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Is Joe Biden plotting with House Democrats to replace Kamala Harris?
Sure looks that way, given some curious goings on reported by Fox News's straight-news congressional correspondent, Chad Pergram:
According to the Daily Mail's report on the matter, citing Fox News's Jesse Watters show, where Pergram appeared:
'Our Capitol Hill Correspondent Chad Pergram tells us he's been hearing whispers suggesting there could be some new high-profile confirmation hearings on the horizon in the House of Representatives,' said Watters during the segment.
'Why is this a big deal? Because the house does not confirm normal nominees. But it does confirm vice-presidential nominees. Does this have something to do with Kamala Harris? It's been no secret she's been running out of favor with the Biden team,' he added.
...and...
'There is a lot of conjecture right now about the future of Vice President Harris and her lagging poll numbers,' Pergram said after Watters welcomed him on the segment.
'So I got a message recently from someone who knows Capitol Hill very well and they suggested I should familiarize myself with the process to confirm a vacancy for the vice president in the Senate and in the House,' Pergram added.
Pergram cautioned that this was amorphous stuff but that he nevertheless thinks something is going on.
It follows from news that Joe's team embarrassingly slighted her at the signing ceremony for their porkulus infrastructure bill, something Harris actually worked on, but the White House seemed to have "forgot."
Harris has proven herself to be well beneath her office, given her gaffes, blunders, staff flight, and failure to do her job, and she sports public approval polling numbers well below Joe's, currently at 41% in the RealClearPolitics average.
The Pergram report follows from another rumor just a day ago of a Biden plan to kick Harris upstairs:
Rumors have circulated that Biden may even be considering nominating Harris for a Supreme Court seat if one becomes vacant so that he can select a new Vice President. While White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki tweeted that Harris is a "vital partner" to Biden, the fact that the administration even felt the need to try and quell such reports suggests that they may not be entirely unfounded.
Harris herself, according to AMAC writer Shane Harris, is "an unusually Machiavellian Vice President who is openly plotting to eventually take the reins."
She's bit back against the CNN exposé with Biden-is-racist charges, which appeared in a long CNN piece by Edward-Isaac Dovere and a colleague. That undoubtedly scares Joe, though it certainly didn't stop Harris from joining Joe as his running mate. It has since prompted a Sunday-night "nice doggie" round of praise tweets about Harris from his spokesweasel, Jen Psaki,
There was also an incident yesterday where Harris, or someone on her team, blurred the presidential seal as Joe signed his bloated infrastructure bill. The reasons are unknown for that, possibly copyright or conflict of interest, and such blurrings have reportedly occurred before. But it's also possible it was a smack against Joe and his illegitimate presidency. Given the backbiting, it's natural to think that.
Also, she's brought up the 25th Amendment in a "non-joking" way, according to a source of Jack Posobiec's last August. I wrote about that here. So now it seems that Old Joe is doing the same for her.
What's significant about that is that Joe has decades of friendships, alliances, and honor-among-thieves relationships throughout Congress. Harris, by contrast, has few allies, given her self-serving and ambitious nature. Whose plotting is likely to have more legs? Obviously, Joe's.
All the same, it might not involve Joe or his crony relationships; it most likely would involve political strategizing among the Democrats in the interest of political survival. Everyone knows that senile old poopy-pants Joe is not up to the job and is wearing out far faster than anticipated as a placeholder for Democrats. But getting Joe out means bringing Kamala Harris in, another unacceptable solution even to Democrats, who don't like her. The plan may well be to knock out Harris quickly, position someone they want in the vice presidential slot, and then commence to take out old Joe, likely by the 25th Amendment. That might stanch the expected bloodletting in the 2022 midterm election, if all goes according to plan.
Such plots usually do not. What we see here now, though, is pretty close to open warfare between Joe and Kamala, and it's only going to get uglier.
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White House Insiders: Kamala Harris Bitter over Biden’s Favoritism Toward ‘White Man’ Pete Buttigieg
Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly bitter over President Joe Biden’s favoritism toward “white man” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
The feud is reportedly fueled by Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, which will render Buttigieg a key power broker in Washington, DC.
With Harris’s hopes to succeed Biden in 2024, Harris is reportedly “suspicious” of Buttigieg’s increased Biden-given power to allocate $550 billion of the transportation bill while she is tasked with solving the southern border crisis and destroying election integrity measures around the nation, two jobs that have proven difficult for the Biden-Harris administration to address.
