Since she has become the Democrat presidential nominee, Kamala Harris has turned dodging and weaving around what she knew of Joe Biden’s cognitive issues into an art form at times, saying after the most recent question asked by NBC News that the reporter should feel free to ask Biden the question, not her.
Indeed, the question about what she knew was one of the few contentious moments during that interview, which aired last Tuesday. Anchor Hallie Jackson tried every which way she could to get Harris to admit what she really saw from Biden the last three and a half years considering she’s his VP.
After pointing out that the whole reason Harris was now the nominee was because of Biden’s disastrous debate performance and the fallout that followed, Harris replied “Well, you’d have to ask him if that’s the only reason why.”
It’s an insult to the intelligence of the American people for Harris to continue to act like she knew nothing about the apparent issues with Biden’s state of mind. But though she won’t directly admit to what she witnessed, those close to her are spilling the beans, something we learned quite by accident thanks to a New York Times piece that tackled the subject of the Harris campaign purposely avoiding joint campaign visits with Biden down the homestretch.
My colleague Bob Hoge reported on the issue Sunday, citing an Axios story – denied by the Biden White House – about how the Harris campaign wanted to keep Biden at arm’s length because they considered him a political liability.
While the Times story, which came out Monday, seems to back-up the crux of the Axios piece, contained within the Times article was this little nugget (bolded emphasis added):