Kamala Harris Throws Shade at Joe Biden on COVID Response – Opinion

Kamala Harris showed that there’s a widening gap with Joe Biden the other day. According to Wall Street Journal, she claimed that Joe and her had not discussed re-election despite Joe Biden announcing that Joe would run again via White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.

The awkward question remained: Why did Biden tell Psaki Kamala but not Psaki? It seemed that this confirmed the problems Biden had with Harris. It was also clear that she did not seem to grasp the problem she was referring to.

The White House had to try to clean up her comments by saying that yes, Biden would be running again — with Harris.

REPORTER: When the President says that he will run again, does he mean with Harris on his ticket?

Jean-Pierre, laughing: “Yes. He does. He doesn’t want to change. Yes. Yes.” pic.twitter.com/hDUkrloX6g

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) December 16, 2021

But they couldn’t effectively explain away Kamala’s comments.

Now she’s given another interview, with the Los Angeles Times, and she’s effectively throwing Biden under the bus in it.

She took a swipe at Joe Biden for essentially declaring independence from COVID on July 4, saying that, “We have not been victorious over it.” She also blamed the scientists they relied on for not being better prepared for the Delta or Omicron variants.

‘I don’t think that in any regard anyone can claim victory when, you know, there are 800,000 people who are dead because of this virus.’

The vice president also insisted that the virologists ‘upon whose advice and direction we have relied’ were blind to the next wave and was sure to note that the Biden administration ‘didn’t see’ Delta and Omicron coming.

‘We didn’t see Delta coming,’ Harris told the paper.

‘I think most scientists did not – upon whose advice and direction we have relied – didn’t see Delta coming.’

There were already multiple variants identified before Biden and Harris took over, so saying that they didn’t see variants coming is roughly equivalent to saying we’re ignorant as to what had already happened, as well as the science of viruses and how they would continue to evolve.

Harris stated that one of her greatest regrets was not being able to fight myths surrounding the vaccine and virus.

‘I would take that more seriously,’ she said of the misinformation.

‘The biggest threat still to the American people is the threat to the unvaccinated.

‘And most people who believe in the efficacy of the vaccine and the seriousness of the virus have been vaccinated. That troubles me deeply.’

However, she raised questions about vaccines when Donald Trump was President. Perhaps she needs to take a look at her own actions.

While Biden was questioning whether the vaccine was “real,” his running mate Kamala Harris was also working to undermine vaccine confidence.

Harris refused to answer a question about whether she would accept a vaccine approved prior to the election.

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— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 6, 2021

It’s a little disingenuous to claim now that she’s fighting misinformation given that history. As Joe Biden did, she continued to denounce the unvaccinated. And if she’s concerned about misinformation, she may want to have a chat with Joe Biden about his continuing false claim that the vaccinated can’t pass the virus.

I’m not sure what she thinks she gains by throwing shade at Biden over the COVID response. It isn’t like she isn’t part of the “Biden-Harris” Administration and people aren’t going to blame her as well. It might be hurtful for Joe but it also hurts her. It doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence that she’s saying they couldn’t anticipate that more variants might emerge. Joe Biden made a mockery of her during Bob Dole’s state ceremonies. The war seems to be on.