“Armed with that much money and significant latitude in how to spend it, Buttigieg is poised to be the most influential secretary of transportation ever,” Senior Fellow Jeff Davis at the Eno Center for Transportation told the Associated Press.
To make matters worse, Harris and her team are reportedly furious that Biden’s press shop has defended Buttigieg’s months-long paternity leave during the supply chain crisis. Harris’s aides feel the vice president has not given her the same protection from the media over failing to solve the border crisis and passing anti-election integrity measures.
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg with his husband and newborn twins (MSNBC)
“It’s hard to miss the specific energy that the White House brings to defend a White man, knowing that Kamala Harris has spent almost a year taking a lot of the hits that the West Wing didn’t want to take themselves,” a former Harris aide told CNN about White House infighting.
Buttigieg, former mayor of South Bend, who needed help from a pizza company to fix roads in the city, may have his eye on the White House in 2024 or 2028, placing him at odds with Harris, who reportedly feels Biden is not properly grooming her for a presidential bid. Harris’s favorability ratings are currently resting below 30 percent.
Harris’s “suspicion,” which “sprouted out of the bitterness” toward Buttigieg, caused press secretary Jen Psaki to defend the vice president Sunday night.
Upon media stories released Sunday praising Buttigieg while exposing Harris, Psaki praised the vice president for “facing” the important challenges of the nation, such as “voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband.”
“For anyone who needs to hear it, the Vice President is not only a vital partner to the president but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country — from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband,” Psaki tweeted.
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Trouble in Paradise: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris Sour on Each Other
The relationship between President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris has shown signs of fracture, with CNN now reporting that the two have grown increasingly at odds.
“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,” CNN began its lengthy report on Sunday.
With multiple polls putting Kamala Harris’s approval rating even lower than Joe Biden’s dismal 37.8 percent while rumors swirl that the president may not seek reelection in 2024, Democrats are scrambling to find the future leader of the party. Inside the White House, reports indicate that Team Harris has grown increasingly frustrated with Team Biden for essentially sidelining her despite her status as the first female vice president of color.
“Many in the vice president’s circle fume that she’s not being adequately prepared or positioned, and instead is being sidelined,” noted CNN. “The vice president herself has told several confidants she feels constrained in what she’s able to do politically.”
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks as U.S. President Joe Biden looks on in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 26, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Kamala Harris and her team have since been walking a tightrope, fearing that if she appears too ambitious, then Team Biden will suspect disloyalty.
“Harris’ staff has repeatedly failed her and left her exposed, and family members have often had an informal say within her office,” CNN said insiders told them. “Even some who have been asked for advice lament Harris’ overly cautious tendencies and staff problems, which have been a feature of every office she’s held.”
Insiders have speculated that Biden modeled his relationship with the office of the vice president after his former boss, President Obama, relegating Harris to a more ceremonial role rather than a historic one in which she actively plays a role in carrying out his agenda. Insiders, however, believe that Joe Biden did not adequately calibrate his experience as vice president “to someone with far different qualifications and skills.”
Even occasions in which it appeared that Kamala Harris played a greater role in the Biden administration, such as during the Afghanistan withdrawal, insiders say she expressed dismay in private over her lack of involvement.
“Harris has also complained to confidants about not being a greater part of the President’s approach to the Afghanistan withdrawal — despite telling CNN at the time she was the last one in the room when he made the decision — leaving her without more to draw on when she defended him publicly,” the outlet noted.
An anonymous Democratic Party donor lamented that President Biden has failed to put Kamala Harris in a position to lead, setting her up for failure.
“Kamala Harris is a leader but is not being put in positions to lead. That doesn’t make sense. We need to be thinking long term, and we need to be doing what’s best for the party,” said the donor. “You should be putting her in positions to succeed, as opposed to putting weights on her. If you did give her the ability to step up and help her lead, it would strengthen you and strengthen the party.”
Joe Biden (with Kamala Harris) Accepts the Nomination for the Democratic Party’s Ticket for President of the United States – Wilmington, DE – August 20, 2020
Beyond the sidelining, insiders also feel that the Biden administration has not done enough to curtail partisan attacks on her from the conservatives. One former Harris aide even suggested race may be a factor, considering that the White House jumped at the opportunity to defend Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg when it was revealed that he went on three months paternity leave during the supply-chain crisis.
