CNSNews.com) – Former Vice President Joe Biden in discussing how he and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) will deal with disagreements told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday that he will handle it much like he did with former President Barack Obama.
“The thing we are simpatico on our philosophy of government and simpatico on how we want to approach these issues that we’re facing, and so I don’t have – and when we disagree, it will be just like — so far it’s been just like Barack and I did. It’s in private. She’ll say I think we should do a, B, C, or D, and I’ll say I like A, don’t like B or C. Okay, and like I told Barack, if I read something where there’s a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I’ll develop some disease and say I have to resign,” Biden said.
Tapper asked Harris whether she will take over Vice President Mike Pence’s role leading the COVID-19 task force and specifically what her “portfolio will be.”
Tapper asked what Harris people should call her husband, and she said the term that has evolved is “the second gentleman.”
TAPPER: What has been — she was one of your fiercest competitors in the early days of the primary, and now she and Doug Emhoff — which by the way, is he the second gentleman? Is he the second dude? What should we be calling him?
HARRIS: Well, I think that the term has evolved into the second gentleman.
TAPPER: The second gentleman. I like second dude, but I will defer.
HARRIS: I think some of his friends are inclined to say that.
TAPPER: But you’ll call him the second gentleman.
HARRIS: No, I’ll call him honey.
TAPPER: You’ll call him honey. Okay. But now they’re part of the team.
HARRIS: Yes.
Tapper asked Biden what the biggest surprise was about working with Harris, pointing out that Biden knew Harris through his late son, Beau Biden, who served as Delaware’s attorney general before his death.
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TAPPER: They’re no longer competitors. What’s been the biggest surprise about working with her? I know you knew her before through Beau —
BIDEN: Well, look, there hasn’t been any surprise because we had the discussion about this beforehand. Beforehand. First of all, I understand how campaigns can sometimes get a little out of whack a little bit. And as I told her, you know because you asked the question, I don’t hold grudges. I mean That’s why Richard Ben Kramer questioned whether I was really Irish. You know I mean, But all kidding aside —
TAPPER: The first lady-to-be told me she holds them for you.
BIDEN: Yes, she does, but she and Kamala have become friends, but all kidding aside, it’s a matter of — the thing we are simpatico on our philosophy of government and simpatico on how we want to approach these issues that we’re facing, and so I don’t have – and when we disagree, it will be just like — so far it’s been just like Barack and I did. It’s in private. She’ll say I think we should do a, B, C, or D, and I’ll say I like A, don’t like B or C. Okay, and like I told Barack, if I read something where there’s a fundamental disagreement we have based on a moral principle, I’ll develop some disease and say I have to resign.
We don’t have — and we discussed at length our views on foreign policy, on domestic policy, on intelligence, and the great thing is she has a background in the Senate, on intelligence, the intelligence committee. She has a background in the senate on a whole range of things that are going to be pertinent to what we have to do, but it’s going to be — I think so much is going to be incoming, Jake. It’s a matter about who takes what when.
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