{"id":1394159,"date":"2022-03-22T13:16:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394159"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:16:44","slug":"jill-biden-questioned-why-kamala-harris-was-chosen-as-vp-book-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-biden-questioned-why-kamala-harris-was-chosen-as-vp-book-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden Questioned Why Kamala Harris Was Chosen As VP, Book Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjill-biden-questioned-why-kamala-harris-was-chosen-as-vp-book-claims%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394159&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Relations between President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 teams is far from the united front they try to project, according to excerpts of a new book from New York Times reporters.<\/p>\n<p>The excerpts, first reported by Politico, detail a fraught relationship between senior staffers for Biden and Harris, with the latter\u2019s complaining of being handed impossible tasks while Biden\u2019s camp say Harris\u2019 unpopularity is no ones\u2019 fault but her own, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/03\/22\/friction-between-harris-and-biden-camps-revealed-in-new-book-00019145\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to Politico. The book, \u201cThis Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America\u2019s Future,\u201d is authored by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.<\/p>\n<p>The book also claims that First Lady Jill Biden was skeptical of Biden\u2019s decision to select Harris as his running mate during the 2020 presidential election. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/23\/jill-biden-kamala-harris-white-house-elections-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not the first report<\/a> that Harris and the First Lady have a difficult relationship. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/02\/doocy-presses-psaki-staff-leaving-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Do People Just Not Want To Work For Her Anymore?\u2019 Doocy Presses Psaki On On Staff Leaving\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Kamala<\/span>\u00a0Harris)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking in confidence with a close adviser to her husband\u2019s campaign, the future First lady posed a pointed question. There are millions of people in the United States, she began. Why, she asked, do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?\u201d Martin and Burns claim.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7332145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7332145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>President Joe Biden, right, and First Lady Jill Biden, left, walk to host the 44th Kennedy Center Honorees at a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S, December 5, 2021. REUTERS\/Ken Cedeno<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Senior-level staff on Biden\u2019s team reportedly shared the First Lady\u2019s skepticism. Communications Director Kate Bedingfield reportedly went after Harris in private conversations for being incompetent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn private, Bedingfield had taken to noting that the vice presidency was not the first time in Harris\u2019s 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\u2019s staff,\u201d the book claims.<\/p>\n<p>Bedingfield pushed back on the report in a Monday statement to Politico, however, offering a hearty endorsement of the Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that no one working on this book bothered to call to fact check this unattributed claim tells you what you need to know,\u201d Bedingfield told Politico. \u201cVice 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The excerpts from the book come less than a day after Harris had her 10th top-level <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/21\/yet-another-kamala-harris-staffer-resigns-nancy-mceldowney-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">staff member resign<\/a> since June 2021. Nancy McEldowney announced her resignation in an internal staff memo first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/exclusive-vp-harriss-national-security-adviser-mceldowney-depart-2022-03-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obtained by Reuters<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to McEldowney, those who have left include: Sabrina Singh, deputy press secretary; Symone Sanders, chief spokeswoman; Peter Velz, director of press operations; Vincent Evans, deputy director of public engagement and intergovernmental affairs; Rajan Kaur, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlexThomp\/status\/1408543445216550912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">head of digital strategy<\/a>; Karly Satkowiak, director of advance; Gabrielle DeFranceschi, deputy director of advance; Ashley Etienne,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/18\/politics\/ashley-etienne-kamala-harris\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">communications director<\/a>; and Kate Childs Graham, head speechwriter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relations between President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 teams is far from the united front they try to project, according to excerpts of a new book from New<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}