Joint Base Andrews on Monday played host to an unofficial welterweight fight between elements of the Vice-Presidential Protective Division tasked with ensuring Kamala Harris’s safety. One has to wonder if the stress of picking up the president’s electioneering slack is too much for the VP and her staff, with Joe Biden doing relatively little travel and few events as he prepares for a reelection campaign.
Tom Rogan reports for the Washington Examiner:
EXCLUSIVE — An armed U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris‘s protective detail fought unarmed with other detail agents on Monday morning.
The incident occurred at the Washington, D.C.-area Andrews Air Force Base, before Harris arrived, and after the agent suffered what the Secret Service has characterized as a medical incident. The Washington Examiner is aware of the agent’s name and specific detail responsibilities but is withholding those details for privacy reasons.
The Washington Examiner understands that the agent became aggressive with other agents. When the special agent in charge and a detail shift supervisor attempted to calm the agent, a physical altercation ensued. The agent was handcuffed before being withdrawn from service for medical assessment. Harris was scheduled to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base after the incident.
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Harris’s team has been on the road lately, encumbered by the boxes for the many hats she’s expected to wear. The vice president was most recently focused on the American West, with stops in Nevada, Arizona, California, and Wisconsin. Her focus has been on the one thing Democrats can agree is their ticket to reelection: abortion. Whether there’s any validity to that assumption is an open question.
Whatever the case, the job of convincing America that Biden is the man of the hour has been left to a female employee, and it would appear that her security detail is cracking. Extracurriculars for the Secret Service were front and center during the Obama years, and it would seem that the Biden administration has its own struggles with protecting their protection from themselves and others. This will bear watching as the campaign season’s tempo increases and the demands on Biden’s orbit multiply.