Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., threw massive shade at Vice President Kamala Harris when she refused to endorse her as President Joe Biden’s future running mate as he gears up for a likely re-election bid.
Or at least that’s the message Republicans and right-wing media are trying to push after Warren’s interview with public radio station WGBH on Friday. In reality, Warren was doing something less juicy than trying to take a swing at Harris. She was most likely trying to not box Biden in given that presidents do, on rare occasion, pick new vice presidential candidates when running for re-election.
Mostly, it looks like Warren was acting diplomatically.
During the interview, Warren was asked if Biden should run again for president, which is fast emerging as the expected reality in Washington. Warren said he should because he’s “gotten a tremendous amount done.” When asked if Harris should be his choice for vice president, Warren replied:
I really want to defer to what makes Biden comfortable on his team. I’ve known Kamala for a long time. I like Kamala. I knew her back when she was an attorney general and I was still teaching and we worked on the housing crisis together, so we go way back. But they need — they have to be a team, and my sense is they are — I don’t mean that by suggesting I think there are any problems. I think they are.
For critics and beltway analysts looking to extract maximum drama from any intra-Democratic Party exchange, Warren’s decision to decline to endorse Harris was a condemnation. Despite the fact that Warren even issued a clarifying statement after the interview saying that she “fully support[s] the President’s and Vice President’s re-election together,” Fox News held an entire panel over Warren’s statement based on the assumption that Warren had accidentally revealed her animosity and competitive attitude toward Harris.
But mostly it looks like Warren was acting diplomatically — and in accordance with the…
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