<p>According to a new book from two New York Times journalists, first lady Jill Biden was far from thrilled by her husband&#8217;s decision to make then-Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) his vice president.</p>
<p>The book, written by Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns of The NYT, is titled &#8220;This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future&#8221; —  and it <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/white-house/white-house-comms-director-blames-harris-chaos-vice-presidents-office-report">details tensions</a> between Harris and Biden and their respective camps both during the campaign and after arriving at the White House.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Per the book, Jill Biden was unhappy with the choice of Harris as VP. “Speaking in confidence with a close adviser to her husband’s campaign, [Jill Biden] asked ‘There are millions of people in the U.S., Why do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?’“ <a href="https://t.co/q9QqcVO9wj">https://t.co/q9QqcVO9wj</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1506341666004905997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>First lady Jill Biden reportedly made it clear early on that she was not happy to welcome Harris to her husband&#8217;s ticket. According to Burns and Martin, she referenced Harris&#8217; debate-stage attempt to paint then candidate Joe Biden as a racist — citing his friendships with known segregationists and his opposition to busing — and she wondered to an adviser whether there wasn&#8217;t a better choice among the millions of other Americans who might be available.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Speaking in confidence with a close adviser to her husband’s campaign, the future first lady posed a pointed question. There are millions of people in the United States, she began. Why, she asked, do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?”</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Jill Biden&#8217;s spokesman, Michael LaRosa, made it clear that the first lady had no plans to comment on the book. &#8220;Many books will be written on the 2020 campaign, with countless retellings of events — some accurate, some inaccurate. The first lady and her team do not plan to comment on any of them,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The book also suggests that the first lady was not the only one who questioned Harris&#8217; abilities. White House Communications Director Kate Bedingfield reportedly complained about Harris as well, suggesting that the problems in her office might be about her rather than her staffers.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“In private, Bedingfield had taken to noting that the vice presidency was not the first time in Harris’s political career that she had fallen short of sky-high expectations: Her Senate office had been messy and her presidential campaign had been a fiasco. Perhaps, she suggested, the problem was not the vice president’s staff.&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Bedingfield has denied ever making such comments, <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2022/03/22/friction-between-harris-and-biden-camps-revealed-in-new-book-00019145">telling Politico</a>, &#8220;The fact that no one working on this book bothered to call to fact check this unattributed claim tells you what you need to know. Vice President Harris is a force in this administration and I have the utmost respect for the work she does every day to move the country forward.&#8221;</p>
<p>The book <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/599181-new-book-reveals-frustrations-between-biden-harris-camps">also alleges</a> that Harris felt frustrated at times — and even blamed President Biden for some of those frustrations. After specifically asking to help with the push for both election overhaul bills — the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom To Vote Act — Harris reportedly complained that unless Biden forcefully declared his willingness to support senate rule changes, she could not hope to move the measure forward.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;How was she supposed to communicate clearly about voting-rights legislation, Harris asked West Wing aides, when the president would not even say that he supported changing the Senate rules to open the path for a bill?&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Biden did eventually say that he would support such rule changes — but because Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/thats-bulls-don-lemon-unloads-on-sinema-and-manchin-for-celebrating-mlk-while-blocking-election-overhaul/">did not support</a> the rule changes, the bills were still stalled in the Senate.</p>

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