Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have never had a good relationship. In fact, Joe never wanted to choose her as his vice president to begin with. He was strongly in favor of picking Gretchen Whitmer over her, but his advisers implored him that selecting an African American woman was a necessity, especially during the year of George Floyd’s death. Biden’s closest confidant, his wife, Jill, was likewise opposed to selecting Harris. Jill retained hurt feelings over Harris’ attack on Biden over busing at a primary debate in 2019, which she saw as an accusation that Biden is racist. When Harris and Biden entered office, their relationship only worsened. By summer, numerous media outlets were reporting that Kamala Harris’s office was in turmoil, as staffers were faced with the same toxic environment that others had experienced under Harris when she was in public office in California. One Harris staffer went as far as to say, “It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s**t.” Biden’s allies were publicly wary of the stories that were coming out of the vice president’s office. Biden’s staff, Politico reported, was “concerned about the way Harris’ staffers [were] treated.” But even apart from that controversy, the West Wing was disillusioned with Harris, as she had seemingly added nothing to the administration’s accomplishments and had only worsened public perceptions of the White House’s response to the crisis at the southern border. (In a disastrous interview with NBC’s Lester Holt, Harris infamously said, “[W]e are going to the border. We’ve been to the border. So this whole thing about the border, we’ve been to the border. We’ve been to the border.”) Harris, for her part, was upset with the responsibilities assigned to her by the White House. She was especially frustrated with her assignment to address immigration’s root causes, as she felt that it had led to her being blamed for the border crisis. Harris also believed Biden and his allies weren’t doing enough to defend her, CNN reported. According to CNN’s account, Harris saw racism in this because the White House had leapt to defend then-Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a white man, when he faced backlash for taking paternity leave during the supply-chain crisis By the fall of 2021, relations between the president and the vice president had reached a new low point. In November, CNN reported: “Worn out by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus, key West Wing aides have largely thrown up their hands at Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff — deciding there simply isn’t time to deal with them right now.” But over the next couple of years of Biden’s presidency, Biden and Harris were able to reach a better balance. Harris never did achieve major accomplishments, but her relations with the president improved due to pressure from liberals who felt that the first African American vice president was being deprived of a major role. For example, the New York Times complained in July 2022 that Harris “hasn’t been given the sort of immersive experiences or sustained, high-profile tasks that would deepen and broaden her expertise in ways Americans could see and appreciate.” By the time Biden faced his reckoning after the disastrous June 27, 2024, presidential debate, relations had improved to the point that the vice president was willing to stick by Biden’s side and maintain her full support. That support only faltered when Biden’s surrogates began disparaging Harris in order to argue that Biden was the best man for the job. When that happened, Harris reached out to Biden’s chief of staff to express her displeasure. When Biden announced that he would drop out of the race, he swiftly endorsed Harris, which, in a matter of hours, ensured her nomination. That was, however, to be the high point of their relationship. During Harris’s election campaign, Biden was largely kept on the sidelines, which offended him. There were also increasing disagreements between their staff on how to coordinate their respective roles as the election got closer. In October, Axios reported that Harris staffers “say that top White House aides aren’t sufficiently coordinating Biden’s messaging and schedule to align with what’s best for the vice president’s campaign.” It would get much worse. Later that month, Biden managed to diminish Harris’s election chances at a critical moment. While Harris was delivering a key address, the then-president suggested that Trump supporters were “garbage.” After Harris’s election loss, relations between Biden and Harris fell to their lowest point ever. Biden, instead of standing fully by his vice president’s side, decided to brag that he would have defeated Trump had he stayed in the race. The implication was clear: The loss was Kamala’s fault. The news of Biden’s bold claim first came from the Washington Post. The paper, alongside reporting that Biden was telling staffers “that he could have defeated Trump” and that he regretted dropping out of the race, claimed that Biden “had been careful not to place blame on Harris or her campaign.” Obviously, however, such a balance was not really possible. Biden then repeated those claims — publicly — to all Americans. In a January interview with USA Today, the president, when asked, “Do you believe you could have won in November?”, responded, “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes.” The Wall Street Journal reported that Harris “conveyed sadness” over those remarks. But really, this is more than just “sadness.” This is full-blown anger. The man who picked her despite not liking her, who refused to give her any responsibilities she actually wanted, who failed to defend her, and who governed so poorly that she lost her election bid is now claiming Trump’s win is all her fault — further threatening her hopes to win the governorship of California in 2026 or the presidency in 2028. Her entire foray as Joe Biden’s vice president has been an abject disaster for her. And much of that, Harris would be right to believe, is Joe Biden’s fault. Harris’s anger was on full display at Jimmy Carter’s funeral. She and her husband, Doug Emhoff, remained stone-faced and practically refused to glance at Jill and Joe Biden, whom they were seated next to. They didn’t even greet one another. But Emhoff better hope that Kamala stays focused on her anger at Biden so she doesn’t start thinking too much about how his own scandals — a child with a nanny and an allegation of domestic violence — hurt her campaign. 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