First Lady Jill Biden told a group of supporters that Kamala Harris could "go f--k" herself after she insinuated that Joe Biden was racist during the 2020 presidential primary debate, The Inquisitr reported. After Harris became the vice president who lost the race Joe Biden handed her, their mutual disdain is out in the open.
In June 2019, when the Democratic field was still anybody's to win, Harris pulled out her story about desegregation to blame Biden for opposing it at the time. Harris blasted Joe Biden for working with politicians with spotty records on racial justice and confronted him about the busing.
"It was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me," Harris famously claimed.
"So I will tell you that on this subject, it cannot be an intellectual debate among Democrats." At the time, this landed quite a blow against Joe Biden, and his wife was not about to let it go.
When Harris made this remark, her star was rising as a strong contender to be the Democratic nominee. Her campaign was leaning into Biden's tough stance on criminal justice, and it was working.
This was before the George Floyd riots, but the tide was already turning away from the conventional approach to these issues. Harris' comment was precisely the kind of thing that would hurt a longtime politician like Joe Biden, and Jill Biden couldn't hack it.
"With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis? Go f–k yourself," Jill Biden said of Harris during a phone call to supporters shortly after this exchange.
Perhaps the reason Jill Biden was particularly upset by this comment was because it was so effective. The New York Times reported that Joe Biden's poll numbers "generally slipped while support for Ms. Harris increased" after Harris made the remark.
Harris also got a significant bump in fundraising after the exchange. Joe Biden would eventually admit that Harris' question took him by surprise, and he apologized for his previous cooperation with segregationists.
Despite nearly four years of coexisting around Joe Biden, it doesn't seem Harris and Jill Biden have improved their relationship. If anything, Harris' her loss to President-elect Donald Trump has allowed both women to drop any pretense of mutual respect.
Not long after that disastrous Election Day, Harris and Jill Biden appeared at the same event but made no effort to interact, even for optics. Conservative commentator Steve Cortes picked up on this iciness and shared the clip to X, formerly Twitter, last month.
"It’s safe to say that Jill Biden hates Kamala Harris’s guts," Cortes captioned the brief clip. It's undeniable that there is palpable tension between the two when watching it.
It’s safe to say that Jill Biden hates Kamala Harris’s guts. pic.twitter.com/K6Te9Onf50
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) November 12, 2024
Harris' attack was effective, and possibly the reason Joe Biden picked her as his running mate was to put the issue to bed forever. However, Jill Biden apparently sees this as more than political and always has.
