According to reports, things are not all happy in Kamala Harris-land. It’s likely a big factor in why we have seen so many of her staff fleeing for the exits. I reported on the tenth top aide — Nancy McEldowney, Kamala’s National Security Adviser — announcing she was leaving this week.

My colleague Sister Toldjah reported on a new book that’s out that is revealing more of the split between the Biden White House and Kamala Harris. It has Joe Biden’s Comms director Kate Bedingfield blaming Harris for the issues.

There’s a new report from the book about how difficult Harris is and what she expects. According to the book, Harris got upset that White House staffers would stand when Joe Biden entered a room but not when she would.

“Some of Harris’s advisers believed the president’s almost entirely white inner circle did not show the vice president the respect she deserved,” Martin and Burns write. “Harris worried that Biden’s staff looked down on her; she fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious.”

At one point, Harris dispatched [incoming chief of staff Tina] Flournoy to talk to top Biden adviser ANITA DUNN to convey displeasure that White House staff was not standing up for Harris when she entered the room the way they did for Biden. “The vice president took it as a sign of disrespect,” according to the excerpt.

Dunn told West Wing Playbook that she wasn’t “going to comment except to say that everyone in the West Wing has a high degree of respect for the Vice President and the hard work she is doing for this President and our country. Particularly me.”

I do believe that Joe Biden has a lot of issues with race as we have already seen from his boatload of sketchy comments. I don’t know about his staff. But being upset about people not standing up when you come into the room seems more than a little sensitive. Neither she nor Joe Biden is royalty, even if they think they are or act like it sometimes.

Harris was also allegedly upset about a Vogue cover that ran two weeks before the inauguration that had her in skinny pants and Converse sneakers.

4. Here is the Vogue cover Kamala Harris’ team thought would be released.

I’m told this cover on the left will be the digital cover, but the much maligned cover on the right has already gone to print and will be the cover available for sale and sent to subscribers. pic.twitter.com/5eWjPMTbdP

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 10, 2021

That’s what she was known for at the time, so it made sense for the magazine to run that. But she was “wounded” because she thought it didn’t hold her up as a world leader. “She felt belittled by the magazine, asking aides: Would Vogue depict another world leader this way?” Wearing sneakers doesn’t diminish looking like a world leader — cackling on the world stage, not understanding foreign policy, and failing to do anything constructive does.

The Biden team told the Harris team this was not the time to be going to war with Vogue over a comparatively “trivial aesthetic issue” — that these were “first-world problems.”

Harris was allegedly also upset because she wanted an easier first assignment to build her portfolio, like dealing with Nordic countries with whom there are no issues. But she got the border and immigration, something that was bound to be fraught with failure. Was Joe Biden trying to do her in with such an assignment? Maybe. Of course, she didn’t make it any better with a variety of gaffes on the issue.

The book even notes that Jill Biden wasn’t on board with the choice of Kamala Harris.

“Speaking in confidence with a close adviser to her husband’s campaign, the future First Lady posed a pointed question. There are millions of people in the United States, she began. Why, she asked, do we have to choose the one who attacked Joe?” Politico reported the book stated.

Is it any wonder why the Biden-Harris team is such a mess and often doesn’t seem to be on the same page? Harris thought she would get some featured assignments. Then she’d just walk into the big job and take over from Biden. The Biden folks probably thought she’d just be silent and compliant, like most in that position. Instead, they got someone who wanted much more than she’s getting out of the job.

But you also have to wonder why people on the Biden side are presumably leaking all this stuff now on her. Making her look bad also makes them look bad. Not exactly a smart strategy here. So someone has it in for her, even if it makes them all look bad.