Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as running mate in 2020 election under pressure from Barack Obama, reveals book
Kamala Harris was not Joe Biden's first choice as his running mate because he knew that she was not up to the job. He preferred Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer as his running mate in 2020 but succumbed to public pressure. Veteran Washington journalist Charlie Spiering has made this startling revelation in his book 'Amateur Hour: Kamala Harris in the White House'. He has written in the book that Biden chose Harris days before that year’s virtual Democratic National Convention after promising to select a woman. He also wrote that Biden chose Kamala Harris under pressure from former President Barack Obama.
Not Jill Biden's choice
The book reveals that Harris was also not the choice of Biden’s wife, Jill. She favored former Obama national security adviser Susan Rice for the role and had fumed to close supporters after a bitter Democratic primary debate.
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Charlie Spiering also wrote about her 'bullying' of White House staff and “refusal to be a team player” with the rest of the administration. The book also contains materials about her «artificial» public presence, her infamous cackle and her near-constant «word salads» that fail to convey any sort of message.
Book criticizes Kamala Harris
Spiering writes in the book that a steady drip of resignations from the veep’s staff have come as a result of her “soul-destroying criticism.”.
The book says that after working together for about four years, Biden is in the middle of another campaign with the same running mate and asking a question that has become something of a “popular parlor game in Washington”, “How do you fix Kamala Harris?”
Black woman
The book says that Kamala Harris remained the only black woman in the
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