FORMER First Lady Jill Biden is said to have shared a pointed four-word message with Kamala Harris during their encounter at Dick Cheney’s funeral on Thursday.
The two reconnected in public for the first time since failed presidential hopeful Harris blasted her former president in her memoir 107 Days.
The Bidens were seated by Harris at the memorial held at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC.
Biden and Jill shook hands with several attendees before making their way up to their seats and acknowledging the former vice president.
When they arrived, Biden shook Mike Pence’s hand, who was sitting beside Harris, and turned to his right as Jill shared a few words with Harris.
Harris then shook her pointer finger and smiled as she responded to the former first lady before the row abruptly turned to the front to listen to George W. Bush’s eulogy.
According to a lip reader Nicola Hickling, Biden first said “Nice to see you Kamala,” when he got to the pew, the Daily Mail reported.
Jill then uttered the four-word response, “He wasn’t ignoring you,” Hickling said.
Afterwards, Harris responded, “I know he wasn’t, I was thinking you’re going to look at me, but he didn’t,” according to the lip reader.
Onlookers braced for a frosty meeting as it was the first time the Bidens had been seen meeting in public with Harris since she blasted her former president in her latest book.
At one point in the memoir, the failed presidential hopeful described Biden’s decision to run for re-election as “reckless.”
But she admitted she never voiced her hesitations, as she felt the vice president should support his decisions.
“I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run,” she wrote in her book.
“He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”
Nevertheless, Harris said she believed ousting Donald Trump was of the utmost importance and feared “ego” got in the way.
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