Things might be icy between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The two attended former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral on Nov. 20, and the way that they greeted each other has been thoroughly examined.
Body language expert and Behavior Analyst Traci Brown told RadarOnline that the two appear to be “no longer on the same page.” The former president greeted Harris briefly. “Look at the handshake between Kamala and Joe,” she said. “A handshake can show how much you want to engage with someone. See how he’s only given her his fingers? It’s not a shake with two people on the same page.”
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Brown observed that Harris “leaned in” with her “head tilted,” showing she wanted “to engage.”
“He’s not,” she explained. “Body language tells you what’s on someone’s mind, but not why. Is it his cognitive decline? Or is it generally a cool reception? We can’t tell, but something is off.”
The interaction comes after Harris wrote about their tense relationship in her memoir 107 Days. rote that the Biden administration had undermined her bid for the presidency in the wake of the 2024 election. The former California Attorney General had thought about recommending to Biden that he should not seek reelection, but it put her in a tough position to be his recommended successor. She called the decision, “incredibly self-serving.” “He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win,” she said.
“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris wrote in an excerpt published by The Atlantic. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”
Joe Biden has not commented about that aides were reportedly angry about her allegations that he was “reckless” and that his team had worked to undermine her, according to outlets including The New Republic.
During a recent appearance on The Diary of a CEO podcast Harris spoke about her relationship with Biden, and the ups and downs they’ve had. First, she made it clear that the two are still friends. “It’s a good relationship. I just talked to him two days ago. He called me for my birthday,” she said, “Yes, it’s very complicated.”
“I have a great deal of affection for him,” she explained at the time. “And there were times that I’ve been quite candid about where he greatly disappointed me and frankly, you know, angered me.”
Harris’ relationship with Barack Obama eventually soured too, according to some sources. According to a new report from the NY Post, Obama was “not happy” that Rep. Nancy Pelosi quickly endorsed then-Vice President Kamala Harris only 24 hours after Biden ended his re-election bid. Obama, according to sources, preferred to let “a process” determine the Democratic nominee and called Pelosi to vent about her decision, according to a new book called Retribution, written by ABC News’ Jonathan Karl.
