The team assisting Kamala Harris in her presidential bid is not an entirely new team but consisting of Obama alums and Biden holdovers resulting in occasional clash and confusion, Axios reported. When Biden bowed out of the race and Kamala Harris took over, the team was not changed entirely. Harris kept most of Biden’s team in place except for Mike Donilon, Biden campaign’s main architect.Harris brought her own staffers and then included some of Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign staff and resulted in the medley that the present team is — though with many power centers, it’s becoming like ‘Frankenstein’, the report said.
Special attention has been paid to not make Biden staff feel left out but this led to confusion about who is in charge of what. “The entanglement of these different entities has led to many people feeling a real lack of role clarity,” one person involved in the campaign told Axios.
Another person said that there is not much confusion at the top level, it’s most prevalent at two or three rungs down. Harris brought on prominent election lawyer Marc Elias. Biden’s camp had split with Elias last year over concerns about his strategy.
Kamala Harris has infused enthusiasm into the campaign ever since she took over as some are bristling as they have to defend Kamala Harris for her past support of progressive issues such as Medicare for All and banning fracking. But the tension among the factions is likely to be under check and they have a short timeline to deliver before the election.
Special attention has been paid to not make Biden staff feel left out but this led to confusion about who is in charge of what. “The entanglement of these different entities has led to many people feeling a real lack of role clarity,” one person involved in the campaign told Axios.
Another person said that there is not much confusion at the top level, it’s most prevalent at two or three rungs down. Harris brought on prominent election lawyer Marc Elias. Biden’s camp had split with Elias last year over concerns about his strategy.
Kamala Harris has infused enthusiasm into the campaign ever since she took over as some are bristling as they have to defend Kamala Harris for her past support of progressive issues such as Medicare for All and banning fracking. But the tension among the factions is likely to be under check and they have a short timeline to deliver before the election.
Source : Times of India
