(Headline USA) Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly refusing to talk to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., after Warren refused to endorse her as President Joe Biden’s vice president in 2024.
“I really want to defer to what makes Biden comfortable on his team,” Warren said in January, reported the Washington Times. “I’ve known Kamala for a long time. I like Kamala. I knew her back when she was an attorney general and I was still teaching, and we worked on the housing crisis together, so we go way back. But they need — they have to be a team, and my sense is they are — I don’t mean that by suggesting I think there are any problems. I think they are.”
Warren has called Harris twice to apologize for her comments, according to CNN, but Harris is refusing to take her calls.
Warren even released a public statement shortly after the interview, saying she fully supports a Biden-Harris ticket.
“I fully support the president’s and vice president’s reelection together and never intended to imply otherwise,” Warren said. “They’re a terrific team with a strong record of delivering for working families.”
But Harris’s team is also “infuriated,” the report said.
“To them, it’s the latest in a long string of snubs to a vice president whom they say has never gotten the respect or support she deserves. Warren’s words sting even more, they say, because they came from a former rival who in 2020 hoped to be picked as Biden’s running mate instead,” CNN reported.
However, several prominent Democrats have come out against Harris, seeing her as a major liability for President Joe Biden’s reelection chances.
“I can’t think of one thing she’s done except stay out of the way and stand beside him at certain ceremonies,” Democrat fundraiser John Morgan said earlier this year.
