White House Provides Unfortunate Money Quote for Kamala Harris As She Distances Herself From Joe Biden

As the 2024 Democratic National Convention gets underway in Chicago this week, one thing has been made crystal clear right from the start:

President Joe Biden is going to be gotten out of the way early, as evidenced by the fact that the speech he's giving to delegates is on Day One of the convention. First Lady Jill Biden will also be speaking Monday, so that takes care of the Bidens and their obligatory endorsements of Vice President Kamala Harris so Democrats can move forward with proceedings as though the guy they voted for four years ago and again in the 2024 primaries never existed.

Something else we should expect to see more of are more epic flip-flops from Harris, who has been hella busy in recent weeks trying to distance herself from her past statements as a failed presidential candidate as well as her record as Biden's veep.

This has been done, of course, with predictable assists from the mainstream media, who got started early on trying to make people believe that Kamala Harris was not Biden's border czar when she was in fact named his point person on the southern border in March 2021 and did a horrible job at that.

But as Kamala Harris and her handlers try to cover up her record and recreate her into something she's not going into the fall campaign season, one thing she can't run away from is the fact that she's tied to Joe Biden's record, for better or for worse.

This is something that was explained, inadvertently, by Biden White House communications director Ben LaBolt, who admitted in a Monday DNC kickoff interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that Kamala Harris "has been the governing partner for every key decision that the president has made in his term in office."

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White House Comms Director Ben LaBolt: "Vice President Harris has been the governing partner for every key decision that the president has made in his term in office."

In case you were still wondering if Kamala owns the broken economy, broken border, and broken world. pic.twitter.com/QbsEto3D2U
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 19, 2024

Not to mention the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal debacle. Remember, she was allegedly the "last person in the room" on the withdrawal discussions though one senior military official suggested, "She never gave a sense for where she was on it."

Here's the thing: Democrats and the media want Harris to have it both ways. On one hand, they say she was present for Biden's most consequential decisions as a trusted advisor and yet when she feels the heat of those decisions they then turn around and suggest she wasn't a part of that process at all.

Either way, though, it's a bad look for Harris, as not being there for Biden's major decisions sort of proves claims from her many critics about her being an empty suit, while being there puts her on the hook for every single one of them.

Watching her dodge and weave for the next several weeks is going to be popcorn-worthy, to say the least. Will there be a point where her apologists in the press turn on her? Republicans would be foolish to wait and find out, and should use the LaBolt quote on a loop and keep up with the pouncing and seizing on her statements, word salads, and records because she's given them a rather large volume of material with which to work.