‘The President Is Still President’: WH Asked How Harris’ Role Will Change After Biden Stepped Aside

2 months ago

During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked whether Vice President Kamala Harris’ responsibilities will change now that she is running for President.

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00:00Is the Vice President or her staff going to be more closely involved in the day-to-day

00:05operations of the administration given that she's now the President of the United States?

00:08I kind of got this question moments ago, nothing more to add where the Vice President has been

00:14a critical partner.

00:15She's played an important role to a lot of decisions that have been made in the past

00:21three and a half years.

00:22That's not going to change.

00:24And the President has always obviously appreciated her policy savvy, her ideas, her thoughts,

00:33and that's going to continue.

00:34Is she going to get more of a say now?

00:37The President is still President.

00:39He's still very much Commander-in-Chief, he's still very much the President of the United

00:43States, and he's still very much going to lead this country in the way and the direction

00:47that he believes is right, is the right way to do it.

00:52So that doesn't change.

00:54That's not going to change.

00:55And just to make sure I understood your answer earlier, you may have spoken about the VP

00:58selection specifically, or the-

00:59Oh, the VP selection, that is something obviously I can't speak to, the campaign side could

01:05speak to.

01:06What I can say is, I heard the question as giving advice to the Vice President in any

01:13way, right?

01:14They've spoken many times, I'm just not going to get into private conversation.

01:18The VP pick specifically, anything related to that, obviously the campaign can speak

01:22to that more if you want more details.

01:24But Vice President Harris won't have extra staff in meetings that wouldn't normally be

01:28there for some sort of overlapped transition?

01:30I would say that nothing is going to change.

01:33The President is the President of the United States, he's going to continue to lead this

01:38administration the way that he sees fit.

01:41They are partners.

01:42They are partners.

01:43They have been.

01:44She's been, again, a critical partner in some of the big items that we've been able to get

01:49done on behalf of this country.

01:52She's going to play a role as she has done in the past.

‘The President Is Still President’: WH Asked How Harris’ Role Will Change After Biden Stepped Aside

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