President Joe Biden held the ground for an impromptu Q&A session Friday afternoon throughout the White Home press briefing, the place he claimed Vice President Kamala Harris is “in fixed 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.
“Properly, she’s, I am in fixed contact together with her. She’s conscious all of us, we’re singing from the identical track sheet. We, she helped move all of the legal guidelines which might be being employed,” mentioned Biden.
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“Now, she was a significant participant in all the pieces we have carried out, together with passage of laws which we had been instructed we might by no means move. And so she’s been, and her, her workers is interlocked with mine when it comes to all of the issues 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 report over the previous 3 ½ years, regardless of the Harris marketing campaign’s makes an attempt to distance her from all the pieces 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 just lately modified the Biden fiscal yr 2025 plan from a capital beneficial properties tax charge 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 accountable 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 with a view 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 shops and pundits on the left quickly adopted swimsuit.
However Biden has reportedly bristled about his vp distancing herself from him behind the scenes. He has additionally hinted that he believes he might have gained the election had he not dropped out.
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Throughout an look on The View final week, Biden mentioned, “I by no means totally believed the assertions that in some way there was this overwhelming reluctance to my working once more. The very fact of the matter is, my polling was all the time in vary 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 similar Harris was taking the stage at a marketing campaign occasion, elevating questions over whether or not it was a communications situation between him and the marketing campaign, or he was attempting 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 through 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 “risk to democracy.”
The Harris marketing campaign has additional distanced itself from the Biden administration by mentioning him much less and fewer typically because the election nears. Throughout Tuesday’s Vice Presidential Debate, Harris’ working mate, Gov. Tim Walz, solely referred to the sitting president by referencing the “Biden-Harris administration.”
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The Harris marketing campaign didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
