Excerpts from a forthcoming book shed new light on tensions between Vice President Kamala Harris and other members of the Biden administration, and on Harris’s own frustration at her role. Politics reports.
New York Times journalists Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns describe these struggles in their book, This is not going to end: Trump, Biden and the struggle for America’s futurewhich will be released on May 3.
According to an excerpt, President Biden’s communications director Kate Bedingfield has often complained about Harris:
Privately, Bedingfield had noted that the vice presidency hadn’t been the first time in Harris’s political career that she had failed to live up to lofty expectations: her Senate office had been messy and her presidential campaign had been a fiasco. she suggested the problem was not the vice president’s staff,” Martin and Burns argue.
Bedingfield told Politics that the authors had not checked this “unattributed claim” with her. She also described Harris as “a force in this government.”
Another excerpt cites an unnamed senator “close to” Harris, who described the recent years of her political career as a “slow-progressing Greek tragedy” and her level of frustration as “in the stratosphere.”
Martin and Burns also report that Biden threatened to fire employees who were caught leaking negative stories about Harris to the press.
One EconomistA poll by /YouGov of 1,500 registered voters conducted between March 12 and 15 found that 55 percent of respondents had an unfavorable opinion of Harris, compared with 37 percent who said they rate her favorably.
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