If Joe Biden wanted Kamala Harris to lose, what would he be doing differently? That’s a question worth asking after the president once again took a baseball bat to his vice president’s campaign for the White House.
Since Harris shoved Biden under the bus and announced her presidential run, she has been desperately trying to separate herself from the administration she serves in. Numerous times, she’s quipped that she’s “obviously not Joe Biden” while her allies in the press have repeatedly asserted that the vice president has no power and is not responsible for any of the failures of the last four years.
For his part, Biden just keeps tearing down that narrative in no uncertain terms. On Friday, he showed up in the White House briefing room and again reiterated that Harris owns every part of the administration’s policies and decision-making. For context, he did the same thing while appearing on “The View” in late September, claiming that he had delegated most tasks to the vice president.
REPORTER: There have obviously been a number of crises that the country has been facing over the past several days, with the hurricane, with the port strike, with the situation in the Middle East. Can you talk about how your vice president, who is running for the presidency, has worked on these crises and what role she has played over the past several days.
BIDEN: Well, she’s, I’m in constant contact with her. She’s aware, we’re all, we’re singing from the same song sheet. We, she helped pass all the laws that are being deployed now. She was a major player in everything we’ve done, including passage of legislation we were told we could never pass. And she’s been, and, her staff is interlocked with mine in terms of all the things we’re doing.