{"id":1457200,"date":"2022-04-28T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1457200"},"modified":"2022-04-28T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T20:59:52","slug":"biden-skimping-on-promise-to-dine-with-harris-once-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-skimping-on-promise-to-dine-with-harris-once-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Skimping On Promise To Dine With Harris \u2018Once A Week\u2019"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbiden-skimping-on-promise-to-dine-with-harris-once-a-week%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=1457200&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>President Joe Biden appears to be skimping on his self-proclaimed promise to have lunch with Vice President Kamala Harris \u201calone once a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden made the public promise during an <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/politics\/how-joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-are-working-together\/\">interview<\/a> with People Magazine shortly after taking office. The president emphasized the importance of giving Harris access, pointing out that he was afforded those opportunities as vice president under former President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Like] Barack and I, we have lunch alone once a week,\u201d Biden said at the time. \u201cThat\u2019s the deal when we\u2019re [Harris and Biden] both in country, which we\u2019ll be for a while because of COVID, and I see her all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To date, however, Biden-Harris lunches in the White House\u2019s Private Dining Room remain scarce. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/factba.se\/biden\/calendar\">review<\/a> of the president\u2019s public schedule, the two have privately dined together just 25 times since Biden took office.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7419755\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7419755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic U.S. vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris speaks during a \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d roundtable with Black Milwaukee business owners to discuss how a Biden-Harris administration would advance racial equity as part of our nation\u2019s economic recovery, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. September 7, 2020. REUTERS\/Alex Wroblewski<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Twenty-three of the lunches came in 2021, according to the president\u2019s public schedule.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Biden and Harris have only eaten together twice, Real Clear Politics first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2022\/04\/28\/biden_promised_harris_lunch_once_a_week_theyve_had_two_this_year_147531.html\">reported.<\/a>\u00a0RCP noted that this marked \u201ca significant drop\u201d for the same time period in 2021, where Biden and Harris ate lunch together 12 times.<\/p>\n<p>One of this year\u2019s private lunches occurred shortly after Biden returned from Poland. The second happened amid Biden\u2019s Supreme Court nominee search, RCP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/22\/jill-biden-vice-presicent-kamala-harris-new-york-times-book\/\">reports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/24\/kamala-harris-vogue-anna-wintour-joe-biden\/\">suggest<\/a> Biden\u2019s relationship with Harris has not always been easy. The New York Times\u2019 Jonathan Marin and Alex Burns, for one, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/03\/22\/friction-between-harris-and-biden-camps-revealed-in-new-book-00019145\">report<\/a> in their upcoming book that Biden and Harris\u2019s \u201cweekly lunches lacked a real depth of personal and political intimacy.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/report-wh-privately-mocked-kamala-harris-aides-complained-immigration\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0REPORT: WH \u2018Privately Mocked\u2019 Kamala Harris Aides Who Complained Immigration Was Too Hard For Her To Handle)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Questions surrounding how often Biden and Harris work directly together coincide with Harris testing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/kamala-harris-positive-coronavirus\/\">positive<\/a> for COVID-19 on Tuesday. Aides said at the time that Harris hadn\u2019t seen Biden for eight days, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/26\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-positive-coronavirus.html\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, the White House maintains that the two \u201care in constant touch with each other,\u201d Deputy Press Secretary Chris Meagher told RCP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd he relies on her counsel, partnership, and friendship as they work together to continue to grow the economy, cut costs for working families, rally the world in the face of Russia\u2019s aggression, and make historic investments in our nation\u2019s infrastructure,\u201d Meagher said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden appears to be skimping on his self-proclaimed promise to have lunch with Vice President Kamala Harris \u201calone once a week.\u201dBiden made the public promise during an interview<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1480899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457200","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\/1457200","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1480899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}