'WHY HER?': Jill Biden was against Kamala Harris for VP, new book makes bombshell claim
A new book, expected to release on May 3, has claimed that Jill Biden was not in favor of Kamala Harris when she was considered for the Vice President’s position. ‘This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future’, written by Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, also revealed that Joe Biden and Harris are “friendly but not close,” “and their weekly lunches lacked a real depth of personal and political intimacy.”
According to the book, when Harris was chosen as Joe’s running mate, Jill criticized it and also asked, “There are millions of people in the United States. Why … do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?” The first lady’s remark was reportedly in reference to the heated argument between the President and Harris during the first Democratic presidential debate in June 2019. At the time, the 57-year-old had told the commander-in-chief, “I do not believe you are racist. But I also believe, and it is personal — it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and careers on the segregation of race in this country.”
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Following that, a Politico Magazine article claimed that Jill was heard saying on a phone call with many people, “With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis? Go f**k yourself.” However, later when she was asked about the remark, she said while giving a hug to Harris, “That was two years ago. We’ve moved on from that.”
Also, the first lady's spokesperson Michael LaRosa said in a statement, “Many books will be written on the 2020 campaign, with countless retellings of events — some accurate, some inaccurate. The First Lady and her team do not plan to comment on any of them.”
Apart from this, other controversial claims made in the book apparently include Biden’s communications director Kate Bedingfield. The authors have reportedly written, “In private, Bedingfield had taken to noting that the vice-presidency was not the first time in Harris’s political career that she had fallen short of sky-high expectations: her Senate office had been messy and her presidential campaign had been a fiasco. Perhaps, she suggested, the problem was not the vice-president’s staff.”
However, Bedingfield has called out the book and told Politico, “The fact that no one working on this book bothered to call to fact check this unattributed claim tells you what you need to know. Vice President Harris is a force in this administration and I have the utmost respect for the work she does every day to move the country forward.”
Politico also noted that in their book, Burns and Martin have said that “Harris, wary of being hemmed in, didn’t want to pick a few signature issues. She even told White House aides ‘in frank terms that she did not want to be restricted to a few subjects mainly associated with women and Black Americans.’”
It added, citing the book, that Harris “did ask to lead the administration’s push to shore up federal voting rights. But as the effort stalled in Congress, leaving the White House (and Harris) with not many options, she placed some of the blame at Biden’s feet.”