Tensions rise between Harris and Biden teams

[onandup]

The relationship between Kamala Harris’ team and Joe Biden’s White House has been increasingly fraught in the final weeks before Election Day, 10 people familiar with the situation tell Axios. Biden’s team wants Harris to win the election, but many senior Biden aides remain wounded by the president being pushed out of his re-election bid and are still adjusting to being in a supporting role on the campaign trail.

[…]

Some on the Harris team say that top White House aides aren’t sufficiently coordinating Biden’s messaging and schedule to align with what’s best for the vice president’s campaign.

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/13/kamala-harris-biden-campaign-tension?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

With all due respect, anyone on Team Biden worrying about their feelings needs to grow up. Joe endorsed Kamala immediately and is ready to do anything to get her elected, imo. This election is just too damn important.

[Frasier Balzov]

1. It's admirable that they're loyal

but the fate of the country is at stake.

[Think. Again.]

29. it's a bullshit story.

[johnnyfins]

50. Absolutely

Somehow, somewhere, I bet this can be traced back to MAGA fuckery. I aint buyin it.

[JohnSJ]

55. Without a doubt.

[INdemo]

59. Agreed

I always look at the source and the reporter. And yes its a bullshit story

[LeftInTX]

65. Not really campaigns are weird that way.

Campaign teams get caught up in "loyalty" and "cliques". It's weird.

[Think. Again.]

67. Yeah no. This isn't a standard campaign cycle.

[LeftInTX]

68. No seriously. It isn't about the candidate. It's about the people that work for them.

They can be weird and egotistical. They often are thinking of their next gig too. Many will go on to other things in the midterms and they have their loyalties and little teams.

[NotHardly]

32. They need to f*cking get over themselves and think of the country!

[Think. Again.]

54. I strongly doubt any of this is real, please don't go hating on people who don't deserve it.

[Metaphorical]

2. Axios

Take this with a shakerful of salt, given the source (Axios definitely tilts right). It falls into the 'Harris campaign in disarray" category, especially as a significant number of Biden's current staff is out stumping for Harris at this point.

[Dock_Yard]

44. I agree. Axios founder Mike Allen doesn't radiate good vibes as a journalist.

Just my opinion. Their org and choices of stories come off as strange. Monetization oriented?

[Ocelot II]

3. More bullshit from Axios. Don't buy it.

Even if there were some minor disputes, even Axios, with its stupid bullet points, admits at the very end of the article and contrary to its own headline,

"Despite the sore feelings among some Biden aides, much of the president's staff is actively rooting for and trying to work toward a Harris victory.

There is frustration about coordination among senior staffers on both sides, but much of the mid-level staff is working well together, people familiar with the dynamic told Axios.

The White House denied there's tension among senior staffers."

[newdeal2]

4. Sounds like the usual nonsense reporting

They are on the same team and have the same goal. I’m sure reporters can find a few people who have sour grapes to make this seem like a big deal.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Yeah, right. I don't believe this for one bit. Most of the news has been harping against the overwhelming support that

Kamala has and are trying desperately trying to stifle it.

F**k them and the high horse they rode in on. When all of this is said and done, we all need to start going after these traitorous news outlets that harped on tRUMP nonstop, free campaign ads out the wazoo, non-stop, and strip away their publishing rights, as they didn't give equal space/equal reporting (if anything, just to be fair and unbiased, and they are not being that way).

[Ocelot II]

10. "Strip away their publishing rights"? Sounds a bit Trumpish to me.

Trump is threatening to revoke the broadcast licenses of networks whose reporting he dislikes, in blatant disregard of the First Amendment. Let's not be even suggesting anything like that.

[SWBTATTReg]

45. It's tRUMP campaign garbage, and not news. It constantly tRUMP, tRUMP, tRUMP. There used to be a equal

thing going on, they give 10 minutes to tRUMP, then 10 minutes to Kamala. It's not like that anymore.

[Ocelot II]

62. Trump campaign garbage is protected by the First Amendment, like it or not.

And the fairness doctrine was repealed in 1987.

[Alliepoo]

6. I don't pay much attention to right leaning

Axios. I get their daily news in my email and they def lean way right. Sometimes they appear to be balanced but it’s mostly on local reporting, not national.

[elleng]

7. Right, anyone on Team Biden worrying about their feelings needs to grow up.

[displacedvermoter]

14. What indication have you seen that "Team Biden"

has been anything but supportive of the Harris/Walz ticket, besides this article?

