She said she would complete the gig to help with the grief. Jessie, aged 33, said she found out the news in the early hours, ahead of a performance in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. It comes just a month after she split from Max Pham. The superstar, best known for hits such as Price Tag and Bang Bang, took to Instagram to share the news with her 10.4 million followers.
But Kamala Harris is currently on track to be equated with FDR’s fed-up Vice-President James Nance Garner who infamously observed that the office was “not worth a bucket of warm piss”.Popstar Jessie J revealed she is to perform a concert just a day after suffering a miscarriage. A vacancy on the US Supreme Court – were one to arise – might give him a convenient opportunity to promote the lawyerly Vice President out of his immediate orbit.īiden boosters like to dream that historians will view him as the most consequential American President since Franklin Delano Roosevelt. There’s also the possibility that President Biden honours his pledge to seek re-election, but instead selects a new running mate. Other young jockeys are preparing to saddle up, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg who has not-so-tactfully disclosed that his financial backers are urging him to prepare for a run. If Joe Biden decides to stand down at the next election, she’s no longer a shoo-in to become the Democratic Party’s 2024 Presidential nominee. Memorial in Washington (Photo: Getty/Chip Somodevilla)įor now, that ship may have sailed. Pictured, with President Joe Biden at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Vice President Kamala Harris has been forced to deny reports of being sidelined. As the first woman elected to the Vice Presidency and also the post’s first person of colour, back in January she seemed to offer a glimpse of the nation’s possible future. Several other staffers are also known to be clamouring for the exits. On Thursday night, Harris’s communications director Ashley Etienne suddenly announced she is leaving the White House “to pursue other opportunities”. Long-time followers of the Harris career say this is not the first time her office has been a place of strife. In September, two crisis communications experts were hired in an effort to resolve “long-term planning” issues.Īs early as June, Politico interviewed 22 current and former White House insiders who described a “tense and at times dour atmosphere” in her West Wing executive suite. But if you want to learn the top job’s ropes, you’re at least required to snap to attention and climb them.Īdding to the ongoing woes, the Vice President’s own staff is mired in dysfunction. President Biden knows from his own complicated experience as Barack Obama’s deputy that the vice presidency has many pitfalls. Besides, Harris has very limited influence among left-wing Democrats who fault her record on racial justice issues when she served as California’s Attorney General. But, after half a century in Washington, Joe Biden believes he’s got that covered. The Vice President’s “friends” argue she would have preferred a more prominent role resolving Democratic Party in-fighting in Congress about the President’s spending proposals. Other “Mission Impossible” issues vying for her attention include coordinating the White House response to the immigration crisis on America’s southern border, and spearheading efforts to overcome the Republicans’ ongoing assault on voting rights in America. Aukus defence pact is not ‘exclusionary’ says UK after anger from France over submarine deal