{"id":128215,"date":"2022-04-25T01:44:05","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T01:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/jill-biden-reportedly-initially-opposed-kamala-harris-as-vp-pick\/"},"modified":"2022-04-25T01:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T01:44:20","slug":"jill-biden-reportedly-initially-opposed-kamala-harris-as-vp-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/jill-biden-reportedly-initially-opposed-kamala-harris-as-vp-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden Reportedly Initially Opposed Kamala Harris as VP Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jill Biden initially opposed her husband\u00a0picking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Kamala Harris<\/a> as his running mate, according to an excerpt from the new book\u00a0<em>This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America\u2019s Future,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>written\u00a0by <em>New York Times<\/em> reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/24\/jill-biden-was-against-picking-kamala-harris-as-joe-biden-running-mate-new-book-reveals\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Per the <\/a><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/24\/jill-biden-was-against-picking-kamala-harris-as-joe-biden-running-mate-new-book-reveals\/\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0the book quotes Dr. Biden\u00a0as saying, \u201cThere are millions of people in the United States,\u00a0do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden family reportedly believed, per the book, that the VP attacked Biden\u00a0harsher than any other candidate during the Democratic Primary,\u00a0and that they saw it \u201cas a smear and a betrayal.\u201d The First Lady\u2019s uncertainty over the pick followed a moment when Harris\u00a0\u201cattacked\u201d her husband during a Democratic presidential debate, per the book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In June of 2019, during the\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:famously clashed during the first Democratic debate\" data-rapid_p=\"29\" data-v9y=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/27\/us\/politics\/kamala-harris-joe-biden-busing.html\">first Democratic debate<\/a>, Harris notably called out the now-president for working with segregationists in the Senate. Still, people in Biden\u2019s inner circle, including White House Chief of Staff\u00a0Ron Klain, advocated for the VP.\u00a0Stacey Abrams,\u00a0New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were all reportedly under consideration by Biden\u2019s team for the VP role, but they saw Harris as the \u201csafest of choices,\u201d per the book.<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\" \/>\n<p>\u201cChoosing Harris will show people that you are magnanimous and forgiving,\u201d Klain is said to have told Biden. \u201cIt will show the country just what a unifying leader you can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/life\/jill-biden-opposed-kamala-harris-vp-pick\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Biden initially opposed her husband\u00a0picking\u00a0Kamala Harris as his running mate, according to an excerpt from the new book\u00a0This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America\u2019s Future,\u00a0\u00a0written\u00a0by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns. Per the New York Post,\u00a0the book quotes Dr. Biden\u00a0as saying, \u201cThere are millions of people in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,111,572,5,1003,3161,7,8,1080,93,1085],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dc","category-dfp-politics","category-dfp-politics-other","category-featured","category-joe-biden","category-kamala-harris","category-music","category-news","category-presidents","category-tier-one","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128217,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128215\/revisions\/128217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}