[elleng]

18. None, just from this article.

[displacedvermoter]

21. So there really is no need to be calling on anyone to grow up save, perhaps the author of the piece

[ProfessorGAC]

27. If Could Unrec A Post...

.. this would be a post where said capability would come to play.
I don't think DUers come here to be the target of a priggish lecture.

[hlthe2b]

8. So says AXIOS... Please keep the SOURCE in mind.

[Cirsium]

9. Look at all of those words

That article has a lot of words. It has a lot of bullet points, too. Lots of speculation. Lots of nothing.

Way, way down in the article we find this:

"White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told Axios: 'President Biden endorsed Vice President Harris immediately after leaving the race, rejecting other approaches that would divide the party, and has attested to her leadership abilities and continually made clear his support for her.'"

In other words, the entire theme of the article is BS, the usual "Democrats in disarray" idiocy.

[mcar]

12. I don't believe this for a minute

[iemanja]

13. Of course, it should be based on what's best for Harris' campaign

She needs to win. As far as Biden being pushed out, that ship has sailed.

[-misanthroptimist]

15. Geez, sounds like Democrats are screwed!

Or maybe they're not and MSM is just trying to keep people watching and clicking their dubious offerings.

[agingdem]

16. Axios.. another bogus story in their attempt to stay relevant..and failing...

Axios should stick to predicting fashion trends...they suck at politics..

[NoRethugFriends]

17. Ah, June 27th poster. what a shock

[Kid Berwyn]

19. Axios is largely owned by Cox Enterprises

They fund ALEC and such crapola on the Reich.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cox_Enterprises

[WhiteTara]

20. dems in disarry

Doom. Oh, look! Trump stranded a bunch of old people in the desert! Maskarovka at work.

[AwakeAtLast]

24. BINGO!

Nailed it!

[BattleRow]

22. Time to say adios,and axe Axios if

you aks me!

[deminks]

23. Oh bull puckey.

[DFW]

25. What perfectly exquisite timing for this exceedingly important issue

Like Roger Ailes said when he first became boss at Fox "News," and was asked if accuracy in reporting would be a top priority:

"We have an agenda."

Is anyone going to tell me that any other answer is credible when I ask WTF is this article or its posting about?

[usonian]

26. Translation: Someone was stuck in traffic and couldn't sign Doug Emhoff's Birthday Card.

DEMS IN DISARRAY!

[Think. Again.]

28. Disarray!!!

[Lulu KC]

30. Dems in Disarray absurdity

Yawn.

[live love laugh]

31. Yawn 🥱

I call bullshit.

[Blue Owl]

33. .....

[Keepthesoulalive]

34. Talk about flooding the zone with disinformation

Kamala is not having enough rallies, black men are voting for asshole, now Biden and Harris teams are fighting and the polls. We have an election to win not have a constant barrage of nonsense that is seeking to divide us.

[AZLD4Candidate]

35. Biden endorsed Harris. That's it. This is another article trying to show Democrats in disarray

This is a hit piece by Axios! Shame on them!

There's more of a civil war in the Republican Party between MAGAts and non MAGAts. But that would make Orange Hitler look bad.

[LeftInTX]

66. Biden doesn't control his campaign staff.

Campaign teams are their own little universe. They can be petty and cliquey.

Many times the candidate you work for is because "your friends work for them".

[Lulu KC]

36. "Reality check: Tensions between the Biden and Harris teams were likely inevitable."

Like TENSION is so weird!?? Ooooh, there's TENSION! So scary!

How could there not be tension? I would like to see any group of humans in a situation with this much going on at one time who would not feel and display "tension."

It will come out okay in the end between nearly all of these people, and I can't think of any other two leaders who would do a better job at conveying a tone of "we're all on the same team."

[Figarosmom]

37. These people need to get

With the program as the saying goes. We don't need sabotage from our own side. ( again)And of course rumor mongers Axios has to put it out there for trumps team to exploit. The Hill does the same kind of reporting. They both are inside Edition DC. Just tabloids.

[PatrickforB]

38. I'm not buying this. Sorry, but given what we've seen with the lightning speed of Harris getting her

campaign up and running - that HAD to have plenty of direct help from Joe Biden. It just did. I've never seen the Dems move this fast or this efficiently.

Remember that our media is ALL ABOUT shareholder PROFITS, with nothing, and I mean nothing in terms of fiduciary responsibility for TRUTH in news reporting. That's how it is.

