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On April 12, 2021, President Biden posted a Twitter message stating that whenever he had to make any important political decisions, Harris was always present with him — as “the last voice in the room.” “When I served as Vice President,” Biden wrote in the tweet, “I asked to be the last person with the President [Obama] before big decisions were made — and @VP [Harris] is providing the same counsel to me. She’s the last voice in the room and never fails to speak the truth as we work to build our nation back better.”
During an August 12, 2024 news briefing, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said of Harris and Biden: “They’ve been aligned, you know, they’ve been aligned for the last three and a half years. There’s not been any daylight” between them.
In a September 25, 2024 appearance on ABC’s The View, Biden said: “As Vice President, there wasn’t a single thing that I did that she [Harris] couldn’t do, and so I was able to delegate her responsibility on everything from foreign policy to domestic policy.”
In early October 2024, Biden said of Harris: “She helped pass all of the laws that are being employed now; she was a major player in everything we’ve done.”
During an October 8, 2024 appearance on ABC’s The View, Harris was asked: “If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” She replied: “There is not a thing that comes to mind. And I’ve been part of most of the decisions that have had impact…. Those were all a shared priority.”