Interesting….
Biden as a former VP spent a LOT of time helping his boss Barack Obama do his job due to his experience …
That dynamic is not present in the Biden admin…
Remember…
These two where never comfortable with each other….
Biden does need her to spread his message further though…
We’ll see if this get’s closer or not ….
(It was at the start)….
Harris will be needed to follow up on the Biden package getting out (being sold) to the American public also….
This also about 2024 if Biden does NOT run again, which is only a remote thought now, but there nevertheless….
In their first two months in the White House, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were practically inseparable — Harris traveled with Biden to the Pentagon, sat in the Roosevelt Room when he met virtually with a foreign leader and delivered her own remarks on the administration’s priorities.
The proximity fueled a sense that she would be part of an unusual partnership, “the Biden-Harris administration,” as it was branded.
But nine months in, Harris’ schedule reflects the life of a more conventional vice president, one who sees the president less often and spends more time selling the administration’s agenda in roundtables and day trips to reservoirs and classrooms, according to an analysis of her public events by The Times….
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Harris came into her position with unique expectations as a groundbreaking politician serving the oldest president in history and one who had himself served as President Obama’s No. 2. Biden in the 2020 campaign told donors he was a “transitional candidate” who was seeking “to get more people on the bench that are ready to go in.” The implication, to some, was that Harris would be groomed in the event the 78-year-old Biden either could not fulfill his term or declined to run for reelection in 2024.
However, White House officials and Harris’ allies say it’s misleading to read too much into the scheduling shift, or to even call it that. They point out that schedules ebb and flow — Harris and Biden were together more often in July and August, a period that included public remarks after the Senate passed an infrastructure bill and a series of private briefings during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. Early in the administration, the officials say, the pair also spent time with each other out of necessity as the nation grappled with a pandemic that severely restricted travel and the size of public events.
The needs have now changed. With more people vaccinated and its legislative programs in jeopardy, the White House has launched an all-out effort to pass its agenda….
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The former rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination were not especially close, and had to overcome friction on the debate stage, when Biden chose her as his running mate.
A former Harris advisor, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic, said he remains concerned by an apparent lack of trust between the Biden and Harris operations and by the sense that “she hasn’t been given any all-star portfolio,” a criticism that White House officials dispute….
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“Part of the problem seems to be that the Biden-Harris relationship is a political partnership that’s still ripening,” he said….
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