{"id":1462680,"date":"2022-05-03T17:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T21:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1462680"},"modified":"2022-05-03T17:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T21:15:01","slug":"book-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-advising-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/book-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-advising-kamala-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: MSNBC\u2019s Joe Scarborough Advising Kamala Harris"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fbook-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-advising-kamala-harris%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=1462680&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Democrats concerned that VP&#8217;s tenure has become &#8220;a slow-rolling Greek tragedy&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 May 3, 2022 5:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris has been taking political advice from\u00a0MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, according to the authors of <em>This Will Not Pass<\/em>, a new book about the Biden administration in which\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns document the general consensus among Democrats that Harris&#8217;s tenure as vice president has been, in the words of a former Senate colleague, &#8220;a slow-rolling Greek tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The authors note that by the end of President Joe Biden&#8217;s first year in office Harris was &#8220;as politically isolated as she had ever been,&#8221; and\u00a0&#8220;few Democrats had confidence&#8221; in her ability to be the party&#8217;s standard bearer in 2024 or beyond. As a result, Harris has grown &#8220;impatient with her own aides,&#8221; whom she blamed for &#8220;letting her down.&#8221; The VP even &#8220;initiated an audit of her office to make it function better.&#8221; No wonder she has such a hard time <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/fleeing-by-the-dozen-kamalas-chief-of-staff-becomes-12th-aide-to-ditch-scandal-plagued-veep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retaining staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin and Burns write that, in an effort to salvage her political career, &#8220;Harris began seeking out advice from beyond her inner circle, taking counsel from longtime veterans of the Washington scene like Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor-turned-ambassador to Japan, and Joe Scarborough, the congressman-turned-MSNBC star.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough, the thrice-married host of <em>Morning Joe<\/em>, is best known for going out of his way to help Donald Trump get elected, and subsequently <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/msnbc-anchor-bleak-future-for-children-grandchildren-of-trumps-defenders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">declaring<\/a> that &#8220;history \u2026 will be bleak&#8221; for the children and grandchildren of Trump&#8217;s boosters. He is currently married to <em>Morning Joe<\/em> cohost Mika Brzezinski, sometimes referred to as &#8220;low I.Q. Crazy Mika&#8221; by former president Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The reporting in <em>This Will Not Pass<\/em> makes clear that Biden and his team of advisers were never particularly fond of Harris, whose only highlight from her failed presidential campaign in 2020 was denouncing Biden as a racist during a June 2019 primary debate. When it came time to choose a running mate, the authors write, Harris was &#8220;neither the candidate who most greatly impressed Biden&#8217;s vice-presidential search committee, nor the person his advisors saw as most immediately prepared for the presidency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That assessment hasn&#8217;t changed much since the election. According to Martin and Burns, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield was among those who privately griped that &#8220;the vice presidency was not the first time in Harris&#8217;s political career that she had fallen short. \u2026 Her Senate office had been messy and her presidential campaign had been a fiasco.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perhaps, she suggested, the problem was not the vice president&#8217;s staff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Democrats concerned that VP&#8217;s tenure has become &#8220;a slow-rolling Greek tragedy&#8221;  Andrew Stiles \u2022 May 3, 2022 5:10 pm Vice President Kamala Harris has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1462680","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\/1462680","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\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462680\/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=1462680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}