Biden was annoyed with Kamala Harris, called her a 'work in progress' in his first month, according to new book



A new book details the annoyance and frustration President Joe Biden felt with Vice President Kamala Harris — he apparently called her a "work in progress" in his first month as president.

The revelations come from an upcoming book from Chris Whipple documenting Biden's successes in his first term.

Whipple says sources confirmed to him that Harris' husband, Douglass Emhoff, had been complaining that the policy portfolio given to Harris had hurt her politically.

Biden was reportedly annoyed with his vice president.

“He hadn’t asked Harris to do anything he hadn’t done as vice president — and she’d begged him for the voting rights assignment," Whipple wrote.

A previous report from November 2021 said that members of Harris' coterie were angry with the president's team because they believed that the vice president was being set up for failure by their policy assignments. That report found that the president's team accused Harris of incompetence and generally being ill-prepared for meetings.

A spokesperson for the White House issued a brief statement about the latest claims from Whipple's book.

“We respect that there will be no shortage of books written about the administration containing a wide variety of claims," said Robyn Patterson.

"We don’t plan to engage in confirmations or denials when it comes to the specifics of those claims," she added. "The author did not give us a chance to verify the materials that are attributed here.”

Another report said Harris staffers believed the all-white staff for the president was disrespectful to her.

A poll from August 2021 found that a majority of Americans, 55%, said that Harris was not qualified to assume the duties of the presidency should anything happen to Biden. Only 43% said she was "qualified" or "somewhat qualified" to assume the presidency.

Here's more about the tension in the White House:

There are 'real and deep tensions' between Kamala Harris and Joe Bidenwww.youtube.com

Kamala Harris blunders about NATO again, this time in a deleted tweet



Vice President Kamala Harris was caught in a precarious blunder again when she implied in a tweet that Ukraine was a part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin has cited the possibility of Ukraine joining NATO as part of his justification for invading the former Soviet republic as a matter of national defense.

"When I was in Poland, I met with U.S. and Polish service members, thanking them for standing with our NATO allies for freedom, peace, and security," read the tweet from the @KamalaHarris account. "The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance."

Harris' false claim that Ukraine had already joined NATO was an embarrassing and potentially harmful blunder.

That tweet was deleted and replaced with one clarifying that the U.S. stood behind Ukraine and also behind NATO.

When I was in Poland, I met with U.S. and Polish service members, thanking them for standing with our NATO allies for freedom, peace, and security.\n\nThe United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people and in defense of the NATO alliance.pic.twitter.com/Mt4vzAWglg
— Kamala Harris (@Kamala Harris) 1647393661

Harris had made the exact same mistake in a speech on Saturday at the winter meeting of the Democratic National Committee in Washington D.C.

"Russia’s invasion threatens not just Ukraine’s democracy, it threatens democracy and security across Europe," Harris said during her speech. "So I will say what I know we all say, and I will say over and over again: The United States stands firmly with the Ukrainian people in defense of the NATO alliance."

The White House altered the transcript of the event to add the word "and" in parenthesis to fix the gaffe.

After deleted the tweet, Harris' office blamed the DNC for the mistake.

"The 'and' was omitted by accident, so we took it down and reposted with the correct remarks," the DNC said in an email to Fox News.

The vice president's office has been plagued by staffers leaving amidst rumors of dysfunction and contentious bickering with the president's staff. Harris has been accused by some of being unprepared for media briefings and other official meetings.

Here's more about Harris' NATO blunder:

White House changes Kamala Harris' 'mistake' in official transcriptwww.youtube.com