{"id":1397474,"date":"2022-03-24T00:44:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T04:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1397474"},"modified":"2022-03-24T00:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T04:44:49","slug":"new-book-claims-tensions-between-joe-biden-kamala-harris-began-with-sneakers-vogue-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-book-claims-tensions-between-joe-biden-kamala-harris-began-with-sneakers-vogue-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Claims Tensions Between Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Began with Sneakers Vogue Cover"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fnew-book-claims-tensions-between-joe-biden-kamala-harris-began-with-sneakers-vogue-cover%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=1397474&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--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A new book claims tensions between Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden began even before inauguration day when the vice president\u2019s team expressed displeasure over the infamous <em>Vogue<\/em> cover that featured her wearing sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the two weeks before Inauguration Day, Harris dispatched aides to address the upcoming issue of\u00a0<i>Vogue<\/i>, according to an exclusive excerpt of the upcoming book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/This-Will-Not-Pass-Americas\/dp\/1982172487\/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?crid=138UZX47XGGOV&#038;keywords=alex+burns+jonathan+martin&#038;qid=1647976856&#038;sprefix=alx+burns%2Caps%2C76&#038;sr=8-1-fkmr1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America\u2019s Future<\/u><\/a><\/em><u>,\u00a0<\/u>by the<em> New York Times<\/em> reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns,\u201d reports\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/west-wing-playbook\/2022\/03\/22\/when-anna-wintour-pissed-off-kamala-00019368\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The reporters write the leaked photo featuring the vice president in Converse and skinny pants made Kamala Harris appear \u201capproachable\u201d while giving her a \u201cless than grand depiction.\u201d\u00a0 When Harris expressed misgivings, <em>Vogue<\/em> switched to the more traditional photo for its \u201cdigital cover\u201d while the Converse cover was sold as a limited edition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarris was wounded. She felt belittled by the magazine, asking aides: Would\u00a0<i>Vogue\u00a0<\/i>depict another world leader this way?\u201d the book claims.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The snobby, rich, fashion press Elites snubbed the most elegant First Lady in American history from ever gracing the covers of their magazines. But when it comes to Democrats\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DIKNmfR4P8\">https:\/\/t.co\/DIKNmfR4P8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1352404789804617729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Harris\u2019 press secretary Symone Sanders initially lamented the photo to\u00a0<em>Vogue<\/em>\u00a0editor Anna Wintour, who then reportedly asserted she personally chose the photo, adding that it made Harris more \u201crelatable.\u201d Tensions between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden only erupted from there, per Politico:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Incoming chief of staff Tina Flournoy was caught \u201coff-guard by the anger in Harris\u2019 circle\u201d and contacted a senior Biden campaign official. Given the country\u2019s myriad crises and the recent January 6th riot at the Capitol, \u201c[t]he Biden adviser told Flournoy that this was not the time to be going to war with\u00a0<i>Vogue\u00a0<\/i>over a comparatively trivial aesthetic issue. Tina, the adviser said, these are first-world problems,\u201d according to the excerpt.<\/p>\n<p>It was an early indication that members of the Biden-Harris teams were on different pages with different priorities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Martin and Burns report the vice president\u2019s office began to believe Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cwhite inner circle\u201d did not properly respect Kamala Harris and that the vice president \u201cworried that Biden\u2019s staff looked down on her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious,\u201d the book claims.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJ3moA_A-fZ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CJ3mrTGAbDt\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Harris also reportedly felt snubbed by the White House when it reportedly mocked a suggestion from the vice president\u2019s staff that she \u201coversee\u00a0relations with the Nordic countries \u2014 a low-risk diplomatic assignment that might have helped Harris get adjusted to the international stage in welcoming venues like Oslo and Copenhagen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhite House aides rejected the idea and privately mocked it,\u201d the book claims. \u201cMore irritating to Biden aides was when they learned the vice president wanted to plan a major speech to outline her view of foreign policy. Biden aides vetoed the idea.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new book claims tensions between Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden began even before inauguration day when the vice president\u2019s team expressed displeasure over the infamous Vogue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"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-1397474","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\/1397474","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1397474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397474\/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=1397474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}