Barack Obama joined the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. Will incumbent President Joe Biden be doing the same for Kamala Harris?
In fact, in no uncertain terms, I think the message Kamala’s people delivered to Biden’s staff was that the Delaware liberal should stay the hell away from her. It’s the final chapter in a long story between the two camps fraught with reported animosity, where the vice president’s aides believe that Biden was actively engaging in a campaign of sabotage.
Biden remains unpopular, with Kamala being unable to break free from the administration she still serves, which has been a sticky point for her campaign. She can’t define herself, which is bad. Her inability to say how she’d be different from Joe is equally incompetent.
I guess when all else fails, physical separation is all you can do this late in the game (via NBC News):
With just two weeks left in the 2024 campaign, there are currently no plans for Vice President Kamala Harris to appear on the trail with President Joe Biden before Election Day, according to three Harris campaign officials and three White House officials.
Instead, Biden plans to try to help Harris this week by privately leveraging some of his longtime political relationships, specifically with labor leaders, and holding official White House events that highlight his administration’s record, officials said. His schedule in the final week before the election has not yet been determined, they said.