White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appeared irritated when asked if there was any “weirdness” between President Joe Biden and his VP Kamala Harris following the election.
Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre if their meetings were “awkward” due to Harris’s crushing presidential election defeat after she replaced Biden at the top of the Democrat ticket.
Since President Donald Trump’s historic landslide victory over Harris, the VP has now returned to her normal duties serving under Biden.
“We know that today, a week after the election, President Biden and Vice President Harris had a private lunch,” Doocy said after a series of other questions.
“How awkward was that?” he asked.
“I don’t even understand,” Jean-Pierre responded.
“Why would it, why would it be awkward?”
Doocy explained, “The president got squeezed out for her, and then she kept him at arm’s length, and then she lost.
“And now she’s back,” he noted.
Jean-Pierre assured Doocy that the president and vice president were on good terms, claiming that “they have regular lunches” and “meet and talk regularly.”
“Why would you call it awkward?” she asked again.
“So there’s no weirdness about the way that things have unfolded since the last-,” Doocy responded.
“Did you see them together yesterday?” she asked, referring to Biden and Harris honoring veterans together during the holiday Monday.
“Did you see the show of force together?”
“This is, look, I’m not even going to take the premise of the question,” the press secretary continued.
“What I will say is the president and the vice president had lunch today.
“They’ve had lunch many times,” she said.
“They communicate with each other regularly.
“They had an opportunity to discuss the last 70 days or so of this administration—how important it is to get things done for the American people.
“And that’s their focus. That is genuinely their focus.”
WATCH:
Democrats have been picking up the pieces after Trump’s decisive victory.
Some of Harris’s backers are expressing frustration with Biden’s decision to continue his re-election campaign until the summer all but sealed his party’s surrender of the White House.
The president insisted on running for re-election despite long-standing concerns about his age, his historic unpopularity, inflation, and border security.
Biden campaigned for and endorsed Harris this cycle.
However, amid the roughly 100-day Harris-Walz campaign, Biden also made a series of gaffes and damaging remarks that likely hurt her chances of winning the election.
Biden and Trump are set to meet on Wednesday in the White House at 11 a.m.
Doocy asked if the vice president was invited.
Jean-Pierre said, “This is the norm, that the incoming president and the current president sit down in the Oval Office and have a discussion.”
Doocy also asked if Biden would ask Trump to pardon his son Hunter since he has pledged not to do so himself.
“I don’t have anything else to share about that,” she said.
“I’m not going to get in, go down a rabbit hole on this.
“I’ve been very clear.
“The president’s been very clear when we’ve been asked this question.”
