(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris’s nagging husband, Douglas Emhoff, has irritated President Joe Biden so much that it is straining the relationship between Harris and Biden, Townhall reported.
The palace intrigue comes from a new book by author Chris Whipple, The Fight Of His Life, detailing the dramas of the Biden White House.
According to Whipple, Emhoff complained early on about his wife’s lack of glamorous assignments, making his thoughts known to Biden.
Biden, however, “hadn’t asked Harris to do anything he hadn’t done as vice president—and she’d begged him for the voting rights assignment.”
But Biden has often expressed skepticism about Harris’s ability to get the job done well.
In his view, Kamala is “a work in progress” and her husband has “annoyed” Biden by his commentary.
Emhoff has also had trouble raising his daughter.
According to one of Whipple’s sources in the White House, close to the VP, her consistent failures to navigate the White House’s internal politics have resulted largely from bad advice.
Per the advisor, Harris’s “inner circle didn’t serve her well in the presidential campaign—and they are ill-serving her now.”
In any case, Biden has actually granted Harris a number of major assignments, including managing the border crisis. Harris, however, has dropped the ball on her largest assignment, failing to even visit the border for months while traveling the world in search of “root causes.”
Harris’s failure to address the crisis extended so far that some wondered aloud whether or not she was still up to the job.
“Is Vice President Harris still in charge of addressing the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala?” Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
“She is,” Psaki replied, “and I just announced a commitment that she’s announcing this afternoon,” adding that Harris will roll out a $1.2 billion investment from the international community into Central America.
Yet Harris’s failure to achieve even the one task she was given has caused her public support to slip to historic lows, making her among the most unpopular vice presidents in American history.
