Posted on 05/20/2021 6:47:33 PM PDT by simpson96
The relationship between the Bidens and Vice President Kamala Harris purportedly became messy after Harris -- then Joe Biden’s opponent in the primary -- came after him for his record on busing and his boasts of his relationships with segregationist senators, according to journalist Edward Isaac Dovere.
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Harris’ team told the then-candidate she "had to land hard on Biden" in the next debate, Dovere writes. Harris was apparently reluctant, as she’d developed a close relationship with the Biden family.
"She was searching for some way to condemn him for what he had said and done without attacking the man she liked and respected," according to the book.
"I’m going to now direct this at Vice President Biden:
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Joe Biden had leaned over to fellow Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg during a commercial break.
"That was some f---ing bullsh--," he said, Dovere writes, citing multiple people to whom the conversation was relayed afterward.
Asked about Harris’ rising poll numbers, Biden told reporters sarcastically at the time: "I was probably overly polite in the way I didn’t respond to an attack, ‘You’re not a racist’ – which is a nice thing to say, really reassuring."
"With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis?" Jill Biden reportedly said of Harris on a phone call with close supporters a week later. "Go ---- yourself."
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Jill has to protect the off shore account numbers.
Finally, I agree with Jill Biden.
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