Biden knows VP Harris ‘not up to the job,’ preferred Gretchen Whitmer as ‘20 running mate: book
NY Post
President Biden knows full well Vice President Kamala Harris is “not up to the job” of commander-in-chief — and he preferred Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as his running mate in 2020 before caving to public pressure, according to a new book out Tuesday.
Biden chose Harris days before that year’s virtual Democratic National Convention after promising to select a woman and after pro-Harris lobbying from former President Barack Obama, veteran Washington journalist Charlie Spiering writes in his book “Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House.”
While the 59-year-old Harris is just “a brain stroke away from the presidency,” her “many struggles and mistakes during her first years in office were top of mind” for the now-81-year-old president heading into his re-election campaign, Spiering writes.
Those issues included her “bullying” of White House staff and “refusal to be a team player” with the rest of the administration — as well as her “artificial” public presence, her infamous cackle and her near-constant “word salads” that fail to convey any sort of message.
A steady drip of resignations from the veep’s have come as a result of her “soul-destroying criticism,” one ex-staffer griped to the Washington Post at the end of 2021 — event forcing her to stop using her favorite curse word: “motherf—er.”
The “hilarious, incompetent, trailblazing radical” suffered “disastrous and comical first years as vice president,” Spiering adds, noting her limited authority as the Biden administration’s border czar.
