President Joe Biden held the ground for an impromptu Q&A session Friday afternoon through the White Home press briefing, the place he claimed Vice President Kamala Harris is “in constant contact.” His feedback might not come throughout as music to the Harris marketing campaign’s ears.
Within the president’s shock look, he remarked on the port strike, the most recent jobs numbers, and briefly on Hurricane Helene. No reporters requested in regards to the administration’s response to the storm, however one requested Biden to evaluate whether or not Harris has been deeply concerned in coverage.
“Well, she’s, I’m in constant contact with her. She’s aware we all, we’re singing from the same song sheet. We, she helped pass all the laws that are being employed,” mentioned Biden.
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“Now, she was a major player in everything we’ve done, including passage of legislation which we were told we could never pass. And so she’s been, and her, her staff is interlocked with mine in terms of all the things we’re doing,” Biden continued.
President Biden, at a shock press briefing look, sought to attach his administration to the positions of Kamala Harris. (POOL)
The president strongly linked Vice President Harris to the Biden administration’s document over the previous 3 ½ years, regardless of the Harris marketing campaign’s makes an attempt to distance her from all the things from “Bidenomics” to inflation to the border disaster, since Biden introduced he was ending his reelection marketing campaign, and Harris assumed the mantle of nominee.
Harris lately modified the Biden fiscal yr 2025 plan from a capital positive factors tax price of 39.6% on a wage of $1M or extra to her personal 28%, for instance. As unlawful migration throughout the border surged to historic ranges, Harris has additionally insisted she was by no means answerable for Biden’s border coverage, regardless of Biden personally handing her the reins on the White Home in March 2021.
Axios reported that Harris would start creating some daylight between herself and Biden in August so as to defeat Trump, as inflation raged, wars in Ukraine and the Center East heated up, the border disaster continued, crime lingered as a priority, and different elements, together with Harris’ personal weak approval score, weighed her marketing campaign down. Different retailers and pundits on the left quickly adopted swimsuit.
However Biden has reportedly bristled about his vice chairman distancing herself from him behind the scenes. He has additionally hinted that he believes he might have received the election had he not dropped out.
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Throughout an look on The View final week, Biden mentioned, “I never fully believed the assertions that somehow there was this overwhelming reluctance to my running again. The fact of the matter is, my polling was always in range of beating [Trump].” Biden even joked about leaping again into the race throughout Friday’s shock look on the White Home.
He additionally started his first White Home briefing look of his presidency on the identical Harris was taking the stage at a marketing campaign occasion, elevating questions over whether or not it was a communications concern between him and the marketing campaign, or he was making an attempt to upstage her.
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks after Iran launched round 200 missiles on Israel, on the Josephine Butler Parks Heart in Washington, DC on October 1, 2024. In her remarks, Harris pledged ‘unwavering’ dedication to Israel’s safety. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Biden sparked questions on the subject earlier than, on the anniversary of September 11, by carrying a Trump hat momentarily. The White Home referred it to as a “unity gesture” – after Biden spent years casting Trump as a “threat to democracy.”
The Harris marketing campaign has additional distanced itself from the Biden administration by mentioning him much less and fewer usually because the election nears. Throughout Tuesday’s Vice Presidential Debate, Harris’ operating mate, Gov. Tim Walz, solely referred to the sitting president by referencing the “Biden-Harris administration.”
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