Kamala Harris’ Campaign Is Trying to Limit Infighting, as New Aides Unsettle Old Ones

“For the first time, the ‘A’ team has to work for her now,” said a source close to the Harris campaign.

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Vice President Kamala Harris told top advisers that she wants the transition from the Biden campaign to the Harris campaign to be “quiet” and “without infighting” that marred her first run for president.

While that’s largely been the case in the campaign’s first weeks, as leaks have (so far) been kept to a relative minimum, the transition itself hasn’t been without power struggles, according to multiple people close to the campaign. Some of the struggles are focused on policy, while others have been on strategy.

Most of the dozen people NOTUS spoke with likened it to the usual back-and-forth expected when one campaign transforms into another. Or the expected debates that arise from the fast-paced blending of families learning to operate in the same way.