A new book from New York Times journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns apparently set Kamala Harris’s hair on fire. Apparently, Harris is a major diva who threw a tantrum when some staffers didn’t stand whenever she entered the room.
Politico reported on several excerpts of the book due out May 3 titled “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” and detailed several other instances that had apparently set Harris off.
First was the Vogue cover photo, which was leaked two weeks prior to the inauguration — and, according to the book, was not the photo Harris had expected. Despite weeks of campaigning in her signature Converse sneakers, Harris apparently felt that the cover photo featuring her wearing them, along with a pair of skinny pants, was “an approachable but less than grand depiction of the incoming vice president.”
“Harris was wounded. She felt belittled by the magazine, asking aides: Would Vogue depict another world leader this way?” Martin and Burns wrote, noting that after Harris’ objections, Vogue ultimately sold a limited edition issue with the photo the Vice President had preferred.
Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour understandably said at the time that she had chosen the photo that she felt was more “relatable.”
That answer wasn’t good enough for Diva Harris. Apparently she saw blood and was only enraged further when Biden’s team was at odds with her team. They warned her that now was “not the time” to wage war with Vogue, particularly over an issue that was viewed by the president’s staff as primarily “aesthetic.”
“It was an early indication that members of the Biden-Harris teams were on different pages with different priorities. The dynamic didn’t improve from there,” the Politico report continued. “Martin and Burns document an increasingly fraught relationship between the West Wing and the vice president’s office filled with anger, eye-rolling, portfolio feuds, and real and perceived slights.”
Among those slights was the fact that Biden’s staffers, who stood when he entered a room, did not do the same for Harris — a move that she interpreted as “a sign of disrespect.”
I suspect her attitude and diva nature is why Harris is having a hard time keeping staffers. What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.
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