{"id":2357418,"date":"2024-10-21T09:18:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T13:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-stumping-with-obamas-as-biden-gets-pushed-behind-the-scenes-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-21T09:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T13:20:19","slug":"harris-stumping-with-obamas-as-biden-gets-pushed-behind-the-scenes-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-stumping-with-obamas-as-biden-gets-pushed-behind-the-scenes-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris stumping with Obamas as Biden gets pushed behind the scenes &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">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%2Fharris-stumping-with-obamas-as-biden-gets-pushed-behind-the-scenes-washington-examiner%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=2357418&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>Vice \u200bPresident\u2063 Kamala Harris is currently shifting \u2064her campaign strategy to highlight herself as a\u2063 change agent, distancing her efforts from President Joe Biden.\u200d As she campaigns across the country\u2062 with a diverse group of allies, including former President Barack Obama and Liz Cheney, \u2063Biden\u2019s\u2062 appearances are significantly \u200climited,\u200d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-jr-calls-on-book-publisher-to-cancel-cuomos-book-amid-scandal-rules-should-be-applied-equally\/\" title=\"Don Jr. Calls On Book Publisher To Cancel Cuomo\u2019s Book Amid Scandal: \u2018Rules Should Be Applied Equally\u2019\">officials stating<\/a> that he needs to\u2064 focus on his\u200b presidential duties. Despite this, Harris faces skepticism about how she can present a new vision\u200b while\u2063 being Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> for nearly four years.<\/p>\n<p>With various voter concerns, particularly about the \u2064economy\u2062 and foreign policy, Harris is tasked with balancing her accomplishments as\u2064 vice president while carving out her\u200c identity \u200cseparate\u2062 from the Biden administration.\u2062 A recent\u2063 interview emphasized the challenge she\u2064 faces in\u2064 promoting a campaign slogan\u2064 of change when critics question what she is moving away from, given her tenure in\u2063 office. In response to these critiques, Harris has aimed to attribute her campaign&#8217;s focus on moving beyond the divisive politics associated with former President Donald\u200d Trump. As Election Day approaches,\u200c the dynamics of her campaign will \u200bbe\u2063 crucial in determining her political future.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Harris stumping with Obamas as Biden gets pushed behind the scenes<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1837093\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> is downsizing President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a>&rsquo;s role in her campaign as she struggles to paint herself as an agent of change.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>While Harris is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3195955\/harris-triples-down-republican-outreach-liz-cheney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>barnstorming<\/a> the country with a concoction of varied political allies, including former President Barack Obama and former Wyoming Republican Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/liz-cheney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Liz Cheney<\/a>, the Democratic Party&rsquo;s commander in chief will be absent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/kamala-harris-no-current-plans-campaign-biden-election-day-rcna176254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according to<\/a> NBC News.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s out there doing the job as president, and she&rsquo;s out there campaigning,&rdquo; a Harris campaign official said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s clear voters want something new.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Biden&rsquo;s campaign appearances on behalf of Harris throughout her presidential campaign have already been few and far between, but with two weeks to go until Election Day, they&rsquo;re set to end altogether.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The most important role he can play is doing his job as president,&rdquo; Harris campaign officials reportedly said. <\/p>\n<p>The news comes as critics have pressed Harris over how she would chart a &ldquo;new way forward,&rdquo; as her campaign slogan says, since she has been Biden&rsquo;s vice president for nearly four years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris arrive in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, for an event on gun violence in the United States. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>With voters expressing significant dissatisfaction over the economy, immigration, and foreign policy, Harris has long walked the line between touting her record as vice president and distancing herself from the Biden White House.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Harris has to be establishing herself as a change agent, and it&rsquo;s hard to do that with a sitting president at her side,&rdquo; one Democratic strategist noted.<\/p>\n<p>During a contentious interview with Fox News anchor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bret-baier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Bret Baier<\/a> last week, Harris sparred with the host about how she has attempted to portray herself as an agent of change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Your campaign slogan is &lsquo;A new way forward&rsquo; and &lsquo;It&rsquo;s time to turn the page.&rsquo; You&rsquo;ve been vice president for 3 1\/2 years. So, what are you turning the page from?&rdquo; Baier asked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pivoting to an attack on former President Donald Trump, Harris replied that she hoped to &ldquo;turn the page from the last decade in which we have been burdened with the kind of rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that has been designed and implemented to divide our country.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Pushing back, Baier responded, &ldquo;If you&rsquo;re turning the page &mdash; you&rsquo;ve been in office for 3 1\/2 years,&rdquo; to which Harris replied, &ldquo;And Donald Trump has been running for office.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But you&rsquo;ve been the person holding the office,&rdquo; Baier said. Harris reiterated that &ldquo;over the last decade,&rdquo; she believes Trump has shown &ldquo;he is unstable, that he is dangerous.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BAIER: What are you turning the page from?<\/p>\n<p>HARRIS: First of all, turning the page from the last decade in which we&#8217;ve been burdened by the kind of rhetoric from Donald Trump designed to divide our country <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QK6Cl9cIT4\">pic.twitter.com\/QK6Cl9cIT4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1846678091516563571?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth came as the Trump campaign has used Harris&rsquo;s status as vice president to paint her into a corner.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/campaign-2024-an-early-look-at-the-possible-republican-contenders\/\" title=\"Campaign 2024: An Early Look At The Possible Republican Contenders\">vice presidential debate<\/a> about Harris&rsquo;s plans to enact &ldquo;all these great policies&rdquo; if she wins the election, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) argued that &ldquo;because she&rsquo;s been the vice president for 3 1\/2 years, she had the opportunity to enact all of these great policies.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If Kamala Harris has such great plans for how to address middle-class problems, then she ought to do them now, not when asking for a promotion, but in the job the American people gave her 3 1\/2 years ago,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;And the fact that she isn&rsquo;t tells you a lot about how much you can trust her actual plans.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But last Wednesday, Harris told voters: &ldquo;Let me be very clear: My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden&rsquo;s presidency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a rare campaign stop for Harris on Oct. 15, Biden told attendees at the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee Autumn Dinner that &ldquo;every president has to cut their own path.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s what I did. I was loyal to Barack Obama, but I cut my own path as president,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s what Kamala is going to do. She&rsquo;s been loyal so far, but she&rsquo;s gonna cut her own path.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1837093\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1837093\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris campaigns with Obamas, sidelining Biden&#8217;s role<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2357419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Harris-Bdien.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,4021,5315,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2357418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-harris","tag-obama","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Harris-Bdien.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357418","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\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2357418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2357419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}