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Kamala Harris’s ‘Joe Biden’ problem

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden (Credit: Getty images)

As Hurricane Milton battered Florida last week, Kamala Harris did her best to look and sound presidential. The Vice President hosted a live broadcast with the leadership of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. She then called into CNN, live, to reassure Americans that her administration was tackling the crisis. The message was meant to be clear: she’s got this. 

Alas, Joe Biden also wanted to show that he’s in charge and that muddled matters. On Friday, the actual Commander-in-Chief gave an emergency press conference about the disaster from the White House briefing room, which rather overshadowed Harris’s big rally that day in the critical swing state of Michigan. 

Joe and his wife Jill are said to still be secretly fuming about the way he was forced to move aside

Harris and Biden are not, it seems, singing from the same electoral hymn sheet. The disharmony is starting to make itself heard. Last week, Harris also attacked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for being ‘selfish’ in his response to Milton.

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