President Joe Biden vented his frustration with Vice President Kamala Harris in the first months of her term, according to a forthcoming book.
She understood that her husband Douglas Emhoff was complaining about her policy portfolio, which allies believed was hurting her politically. This apparently annoyed the new American leader.
“Biden was angry,” author Chris Whipple wrote in “The Fight of His Life,” according to an excerpt reported Tuesday by Politico. “He didn’t ask Harris to do anything he he had not been vice president and she had begged him for the right to vote.
The president told a friend that Harris was “a work in progress,” Whipple wrote.
Apparently, Biden wasn’t his only critic. A top White House aide said in the book that Harris’ “inner circle did not serve her well in the presidential campaign — and are serving her badly now.”
As of last week, 53 percent of registered voters disapproved of Harris, while 39 percent had a favorable opinion, according to an aggregate of several Los Angeles Times polls. (Biden’s disapproval rating was 51.4 percent, according to another calculation.) The vice president’s detractors grew after he was handed the issue of blocking immigration at the border, the Times noted.
HuffPost did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Harris’ office.
Whipple, the best-selling author of the chief of staff’s history of “The Gatekeepers,” had “extraordinary access” to the first two years of the Biden administration for his latest work (out Jan. 17), according to the book’s synopsis. . He pointed out to Politico that senior Biden staffers must approve the offer and that Biden and Harris agreed to answer questions only in writing, sidestepping some sensitive questions.
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