Former Vice President Kamala Harris drew criticism after sharing a somber message on Independence Day and posting a photo that excluded former President Joe Biden and former First Lady Jill Biden.
On July 4, Harris posted a message on X, stating, “Things are hard right now.
They are probably going to get worse before they get better,” before expressing her continued love for the country and commitment to “fight for it.”
The image she shared was from a 2024 Independence Day event and showed Harris alongside then-Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff watching fireworks. Observers noted that the photo was cropped in a way that left out President Biden and the First Lady.
Link Lauren, a former adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., highlighted the omission on social media, calling it “very symbolic.” He also shared a wider version of the photo showing Biden and his wife standing just feet away.
Users on X quickly reacted to the post, with one sarcastically questioning whose elbow appeared on the right side of the cropped photo.
Many interpreted the exclusion as a deliberate slight or symbolic gesture, as the New York Post reported.
Others criticized the tone of Harris’s