This is why we have the 25 right-wing polls that just got released - oh, Trump is AHEAD now! Oh, the Harris campaign's honeymoon is OVER (60 minutes). Oh, Trump is now AHEAD in battle ground states!" Oh, young black men aren't gonna vote for Harris, they want Trump...

And so on, and so on, and scooby dooby doo!

A horserace is GOOD for shareholder PROFITS, don't you know.

This is also why shit like Trump's calls to Putin, the blackmail story about the GOP reps and senators honey-trapped into compromising things like the drug-fueled sex party Gaetz took the HS junior to. And Trump's massive deterioration?

Nope. Bad for PROFITS. We gotta have a HORSERACE, folks!

I'll tell you, the billionaires on Wall Street are rubbing their hands in GLEE, because they are cashing in on this campaign like no other in history. Harris has already raised $1 billion. God only knows how many billions will go down the Wall Street media PROFIT rat-hole before November 5.

The whole thing is a huge PROFIT game for billionaire parasites and big Wall Street fund managers, and they are cashing in!

Make no mistake - these orc-like Wall Street greed lizards care NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING for this republic. Not at all. They are in it for the money.

The only thing that is even propping up truth is the MSNBC crew, and they are there at suffrance, only because there is a market for them, and their ratings are good. But those ratings dip? They will be gone. Because again, the fiduciary responsibility of the senior executives at the NYT, NBC, CBS, ABC and FOX is ONLY to generate shareholder PROFITS, nothing more, nothing less.

[notroot]

39. Bullshit. Axios can go fuck itself with a firehose.

Maybe that'll put out their pants, which are on fire from all the fucking lying.

The MSM only hurts itself with this transparent bullshit.

Best not to spread their lies without the context that they're liars who lie.

[KPN]

40. Baloney! Or as Joe would say "Malarkey!"

Move on folks! Ignore this crap and keep up the fight.

[lees1975]

41. More rumor and inuendo being pushed along by right wingers aimed at discouraging Democrats.

Don't believe a word of this tripe.

[lees1975]

43. When is some real, genuine high quality journalism going to show up and hammer on all of Trump's crimes, extremism,

dementia, mental incapacity and Vance's corruption and incompetence and opportunistic cashing in?

Let's have some real journalists step up to the plate. This is an F minus performance.

[Abundance77]

42. Not Necessary

This article serves no purpose. Please leave this out. Infighting is probably not unusual.
We have so much at stake here. Don't give the GOPs something to exploit.

[dlk]

46. I don't believe it

“Dems in disarray is a tired old trope.” Give it a rest.

[littlemissmartypants]

47. ...

[Kingofalldems]

48. This has a 0% chance of being true.

Did I say 0%?

Zero per cent to put it another way.

[relayerbob]

49. Ignore the noise

These people create scandal to sell clicks and you just helped them out by posting a link to their bullshit

[spudspud]

51. DEMOCRATS IN DISARRAY!! ARGHHH!!

“Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!” Axios's source? No less than 10 people. "Trust me bro."

[RandySF]

53. This is garbage.

[Botany]

56. Codswallop

This isn't a story it is a hit piece.

[brush]

57. Tempest in a teapot. Seriously? Those Biden loyalist better wake up.

What happened is fo the best and is not the VP's fault. They should be proud of Joe's selflessness and the flawless job VP Harris has done.

No time to be grouching and complaining as we need every effort to defeat the orange criminal.

[Miami Blue]

58. I call it BS

Just STOP it ✋🏻
Enough already!
This kind of BS is not helping us unite
to deliver a victory in November.

[TBF]

60. Do I have to go over this again? Axios is owned by Cox Enterprises

Cox Family net worth - $41 billion.

It is in their interest to stir the pot. Why are you helping them?

[Easterncedar]

61. I've never tried to censor a post

But this one seems so clearly to break the rules that I’m tempted.

Please, sensible people, don’t get sucked in by this malicious onsense.

[Kingofalldems]

63. Yeah not a good try there.

[ThePartyThatListens]

64. Isn't AXIOS a Mark Halperin outfit?

He's the MFer that had to be reluctantly dropped by 'Morning Joe' due to his woman molesting ways, or some such thing.

If you believe that outlet then let me interest you in a bridge I have for sale in the borough of Brooklyn.

[obamanut2012]

69. June 27 was a popular day!