Vice President Kamala Harris’ “gamesmanship” with her staff reportedly became an issue, according to a new book.
The forthcoming book by Chris Whipple obtained by The Washington Examiner reported that a former aide said Harris engaged in “really unnecessary gamesmanship” with her staff.
The aide claimed the behavior was a result of “deep, deep insecurity.”
According to the book, the aide also said she “refused to do the kind of preparation that you need to do before going public on a hardcore policy matter. And then she became incensed and outraged when things wouldn’t go the way she thought they were supposed to. There was a lot of magical thinking.”
Additionally, the former aide suggested it is “helpful for people to know that this is not new, and it will inhibit any administration that she is the leader of,” according to the book.
The individual pushed back against the claim that Harris receives criticism for her race and gender.
“When somebody raises an issue about Kamala, everybody’s like, you don’t want to see black women succeed. That’s completely backward. Everybody who goes to work for Kamala, by definition, wants to see her succeed. That’s why you take these jobs,” the former aide said.
Another former staffer of Harris’, Gil Duran, told the author of the book that the vice president’s team as California attorney general often had to deal “with her dysfunction.”
In Whipple’s book, Duran says Harris is “impossible to manage,” as the Examiner reported.
“The amount of stress she created by constantly being impossible to manage and taking out all her stresses on staff — usually women, or people who were not in great positions of authority — was just kind of unbearable,” Duran explained.
The book titled, “The Fight of His Life,” has made other claims about Harris.
President Joe Biden allegedly expressed his frustration with Harris during the initial part of their administration, as IJR reported.
Biden heard Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff was complaining about Harris’ policy portfolio, according to the report.
“Biden was annoyed,” the author wrote.
Whipple declared Biden “hadn’t asked Harris to do anything he hadn’t done as vice president — and she’d begged him for the voting rights assignment.”
The president allegedly called Harris a “work in progress.”
