{"id":1782903,"date":"2022-12-21T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782903"},"modified":"2022-12-21T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T18:18:57","slug":"book-says-biden-called-vp-harris-a-work-in-progress-complained-about-her-annoying-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/book-says-biden-called-vp-harris-a-work-in-progress-complained-about-her-annoying-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Says Biden Called VP Harris a &#8220;Work in Progress,&#8221; Complained About Her Annoying Husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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-says-biden-called-vp-harris-a-work-in-progress-complained-about-her-annoying-husband%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=1782903&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 class=\"speakable\">According to a new book about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden presidency<\/a>, there have been real tensions between President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, with the president venting to friends that he has been &#8220;annoyed&#8221; with her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, complaining about the VP&#8217;s official assignments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Biden has reportedly been frustrated with Harris and called her a &#8220;work in progress.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Politico published these quotes on Tuesday from an excerpt of the upcoming book, &#8220;The Fight of His Life,&#8221; by Chris Whipple. The book provides an inside look at the Biden presidency\u2019s first years. Whipple told Politico he was given &#8220;extensive access to Biden administration officials while writing the book.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/wapo-columnist-called-sycophantic-defense-kamala-harris-refusing-see-reality\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>WAPO COLUMNIST CALLED OUT FOR \u2018SYCOPHANTIC\u2019 DEFENSE OF KAMALA HARRIS: \u2018REFUSING TO SEE REALITY\u2019<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/640\/320\/GettyImages-1356675387.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris embraces President Biden before his remarks at a menorah lighting ceremony in celebration of Hanukkah in the East Room of the White House on Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The ceremony marked the first time Hanukkah is celebrated with a Jewish member of either the first or second family, second gentleman Doug Emhoff.\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Vice President Kamala Harris embraces President Biden before his remarks at a menorah lighting ceremony in celebration of Hanukkah in the East Room of the White House on Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, D.C. The ceremony marked the first time Hanukkah is celebrated with a Jewish member of either the first or second family, second gentleman Doug Emhoff.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Whipple\u2019s access to the administration gave him a view to squabbling between the Biden and Harris, after the vice president&#8217;s husband reportedly provoked frustration in the president for complaining about her policy assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Politico wrote, &#8220;word got back to [Biden] that second gentleman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/klain-second-gentleman-emhoff-take-picture-far-left-influencer-repeatedly-pushed-pee-tape-claim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOUGLAS EMHOFF<\/a> had been complaining about Harris\u2019 policy portfolio \u2014 which her allies felt was hurting her politically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Upon hearing this, &#8220;\u2019Biden was annoyed,\u2019 wrote author Chris Whipple.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the book stated, Biden felt as though &#8220;He hadn\u2019t asked Harris to do anything he hadn\u2019t done as vice president \u2014 and she\u2019d begged him for the voting rights assignment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whipple also wrote that Biden confided in a friend that he viewed the vice president as &#8220;a work in progress.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a senior White House adviser blamed Harris\u2019 stumbling on advice given to her by her inner circle. The adviser expressed &#8220;[Harris\u2019] inner circle didn\u2019t serve her well in the presidential campaign \u2014 and they are ill-serving her now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/640\/320\/KamalaHarris.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Democratic National Committee Women&#039;s Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 30, 2022.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during the Democratic National Committee Women&#8217;s Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 30, 2022.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Leigh Vogel\/Abaca\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/karine-jean-pierre-ripped-claiming-biden-worked-secure-border-egregious-lie-heard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>KARINE JEAN-PIERRE RIPPED FOR CLAIMING BIDEN HAS WORKED TO SECURE THE BORDER: &#8216;MOST EGREGIOUS LIE I&#8217;VE HEARD&#8217;<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whipple told Politico that some of the tensions within the Biden administration have died down in its second year, remarking that Biden has had a much better presidency in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;What makes this such a great story is that Joe Biden and his team really turned it all around, I think.&#8221; He described it as &#8220;a tale of two presidencies \u2013 the first year and the second year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whipple\u2019s work features other moments of tension and frustration in the Biden White House, like those surrounding Biden\u2019s catastrophic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/bidens-afghanistan-withdrawal-remains-catastrophe-american-weakness-year-later\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">withdrawal of U.S. troops<\/a> from Afghanistan in 2021. Politico wrote, &#8220;The book captures [White House Chief of Staff Ron] Klain\u2019s anger at the public and private critiques of Biden\u2019s withdrawal from Afghanistan by LEON PANETTA, the former chief of staff to BILL CLINTON who also served as CIA director and defense secretary under BARACK OBAMA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/640\/320\/Screen-Shot-2022-12-17-at-12.25.44-PM.png?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"President Biden made a gaffe-filled speech in Delaware on Friday.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      President Biden made a gaffe-filled speech in Delaware on Friday.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Screenshot\/Twitter)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It also details the letter former President Trump left Biden &#8220;before leaving the Oval Office.&#8221; Politico wrote, &#8220;Biden\u2019s reaction? \u2018That was very gracious and generous\u2026 Shockingly gracious.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>White House spokesperson Robyn Patterson declined to comment on the veracity of the claims in the book beyond saying, &#8220;We don\u2019t plan to engage in confirmations or denials when it comes to the specifics of those claims. The author did not give us a chance to verify the materials that are attributed here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Gabriel Hays is an associate editor for Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new book about the Biden presidency, there have been real tensions between President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, with the president venting to friends that he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1782906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,4432,9050,3620,5458,5297,3781,10938,4021,10937,5866,7308,3819,4005,4304],"class_list":["post-1782903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-about","tag-annoying","tag-biden","tag-bongino","tag-book","tag-called","tag-complained","tag-harris","tag-her","tag-husband","tag-progress","tag-report","tag-says","tag-work"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782903","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}