Kamala Harris ‘hates’ Boris and Joe Biden ‘racist comment’

Kamala Harris “hates” Boris Johnson, and Joe Biden’s team frowns on a comment made by Johnson that they believed was racist, it is claimed. Close aides to Biden and Harris, the new vice president-elect, recalled disgust at a comment the British prime minister made about Barack Obama in 2016.

That source told The Sunday Times: “If you think Joe hates him, you should listen to Kamala.” Johnson drew the ire of the new power couple “after Johnson called former President Obama’s decision to remove a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office” as a symbol of the president’s ancestral antipathy, in part Kenyan, for the British Empire.

Obama was the first African-American president of the United States and was born to an American mother and a Kenyan father. He appointed Biden as his vice president in 2008. Harris is the highest-ranking woman to hold office in the United States and is the daughter of an Indian biologist and Jamaican professor.

One of Obama’s former aides who also worked alongside Biden, Tommy Vietor, was quick to highlight Johnson’s earlier mistake on Twitter, writing: “We will never forget his racist comments about Obama and his slavish devotion to Trump.” He also called Johnson a “shapeshifting creep.”

Biden and Harris’s alleged coldness towards Johnson emerged when Downing Street sources spoke of the delicate negotiations currently underway to attempt to establish a relationship between the British leader and his incoming American counterparts.

Johnson toyed with his camaraderie with President Donald Trump, who will be replaced by Biden in January. And Trump’s fondness for the British leader also has the potential to stain him in the eyes of the new American president.

The British prime minister reportedly wants to speak to Biden about next year’s UN Climate Summit, to be held in the UK.

Biden has vowed to bring the United States back to the 2015 Paris Agreement aimed at tackling climate change, which Trump abandoned in 2018.

But a Democratic source told the Times: “They don’t think Boris Johnson is an ally. They believe that Britain is an ally.

“But there will be no special relationship with Boris Johnson.”

Johnson’s popularity has plummeted in recent months amid his uncertain handling of the coronavirus crisis.

It has infected 1.17 million Britons and killed about 49,000.

His handling of the virus has been compared to Trump’s carefree approach, with both leaders hospitalized after contracting the virus.

Johnson bragged about ignoring social distancing guidelines and shaking hands early in the pandemic, but nearly died after being admitted to intensive care with a severe case of the virus.