Kamala Harris felt disrespected by Biden's white staff, upset West Wing staffers did not stand for her: Report

Kamala Harris felt disrespected by Biden's white staff, upset West Wing staffers did not stand for her: Report

The White House may have branded President Joe Biden's presidency as the "Biden-Harris administration," but according to a forthcoming book, Vice President Kamala Harris has felt repeatedly disrespected since winning election.

The book — written by New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns — details the uneasy relationship between Harris and the West Wing, where Biden's staffers work.

Several specific grievances are detailed in book excerpts published by Politico's West Wing Playbook, including Harris' alleged frustrations with Biden's all-white inner circle and West Wing staffers who she felt disrespected her.

"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 in their book. "Harris worried that Biden’s staff looked down on her; she fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious."

According to the reporters, Harris' chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, was dispatched sometime last year, presumably by Harris, to Anita Dunn, who at the time worked as a senior adviser to Biden.