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Jean-Pierre disturbed by question of possible ‘weirdness’ between Harris and Biden: ‘I don’t even understand’
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Jean-Pierre disturbed by question of possible ‘weirdness’ between Harris and Biden: ‘I don’t even understand’

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White House press secretary On Tuesday, Karine Jean-Pierre took exception to a question from Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy about whether President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ recent lunch was “weird.”

“We know that today, one week after the election, President Biden and Vice President Harris had a private lunch. How weird was that?” Doocy asked after another series of questions.

“Even I don’t understand. Why would it be, why would it be weird?” Jean-Pierre replied.

Doocy explained: “The President pinned for him, then held him at arm’s length, and then lost him. And now he’s back.”

WASH POST SAYS HARRIS CITED BIDEN’S COGNITIVE DECLINE AS PART OF THE REASON THE DEMOCRATS LOST: ‘CREDIBILITY ISSUES’

President-elect Donald Trump was photographed in front of the White House.

President-elect Donald Trump was photographed in front of the White House. (Getty Images/AP Images)

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 did you call it weird?” he asked again.

“So there is nothing strange about the course of events since the last incident,” Doocy replied.

“Did you see them together yesterday? Did you see the show of force together?” he asked, referring to Biden and Harris honor veterans together Monday during holiday.

“This is, look, I’m not even going to get into the premise of the problem,” the press secretary continued. “What I will say is, the president and the vice president had lunch today. They’ve had lunch many times. They communicate with each other on a regular basis. They had the 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 their That’s the focus.”

IT IS CLAIMED THAT TENSIONS HAVE INCREASED BETWEEN THE BIDEN WHITE HOUSE AND THE HARRIS CAMPAIGN: ‘TOO MUCH IN THEIR EMOTIONS’

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Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a concession speech following the 2024 presidential election on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Nov. 6 (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

As Democrats pick up the pieces after President-elect Donald Trump After the decisive victory, some of Harris’s supporters are expressing disappointment that Biden’s decision to continue his re-election campaign into the summer despite longstanding concerns about his age, inflation and border security all but guaranteed his party’s surrender from the White House.

Biden campaigned for and endorsed Harris this cycle, but in the midst of the nearly 100-day Harris-Walz campaign, he also I made a series of mistakes this likely hurt his chances of winning the election.

Biden and Trump are preparing to meet At 11 a.m. Wednesday at the White House, Doocy asked if the vice president had been invited, but Jean-Pierre said: “It is the norm for the next president and the current president to sit down and discuss it in the Oval Office.”

Biden at the Everytown for Gun Safety conference

President Biden at the Everytown for Gun Safety “Gun Sense University” conference in Washington, D.C., on June 11. (Ken Cedeno/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Doocy also asked if Biden had asked Trump to pardon his son Hunter because he had promised not to do so.

“I don’t have anything else to share about this,” he said. “I will not go into this issue, I will not go down the rabbit hole. I spoke very clearly. The president was very clear when we were asked this question.

Fox News’ Danielle Wallace and Emma Colton contributed to this report.