Success has a thousand fathers, an old saying instructs, whereas failure is an orphan.

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are going all-in on paternity tests.

In an exclusive that anyone could have seen coming since the early hours of November 6, the Wall Street Journal reports that Harris and Biden have begun feuding over the loss to Donald Trump. From nearly the first hours since her concession speech, Harris' allies have tried to claim that she did the best she could with the lousy hand that Biden dealt to her. She needs to shift blame from her own incompetency to salvage any future in electoral politics, and Biden makes a handy target.

However, Biden's not playing along, and now Harris wants it known that she's ... "disappointed" by his insistence that he would have beaten Trump:

Vice President Kamala Harris has told close allies and family members she is disappointed in President Biden’s recent contention that he would have won the 2024 election, according to people familiar with the conversations, straining relations between the two during their final days in the White House. ...

Her fraying relationship with Biden comes at a challenging time for Harris, who is dealing with a crisis in her adopted hometown of Los Angeles, where wildfires have caused broad destruction, as she transitions out of her public role. Harris has expressed deep sadness to people close to her over losing the election and Biden’s comments, some of those people said.

And they're making sure that the media amplifies it, too. 

In fairness, though, Biden has hardly been shy about claiming that he would have beaten Trump. Despite its obvious implicit criticism of Harris, Biden keeps telling any reporter who will listen that the election would have been winnable with a different candidate:

Asked if he thought he could have defeated Trump, Biden said this month in an interview with USA Today, “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes, based on the polling.”

Days later, he reiterated to reporters that he “could have beaten Trump, would have beaten Trump.” Biden also said that Harris “could have beaten Trump, would have beaten Trump.”

That was a sop to Harris' bruised ego, but even in his decrepitude, Biden couldn't have actually believed that. She lost the election, for one; it was in all the newspapers that people read to Biden during his "good hours." The whole point of arguing that he would have won is to boost his self-assessment that he alone has Trump's number in some sense. Joe Biden is and will forever be A Legend In His Own Mind. 

Besides, if Harris could have beaten Trump, she would have beaten Trump. And if Biden is arguing that Harris had the opportunity to beat Trump and failed, that is an indictment of Harris in precisely the way her allies claim she is taking it. It's worse in its own way than claiming that Biden was the only Democrat who could have done so, especially because he himself hand-picked Harris for the task not once but twice -- in 2020 and again in July when Biden short-circuited Democrats from having any kind of competitive process to replace him on the ticket. 

And of course, that's part of the reason why all the whining is ludicrous. Harris got handed these opportunities by Biden and Democrats. She didn't earn a place on the ticket -- Harris got anointed to it. As the subsequent 107 days proved, Harris would likely have flamed out in any competitive process at the convention, just as she did in 2019 with all of the political winds at her back for the presidential nomination in that cycle. And even after being handed the spot and then backed by a propaganda effort from the Protection Racket Media that was unparalleled in modern history for a candidate, Harris failed to gain ground for Democrars in every single county in America over 2020, and lost ground in many.

That doesn't make Biden correct, though. It just means they're both hopelessly benighted incompetents trying desperately to play hot-potato with the blame for 2024:

Based on the polling data, I categorize Biden's statement that he could have beaten Trump as "flat out bonkers."

Biden was well behind Trump when he dropped out. Biden never led in all of 2024. And no incumbent president who was anywhere near as unpopular as Biden has ever won. pic.twitter.com/lGk9h8pygU

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) January 8, 2025

However, the WSJ report on the obvious feud taking place between Harris and Biden sheds light on the laughably propagandistic profile of Jill Biden by the Washington Post yesterday. Dr. Biden did more to cover up Joe's cognitive incompetence than anyone in the White House, although she was hardly alone in that conspiracy. She and Kamala have clearly been at war since November 6, and really since June 2019 when Harris called Joe a racist in a Democrat primary debate. 

And yet, Kara Voght wants readers to believe that it's all peaches and cream between two women who won't even acknowledge each other's presence in public:

Joe ceded the spotlight to Harris. And Jill, now with something even bigger to hold together, hit the campaign trail for the vice president. She made nine stops across Georgia, Pennsylvania and North Carolina in the final days of the Harris campaign, kicking off last-minute canvasses and dropping off snacks for volunteers. Jill barely mentioned her husband by name. Praise for his administration showed up as a rhetorical question: “Are we better off than we were four years ago? Yes!” Instead, she tried to humanize Harris like she’d done for Joe all those years.

The first lady — the grudge holder in chief — had balked at Harris as a potential running mate in 2020, still smarting from a punch the then-senator had landed on Joe during a 2019 Democratic presidential debate, according to journalists Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns. But Jill “had long moved on from the debate in 2019” by the time Harris was chosen, says the first lady’s spokesperson, Vanessa Valdivia, adding that the two women “have a warm, loving relationship.” Part of Joe’s legacy would be his decision to choose Harris again, as his successor, upon exiting the race — and whether the vice president could deliver a fatal blow to Trump’s presidential prospects.

There is precisely zero evidence of a "warm, loving relationship" between Jill and Kamala. In two very public events -- the Memorial Veterans Day ceremony and at the Kennedy Center -- the two women refused to acknowledge each other, a freeze so obvious that even the Protection Racket Media got a contact burn from it. Watching the two of them in close public proximity is more uncomfortable than watching a Tommy Wiseau movie ... or even watching a movie about a Tommy Wiseau movie. 

The Washington Post is flat-out lying to its readers in its attempt to cover up for the Bidens. This feud may have other media organizations rethinking their propaganda for Biden Inc, but it may take a long time before the darkness lifts at the WAmazonPo. 

Update: Veterans Day, not Memorial Day. My apologies. Thanks to Nina in NOLA for the correction.