Biden sabotaging Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign after being pressured to drop re-election bid, pundits say

Et Tu, Biden?

President Biden is so bitter about being pressured to drop his re-election bid by high members of his personal get together that he’s intentionally sabotaging Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign, in response to a rising refrain of political pundits.

Since being pressured out of the race in July over fears about declining cognitive skills, Biden has completed little for Harris past endorsing her, and has largely been a no-show at his vice chairman’s marketing campaign occasions.

He’s additionally pulled the highlight from his supposed successor on quite a few events, together with delivering his personal feedback final week on how the White Home is responding to Hurricane Helene — even after Harris cancelled a Las Vegas marketing campaign occasion and hurried again to DC to be briefed on the storm’s affect.

The lame-duck chief has additionally served up a plethora of cringe-worthy actions which have left Donald Trump-loving conservatives salivating. They embody sporting a “Trump 2024” cap throughout a 9/11 anniversary occasion final month, and praising Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Tuesday for a way he’s prepped the Sunshine State to deal with Hurricane Milton — someday after Harris complained the DeSantis didn’t take her name.

“Biden is deliberately enacting revenge on Kamala for knifing him within the again,” claimed Jason Meister, a Republican political strategist who sits on the advisory board for Trump’s marketing campaign.

“He by no means appreciated her. The happiest he’s appeared in 4 years was when he put a purple [Trump 2024] hat on after talking with Shanksville, [Pa.] firefighters [last month] on 9/11. He ought to simply come out and endorse Trump.”

Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic strategist referred to as Biden’s refusal to embrace Harris’ marketing campaign is a doable “energy transfer” to “be certain that individuals perceive who the boss nonetheless is.”

“It could be completely ridiculous to imagine that he has no resentment over how he was handled or how, frankly, he was pressured out in what some would describe as a coup,” the veteran marketing campaign guide stated.

“Why hasn’t he appeared in locations the place he may do some good, like components of Pennsylvania and states that the president has buoyed throughout his time period? No person desires to surrender being president of the USA – it’s the one job you don’t wish to depart.”

Whereas talking at Trump’s marketing campaign rally in Scranton, Pa., on Wednesday, former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy additionally took a swipe at Biden’s loyalty.

“Someplace deep down inside, in a spot that he doesn’t wish to admit, I feel possibly Joe Biden is definitely rooting for it,” stated Ramaswamy, referring to Trump probably successful the assist of Biden’s hometown and the remainder of the Keystone State.

On Thursday, Ramaswamy doubled down on his remarks, telling The Put up “I feel it’s clear that Joe continues to be bruised by what occurred.”

“I don’t suppose he would have gained [a second term], however in his views, and people of his household, they in all probability suppose that they have been robbed of it,” he added.

Trump marketing campaign spokesperson Caroline Sunshine stated “Harris doesn’t need assistance sabotaging her marketing campaign as a result of she does that herself each time she speaks with out a teleprompter, [but] it’s necessary to recollect there may be completely no daylight between President Biden and Kamala Harris on coverage.”

“Kamala Harris has stated herself she wouldn’t do a single factor in a different way these final 4 years, and our marketing campaign can be reminding voters of this truth on daily basis between now and Nov. 5,” Sunshine stated.

White Home spokesman Andrew Bates stated critics “appear to have missed” that Biden “made clear he was all-in for” Harris “out of the gate when he left the marketing campaign, and has constantly fought for her and praised her management to the nation.

“He believes fiercely in an agenda that can transfer us into the longer term, away from unhinged divisiveness and excessive insurance policies the nation can’t afford to return to, like MAGAnomics and a nationwide abortion ban,” the spokesman stated.

One other Biden camp supply insisted the president was unaware DeSantis refused to take Harris’ name about Hurricane Milton when he referred to as the Florida governor “gracious” and praised him for the state’s response to the hurricane.