President Joe Biden isn’t sure his vice president can beat a Republican in the 2024 presidential election, which one source says is a “factor” in whether he runs for re-election.
Democratic sources told Reuters News Agency that the president is frustrated about the manner in which Kamala Harris does her job.
“A point of tension in their relationship is that I don’t think that the president sees her as somebody who takes anything off of his plate” due to a “fear of messing up,” one former White House official told Reuters.
That has led to his view that Harris can’t win. Biden is “also convinced that neither Harris nor any other Democratic hopefuls would be able to beat former President Donald Trump if he is the Republican nominee, a factor that has influenced Biden’s inclination to run again,” one former White House official told Reuters.
“If he did not think she was capable, he would not have picked her. But it is a question of consistently rising to the…
