Axios: The difference between Harris and Biden has increased

According to RCO News Agency, the “Axios” News site wrote, 10 sources informed this site about the relations between the team of “Kamala Harris”, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate and vice president of the United States, and the team of her current boss in the White House, Joe Biden. In the last weeks of the election campaign, it becomes more and more tense.

Axios writes: “Although Biden’s team wants Harris to win the election, many of Biden’s top aides are unhappy that the US president was forced to drop his re-election bid in favor of Harris, and are forced to take on the role of supporting Harris. They appear during the election campaign.”

“They’re still unhappy,” a Harris ally said of Joe Biden’s team. Some White House aides also feel this way.

According to some members of Harris’s team, senior White House aides are doing less to coordinate messages and programs with Biden to benefit and support the Harris campaign because of this dissatisfaction.

Axios cited an unannounced press conference that Biden held in the White House briefing room on Friday, just as Harris was scheduled to hold a rally in Michigan, as one sign of the rift between Biden and Harris. Reduce the accumulation of Harris.

A few days ago, Harris also criticized Ron DeSantis, the Republican governor of Florida, for not answering the call he made to investigate the recent storms in the state, but Biden praised DeSantis and called him “compassionate”. and described as “collaborative”. (A person familiar with the situation told Axios that Biden had not been briefed on Harris’ comments.)

Also, the difference of opinion between Biden and Harris is also visible in the advertisements they make in their favor. Biden is often eager to tout his record on job creation and ending the port workers union strike, but Harris focuses on voters’ livelihood and financial concerns.

One of the informed sources involved in the Harris campaign told Axios: “The White House does not have anyone who thinks first and foremost about the impact of issues on the election campaign.”

The scope of tensions between Biden and Harris has also reached the level of their staff.

While Tim Harris has been looking to hire new staff in the Office of the Vice President with the aim of reducing workload, he is unhappy that the White House is not moving fast enough to hire new staff.

Although the White House is apparently trying to help Harris’ team, it is unhappy with some rules regarding the selection of people and when they are employed.

Some of Biden’s aides have also joined Kazar Harris, but some of them feel that the team close to Biden views them as traitors for leaving or even thinking about leaving.

“Everyone from the president himself down to the lower ranks knows how important the election is, and we’ve always anticipated that some staffers might want to leave the administration and join the campaign,” a White House official told Axios.

Even the scope of the differences between Biden and Harris has been extended to the staff of the US vice president’s campaign.

A group of these staffers who were on Biden’s staff before he dropped out of the presidential race have been at loggerheads with new staffers loyal to Harris who have been hired for the vice president’s staff in recent weeks.

“In the weeks after Harris clinched the Democratic nomination, there was a tussle over whether Biden’s main televised representatives would continue or be replaced by new faces,” two sources familiar with the matter told Axios.

The winner of this conflict was Tim Harris, which led to the emergence of new representatives.

Several members of Harris’ team also do not have a favorable opinion of the Biden staffers they are currently working with.

In the weeks after the American president’s disastrous performance in the first election debate with Donald Trump, the team close to Biden publicly said that Kamala Harris has less ability to win the election than Biden.

“Rob Flaherty,” Biden’s deputy chief of staff, addressed the US president’s supporters in letters after the debate, citing poll data: “Ultimately, we will go to the candidates who, according to the polls, have a lower chance of winning the election than Biden.” become “Biden is the only person who has been able to defeat Donald Trump.”

White House spokesman Andrew Bates told Axios: “Biden immediately backed Harris, his running mate, and rejected other approaches that would split the party.” “He has recognized Harris’ leadership abilities and has consistently made his support clear.”

“While we ensure that all important White House functions are fully operational, we have made significant changes to ensure that the Vice President’s team has all the support and resources they need,” he added.

A White House spokesman said Harris’ leadership team had been invited to strategic planning meetings.

According to Axios, past trends show that such tensions between the Biden and Harris teams are inevitable.

Although Biden’s resignation in the middle of the election campaign and the replacement of his deputy as the candidate of the Democrats at a late stage of the election campaign is a historical event, but past events have shown that whenever the vice president in the United States is officially nominated for the presidential election, Biben will witness conflict and disagreement. His employees and government employees where he is the vice president and is spending his last months.

Such a process occurred in 2000 between Al Gore and Bill Clinton and in 1988 between George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan.

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