(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Even before her multiple oratory disasters in speeches and press conferences, even before her cackles over the Ukrainian refugee crisis, even before Vice President Kamala Harris failed spectacularly and repeatedly on the world stage, she was the cause of serious tension and discord within the Biden administration.
Harris, in fact, was out long before she was ever really in with Team Biden, according to explosive excerpts from the book This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future, by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.
The book is due to be published May 3.
The future first lady expressed equal parts dismay and anger when Harris was chosen as a running mate, after she had launched an attack on then-candidate Biden during a Democrat primary debate, hammering him over a reprehensible record on race.
Dr. Jill was not pleased and, during a post-debate conversation with confidantes, she tore into Harris, reported the New York Post.
“With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to,” Jill Biden said of her husband.
“You get up there and call him a racist without basis?” she said of Harris. “Go f**k yourself.”
Jill Biden reportedly doubled-down on her disdain for Harris as a running mate.
“There are millions of people in the United States,” she said. “Why … do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?”
Harris’ public defense of her sudden change of heart about Biden’s record after she was tapped for the Veep slot, when she cringe-laughed and scoffed her way through a friendly interview with Stephen Colbert, should have served as a warning of what was to come.
The portends were ignored, of course, and Biden was quick to discover what a horrid mistake he had made.
In the weeks before Inauguration Day, when Harris should have been cramming on the challenges at hand, she was instead in a frenzied panic about her photo on the cover of Vogue magazine, according to book excerpts obtained by Politico.
The photo showed Harris in Converse shoes, skinny pants and a sporty blazer.
“Harris was wounded,” the book reports. “She felt belittled by the magazine, asking aides: Would Vogue depict another world leader this way?”
Harris’ incoming chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, was flummoxed by the reaction and the situation didn’t improve when she related Harris’ concerns to a senior Biden campaign official.
Flournoy was told, what with COVID and multiple crisis facing the incoming administration, “that this was not the time to be going to war with Vogue over a comparatively trivial aesthetic issue. Tina, the adviser, said these are first-world problems,” according to the book’s excerpt.
In another early dust-up, Harris reportedly complained that Biden’s largely-white White House inner-circle was disrespecting her because they didn’t stand up when she entered a room the way they did for Biden.
There were multiple instances that followed the same pattern, according to book excerpts, with Harris being set up to fail by her own ineptitude, vanity and vapidity.
And while Jill Biden and Harris reportedly shared a hug after some of the more damning excerpts had leaked, it’s probably a safe bet that the tensions are still simmering.
And that should come as a surprise to absolutely nobody.
“I am here. Standing… here…” ::checks notes:: pic.twitter.com/lylvfZj4qO
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) March 10, 2022
