{"id":581158,"date":"2021-07-03T14:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=581158"},"modified":"2021-07-03T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T18:06:04","slug":"biden-white-house-trying-to-stop-narrative-of-vp-kamala-harris-office-as-abusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-white-house-trying-to-stop-narrative-of-vp-kamala-harris-office-as-abusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden White House Trying To Stop Narrative Of VP Kamala Harris\u2019 Office As \u2018Abusive\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\">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%2Fbiden-white-house-trying-to-stop-narrative-of-vp-kamala-harris-office-as-abusive%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=581158&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233733800.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Following Politico\u2019s bombshell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/06\/30\/kamala-harris-office-dissent-497290\">act of journalism<\/a> last week that featured former staffers claiming Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 office is \u201can abusive environment,\u201d the Biden White House is trying to stop a negative narrative from spreading.<\/p>\n<p>CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2021\/07\/02\/politics\/kamala-harris-office-dynamics\/index.html\">reported<\/a> that the White House has gone \u201cinto damage control mode\u201d following Politico\u2019s report, which found 22 former staffers, administration officials, and associates who spoke about the dysfunctional environment in Harris\u2019 office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are thrown under the bus from the very top, there are short fuses and it\u2019s an abusive environment,\u201d a person with direct knowledge of the situation in the vice president\u2019s office told Politico. \u201cIt\u2019s not a healthy environment and people often feel mistreated. It\u2019s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s***.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dysfunction in the VP\u2019s ranks threatens to complicate the White House\u2019s carefully crafted image as a place staffed by a close-knit group of professionals working in concert to advance the president\u2019s agenda. It\u2019s pronounced enough that members of the president\u2019s own team have taken notice and are concerned about the way Harris\u2019 staffers are treated,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>CNN reported that President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is \u201ctrying to stop a drama-filled narrative from taking hold, according to five people who spoke to CNN about the dynamics within Harris\u2019 office.\u201d The outlet then proceeded to publish statements from the administration.<\/p>\n<p>Sabrina Singh, Harris\u2019 deputy press secretary, insisted to CNN that Harris was focusing on her work for the Biden administration. White House press secretary Jen Psaki also defended Harris on Friday, saying she \u201chas a challenging job, a hard job, and she has a great supportive team of people around her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN noted, however, that \u201chelp from the West Wing is a sign that the spiraling narrative could start to affect Harris, who is considered the next in line to lead the Democratic Party \u2014 with a potential for a presidential run coming as soon as 2024 if President Joe Biden decides not to seek reelection.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden previously has said he would seek re-election in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous others publicly spoke out to defend Harris from the allegations, but some of these efforts have backfired and solidified Politico\u2019s reporting to some extent. White House senior adviser Anita Dunn, for example, told Politico the complaints about Harris\u2019 office were \u201cnot anywhere near what you are describing\u201d but acknowledged there could be \u201cpeople whose feelings were a little hurt on her staff\u201d because many weren\u2019t told about her last-minute trip to the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Harris flew to El Paso, Texas, a blue county where the border crisis isn\u2019t as harrowing. As The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-hammers-harris-for-spot-she-choose-to-visit-on-border-harris-denies-gop-pressure-led-to-trip\">reported<\/a>, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) called out Harris for going to El Paso instead of the Rio Grande Valley Sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure her planners told her that if you\u2019re going to go down to the border, go to a, something that\u2019s safer to go to that is politically safer. If you go down to the lower Rio Grande with the high activity and you\u2019re there with kids and families, prosecutorial discretion, where people are being released, high numbers of people crossing the border, you know, politically that\u2019s \u2014 it\u2019s harder to do that, I know that,\u201d Cuellar said.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire\u2019s Tim Pearce previously reported, Harris \u201chas a history of overseeing dysfunctional teams\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22.735294117647\">\n<p><em>Her campaign for president&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-kamala-harris-drops-out-of-presidential-race\">died<\/a>&nbsp;in the primary after she let go of most of her staff in an effort to rebuild her floundering operation. At the time, similar to now, most of the blame was placed on her then-campaign manager Juan Rodriguez.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Days before Harris announced the end to her presidential run in December 2019, one of her senior staff members, Iowa operations director Kelly Mehlenbacher,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/unacceptable-top-harris-aide-writes-scathing-resignation-letter\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;a scathing resignation letter trashing Harris\u2019 campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly,\u201d Mehlenbacher wrote at the time. \u201cWhile I still believe that Senator Harris is the strongest candidate to win in the General Election in 2020, I no longer have confidence in our campaign or its leadership.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Politico\u2019s bombshell act of journalism last week that featured former staffers claiming Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 office is \u201can abusive environment,\u201d the Biden White House is trying to stop &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313971,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233733800.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden White House Trying To Stop Narrative Of VP Kamala Harris\u2019 Office As \u2018Abusive\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233733800.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Biden White House Trying To Stop Narrative Of VP Kamala Harris\u2019 Office As \u2018Abusive\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581158","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=581158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}