“It’s hard to miss the specific energy that the White House brings to defend a White man, knowing that Kamala Harris has spent almost a year taking a lot of the hits that the West Wing didn’t want to take themselves,” said the former aide.
Insiders said that the Biden administration believes it can only help heal Kamala Harris of so many of her self-inflicted wounds, such as when she “didn’t push back on a student who accused Israel of ‘ethnic genocide.'”
Going forward, the tensions will likely only deepen as Kamala Harris continues to find her footing. With Joe Biden’s steadily declining approval rating, his closes aides will have no choice but to focus on keeping the president’s agenda afloat, fearing that the Democrats could suffer a crushing defeat in the 2022 midterms.
Hours after the CNN report on Sunday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki immediately leaped to defend Kamala Harris, praising her for a variety of unimportant tasks, such as “expanding broadband.”
“For anyone who needs to hear it. @VP is not only a vital partner to @POTUS but a bold leader who has taken on key, important challenges facing the country—from voting rights to addressing root causes of migration to expanding broadband,” tweeted Psaki.
In a statement to CNN, Psaki hailed Harris as “an incredibly important partner” of the president with a supportive team around her. “I will say that the vice president is an incredibly important partner to the President of the United States. She has a challenging job, a hard job, and she has a great supportive team of people around her. But other than that, I’m not going to have any more comments on those reports,” said Psaki.
Sabrina Singh, deputy press secretary to the vice president, also told CNN in a statement that Kamala Harris will continue to focus on supporting President Biden’s agenda.
“The Vice President and her office are focused on the Biden-Harris Administration’s agenda to build an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down, to making sure racial equity is at the core of everything the Administration does, to combatting the existential threat of climate change, and to continue protecting the American people from the Covid-19 pandemic,” Singh said.
BIDEN SAYS FORGET ABOUT AMNESTY!!! WE'VE BEEN RUNNING OPEN BORDERS AND NO ENFORCEMENT FOR DECADES NOW!
First, the criminal elements in Mexico have been emboldened by President Biden's border policy.
Poll: Joe Manchin’s Constituents Oppose Amnesty, Want Less Immigration to U.S.
Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) constituents in West Virginia are deeply opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens and want less legal immigration overall to the United States, a new poll finds.
A Rasmussen Reports survey reveals that a wide majority of West Virginia voters do not support an amnesty plan slipped into President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better Act” which would allow close to seven million illegal aliens to secure work permits and driver’s licenses.
About 63 percent of West Virginia voters said they do not support the amnesty plan, while about 31 percent said they do support the plan. Large majorities across racial lines said they oppose the amnesty, including 74 percent of Hispanics, 71 percent of black Americans, and 62 percent of white Americans.
The amnesty plan is especially opposed by West Virginia swing voters. About 66 percent said they do not support the plan, while only 25 percent said they do.
In addition, 65 percent of West Virginia voters said they would be less likely to vote for Manchin or other politicians who support the amnesty in the Build Back Better Act.
When it comes to legal immigration levels, where about 1.2 million foreign nationals are awarded green cards every year and another million are provided visas to work in the U.S., West Virginia voters support reductions.
About 7-in-10 legal immigrants, for instance, arrive through the process known as “chain migration” whereby naturalized American citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the U.S. on green cards.
About 63 percent of West Virginia voters said they are opposed to the policy and 72 percent do not want chain migration extended to illegal aliens who would be eligible for the amnesty plan included in the Build Back Better Act.
Majorities of Republicans, Democrats, and swing voters in West Virginia said they are opposed to chain migration.
The poll comes as similar polling has shown that Arizona likely voters are mostly opposed to the amnesty plan. Support from Manchin, who is facing reelection in 2024, along with Sens. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) is vital to Biden’s Build Back Better Act.
The legislation, with the help of 28 vulnerable House Democrats, was passed out of the House last week after 32 House and Senate Republicans helped Biden pass his $1.2 trillion infrastructure package.
The poll was conducted from November 16 and 17 and surveyed nearly 1,200 likely West Virginia voters. The poll has a margin of error of +/- three percentage points.
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