Biden Communications Staffer Blames Harris for Failing to Meet ‘Sky-High Expectations’: Book

A top White House communications staffer is reportedly pointing the finger at Vice President Kamala Harris for perceived failures to meet “sky-high expectations.”

According to Politico’s Playbook, part of a forthcoming book by The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns examines President Joe Biden’s first year in office and details “frustrations at the highest echelons of the White House between the Biden and Harris camp.”

While Biden reportedly warned staff about stoking negative stories about his vice president, one senator told Martin and Burns that Harris’ “frustration level” about her “predicament” is “up in the stratosphere” and said her “political decline was a ‘slow-rolling Greek tragedy.'”

As the outlet notes, “Harris allies complained throughout the first year of the administration that she was handed an impossible portfolio.”

In one example of a source of friction, Harris reportedly blamed Biden in part for the stalled voting rights push — one of the issues she was tapped to head up — because he was reluctant to call for changes to the Senate filibuster.

Politico reports, “Harris told Biden aides that she couldn’t be as forceful publicly as she wanted to be. She told him she couldn’t go all out until ‘voters knew that Biden himself was willing to back the procedural steps required to’ pass legislation.””