative stories about her leadership and personality.

The book also claims that First Lady Jill Biden did not want Harris as the first choice to be the VP.

“Speaking in confidence with a close adviser to her husband’s campaign, the future first lady posed a pointed question. There are millions of people in the United States, she began. Why she asked, do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?” the book said.

What is more curious is that the first lady’s spokesman, Michael LaRosa, did not confirm nor deny the reports in the book and gave a tepid answer.

“Many books will be written on the 2020 campaign, with countless retellings of events — some accurate, some inaccurate. The First Lady and her team do not plan to comment on any of them,” he said.

The book also alleges that Harris felt frustrated at times — and even blamed President Biden for some of those frustrations. After specifically asking to help with the push for both election overhaul bills — the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom To Vote Act — Harris reportedly complained that unless Biden forcefully declared his willingness to support senate rule changes, she could not hope to move the measure forward.

“How was she supposed to communicate clearly about voting-rights legislation, Harris asked West Wing aides, when the president would not even say that he supported changing the Senate rules to open the path for a bill?” the book said.

The pair reports that Harris and Biden have had a “friendly but not close” personal relationship, “and their weekly lunches lacked a real depth of personal and political intimacy.”

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The clowns who stole the election sure did a bang up job vetting the VP they wanted installed. What, to them suggested competence in all her previous political endeavors? Dems didn't even like her, as she could barely gin up 1% support in the primaries.

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They knew exactly what they were getting - somebody so inept and incompetent that the pResident would look relatively good next to her.

Spartacus would have been a better "choice of color".... if he only had a vageena.

Still an abject failure, but at least he can speak coherent sentences.

(04-12-2022 02:52 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote:  The clowns who stole the election sure did a bang up job vetting the VP they wanted installed. What, to them suggested competence in all her previous political endeavors? Dems didn't even like her, as she could barely gin up 1% support in the primaries.
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They knew exactly what they were getting - somebody so inept and incompetent that the pResident would look relatively good next to her.

What they wanted was a female of color to deliver the votes of females and persons of color. Competence wasn't a criterion, just the ability to deliver votes. I'm not sure she delivered the number of votes that they had hoped, but they found ways to get around that problem.