The suddenly troubled campaign of Democrat nominee Kamala Harris has given rise to heightened tensions in the form of quarrels between her camp and President Joe Biden’s loyalists.
In an unprecedented move by the party elite led by former speaker Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, a palace coup was mounted to remove their own presumptive nominee after donors threw a fit following Biden’s disastrous CNN debate in June. He was replaced by Harris who was handed the nomination despite not earning a single vote, and hard feelings that have simmered are starting to boil over publicly.
According to a report by Axios, tensions have risen between the two camps with the election no less than a month away and the “Kamalot” bubble having popped is forcing Harris’ handlers to trot her out for a series of interviews that she managed to muck up despite the friendly outlets and softball questions.
“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,” the outlet reported of the lingering bad feelings that the incumbent’s humiliating ouster created.
“They’re too much in their feelings,” an unnamed ally close to Harris is quoted, dissing Biden’s team.
One apparent matter of contention is that after Harris decided that it would be good to pick a fight with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for not taking her calls as Hurricane Milton was roaring toward his state, Biden made her look foolish by praising the Republican leader.
“The White House is lacking someone in the room thinking first and foremost about how things would affect the campaign,” an anonymous person “involved” with the Harris campaign told Axios.
Two more people complained about frustration with the White House’s cooperation in trying to add staff to Harris’ official office as vice president to assist with the heightened 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,” Axios reported.
A number of the lame-duck president’s aides have joined the Harris campaign but according to the outlet, “some feel like they’ve been labeled as disloyal by Biden’s team for leaving or even considering it.”
Two more anonymous sources “familiar with the matter,” told Axios that in the weeks after Harris was undemocratically installed – stealing the nomination from Biden – “there were squabbles about whether Biden’s main surrogates on television would continue in those roles or if new faces would emerge,” with Harris’ team prevailing and the new surrogates getting trotted out.
“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,” an unnamed White House official told the outlet.
“President Biden endorsed Vice President Harris immediately after leaving the race, rejecting other approaches that would divide the party, and has attested to her leadership abilities and continually made clear his support for her,” White House spox Andrew Bates told the outlet.
“While ensuring that all critical White House functions are fully staffed, we have made significant changes to guarantee the vice president’s team has all of the support and resources that they need,” Bates added, rebutting the Harris team members who are airing their grievances in public.
Harris’ leadership team has been invited to strategic scheduling meetings, a White House spokesperson said.
With the boatload of propaganda about the “joy” of Kamala now colliding with the reality that she’s an incompetent DEI hire who may actually do worse than Biden, the complaints from her team to the media will likely continue to become more frequent and sooner or later the jilted incumbent will be accused of sabotaging her out of spite over being stripped of his rightful nomination.
“He can’t stand her for one simple reason, she overthrew him,” former President Donald J. Trump remarked on the relationship between Biden and Harris.
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