“While the pair have a good working relationship, Democratic sources say Biden has frustrations about some of her work,” the report says. The authors also note Biden’s concern that neither “Harris nor any other Democratic hopefuls” could defeat former President Donald Trump in 2024 is a major reason he will seek reelection himself. Also, weighing on the electoral calculus are concerns that Harris would become president if Biden “cannot fulfill his duties.”

“That reality will hang over their 2024 re-election bid,” the report adds, while noting Harris’s abysmal job approval rating.

“If he did not think she was capable, he would not have picked her. But it is a question of consistently rising to the occasion,” one former official is quoted in the context of Biden’s “frustration.”

[Oh, come on, man. That’s malarkey. Harris demonstrably failed to rise to the occasion in the 2019 debate series, well before Biden *explicitly* picked her for her gender and skin color. He’d have been much better off with Val Demings on that score, or a red-state governor like Steve Bullock or Roy Cooper as running mate and VP. Biden ignored Harris’ obvious incompetence in picking her as a running mate, and that decision is completely on him. — Ed]