Analyst reveals Biden team prepared to counter Harris with damaging stories | Fox News
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'The Five' co-hosts discuss how Democrats want to bench former Vice President Kamala Harris for the midterms, while Team Biden has 'Palinesque' stories about her.
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Political analyst Mark Halperin revealed last week that former President Joe Biden's team is prepared to release unflattering stories about their efforts to prepare former Vice President Kamala Harris for a potential run if she comes after him in her new book.
Harris announced the release of her upcoming book "107 Days," documenting her short-lived presidential run, just a week after Biden reportedly signed a $10 million deal with the Hachette Book Group for his upcoming presidential memoir.
While speaking on 2Way's "The Morning Meeting" with Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine, Halperin dismissed the notion that they discussed these books with each other, adding that the Biden team is ready to push back if they feel threatened.
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Mark Halperin said Biden's team will release unflattering stories about Harris if she attacks him as she prepares to release her book "107 Days."(Win McNamee/Getty Images)
"If the Biden people decide that Kamala Harris is coming after Joe Biden, wait until you hear the Palin-esque stories about how much they tried to help her be prepared to be vice president and be in a position to run, and how they decided, 'not happening. She's not up to this,'" Halperin said. "And if the Biden people feel threatened, you will hear stories about Kamala Harris as vice president that will not make her look good."
Halperin's "Palin-esque" comment refers to revelations from 2008 Republican presidential nominee John McCain's 2018 memoir, which revealed he regretted picking former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Halperin later elaborated on his own show on Tuesday about how the Biden administration attempted to prepare Harris for a potential presidential run but found she wasn't "ready for prime time."
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Halperin described the Biden administration as struggling to prepare Harris to potentially take over as president.(Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
"[T]he folks in the Biden administration, including the president himself, were very protective of her, did their best to make her a success, did their best to make her ready to be president either if Joe Biden left office prematurely or if she decided she wanted to run. If you look at her public schedule, you'll see she had, I think, an unprecedented number of meetings with world leaders," Halperin said.
He continued, "Certainly, every opportunity, whether they were in Washington or when she traveled overseas, she met a lot of world leaders. They tried to get her up to speed, but she was not quite ready for prime time. Let me put it that way."
Fox News Digital reached out to Biden and Harris' teams for comment but did not immediately receive responses.
Lindsay Kornick is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.
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Anybody with 3 digits in their IQ knew the Harris wasn't ready for prime time, it's absolutely mind boggling that people had so little integrity that they actual tried to push that she was a "normal" democrat candidate, unless they truly believe that the "normal" democrat candidate is a moron like Palin and not ready for prime time.
What?!?! A political team was preparing for a primary?!?!? Shock!!!! /s
But seriously, what exactly is the story here? Are conservatives trying to claim Biden was "more ready" for primetime than Harris and Democrats chose the wrong horse to run in the race?
The fact is, Democrats didn't have a truly "ready for primetime" candidate for 2024. They were scrambling and desperate and the Harris campaign was the result. It's not that there aren't any Democrats who could step up and take leadership of the party. The problem was that no actually ready Democrat wanted to run in that election because they knew it was going to be a contest between the Biden administrations record which every Democrat running would have been painted with and the wild promises of a flippant liar that is adored for some reason by not only the backwater bigots and morons across the nation, but self-righteous religious conservatives who believe the deal with the devil to get what they want is better than compromising.
I think it will be a different story in 2028, perhaps we can get back to issues that actually matter and leave the Trump circus behind.
We'll have to wait and see, but with our current divided political world and the partisan bias we see almost everywhere I tend to doubt that we've seen the last of it. And let's not forget that ex-Presidents do tend to be interviewed by the press and get involved in supporting campaigns.
I'm sure they have tons of ammo.
They can always copy/paste what the Republicans have been saying about her.
Those that fail to plan, plan to fail