Does Kamala Harris Have Beef With Anna Wintour Over Her Controversial Vogue Cover?

A new book about the Biden administration reveals on Wednesday, March 23, that U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris was reportedly angry at magazine editor Anna Wintour over the photo that she chose of Harris to grace the cover of Vogue.

The photo, which showed Harris in skinny jeans and Converse sneakers, angered Harris because she believed that a more formal photo, which was used for the digital edition of that February’s Vogue, would be used as the cover, according to the Independent.

“Harris was wounded. She felt belittled by the magazine, asking aides: Would Vogue depict another world leader this way?” The New York Times' reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns said.

Anna Wintour defended her choice of cover by saying that she personally chose it because it made Harris look “relatable,” but Harris was still reportedly irate over the cover photo that was chosen of her.

Harris reportedly demanded her incoming chief-of-staff Tina Flourno to go to Biden’s campaign officials to complain. Biden’s staff, who was dealing with the Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection at the time, told Flourno that “this was not the time to be going to war with Vogue over a comparatively trivial aesthetic issue,” Politico reported.

Martin and Burns’ book "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future" also details other squabbles that Harris found herself attempting and failing to establish herself separately from Biden, feeling disrespected by the President in every turn.

“Some of Harris’s advisers believed the president’s almost entirely white inner circle did not show the vice president the respect she deserved,” the reporters wrote. “Harris worried that Biden’s staff looked down on her; she fixated on real and perceived snubs in ways the West Wing found tedious.”

Among her complaints was the fact that Biden’s staff did not stand for her when she entered the room like they would for him, as well as assigning her the immigration issue of the Northern Triangle countries instead of the low–risk diplomatic mission of the Nordic countries that Harris felt was appropriate for her.

“White House aides rejected the idea and privately mocked it,” the reporters said. “More irritating to Biden aides was when they learned the vice president wanted to plan a major speech to outline her view of foreign policy. Biden aides vetoed the idea.”

The White House and the vice president’s office have yet to comment on the allegations presented by the journalists.