It was reported this morning that Kamala’s campaign is not happy with Joe Biden and his White House staffers because they are not sufficiently coordinating with Kamala to help her win the election.
Here’s the rub from Axios:
The relationship between Kamala Harris’ team and Joe Biden’s White House has been increasingly fraught in the final weeks before Election Day, 10 people familiar with the situation tell Axios.
Biden’s team wants Harris to win the election, but many senior Biden aides remain wounded by the president being pushed out of his re-election bid and are still adjusting to being in a supporting role on the campaign trail.
- Biden gave an impromptu press conference in the White House briefing room Friday just as Harris was about to do an event in Michigan, ensuring that her event would get less TV coverage than it otherwise would have.
- Earlier in the week, Harris criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for not taking her call about the recent hurricanes, only for Biden to praise DeSantis soon after for being “gracious” and “cooperative.” (A person familiar with the situation told Axios that Biden hadn’t been briefed on Harris’ comments.)
- Biden has been eager to boast about a robust jobs report, helping to end the strike by the longshoremen’s union and other perceived victories recently. Harris has been trying to focus on voters’ pocketbook concerns, including inflation.
- One person involved with Harris’ campaign told Axios: “The White House is lacking someone in the room thinking first and foremost about how things would affect the campaign.”
The tensions have played out on the staff level, too.
- Harris’ team has been trying to add staff to the vice president’s official office to handle the bigger workload. It’s been frustrated at the White House’s pace in getting people detailed for that, according to two people familiar with the matter.
- The White House has been working to help Harris’ team but has been frustrated by some of the rules about who can be detailed and when.
Several Biden aides have joined Harris’ campaignbut some feel like they’ve been labeled as disloyal by Biden’s team for leaving or even considering it.
- A White House official told Axios: “Everyone from the president on down knows how important the election is, and we always anticipated a number of staff would want to transition from the administration to the campaign for the final stretch.”
On Harris’ campaignthere’s also awkwardness between some who were on Biden’s original campaign staff and the Harris allies who’ve been installed in recent weeks.
This is what happens when you mount a coup against the incumbent and force him out of the race.
People are bitter and they don’t just get over it because you want them to.
Honestly, I love it. I hope Biden keeps getting in Kamala’s what and Trump destroys her on election day.
