A new book is alleging that Jill Biden called out her husband’s team during the election, questioning why Kamala Harris was being chosen as his running mate.
In their book “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns claim that Jill was not happy that Harris was picked to be Joe’s Vice President.
“Speaking in confidence with a close adviser to her husband’s campaign, the future First lady posed a pointed question,” Martin and Burns wrote, according to The Hill. “There are millions of people in the United States, she began. Why, she asked, do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?”
Jill was apparently referring to Harris slamming Joe for his record on race during a 2019 debate in which she brought up him opposing bussing and his previous relationship with segregationist senators.
“With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis?” Jill reportedly said afterwards during a call with supporters of her husband. “Go f— yourself.”
Jill did not deny these reports, instead saying in March of 2020 that she and Harris had “moved on from that.” Her spokesman Michael LaRosa said this week that the First Lady will not be commenting on books about the 2020 election.
Martin and Burns also claimed in their new book that the relationship between Harris and Joe is “friendly but not close,” adding that “their weekly lunches lacked a real depth of personal and political intimacy.” They allege that Kate Bedingfield, Biden’s communications director, blamed any tensions between Harris and Joe on the vice president herself.
“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,” the book alleges.
Bedingfield, however, has since fired back by saying that “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,” she added.
Martin and Burns’ book is due to be released on May 3. It will certainly be interesting to see what other claims are made in it regarding the president and Vice President.
This piece originally appeared in RobManess.com and is used by permission
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