President Biden spent Sept. 11 far from the sites of terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of 2,977 Americans 22 years ago, opting instead to send his second-in-command to Ground Zero on Monday.
Vice President Kamala Harris stood between Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams at a ceremony honoring the victims of the 2001 attacks in Manhattan — as Biden returned from Asia and marked the tragedy later in the day at a military base in Alaska.
Harris smiled during a lively conversation with Hochul and stayed for about an hour before catching her return flight to Washington — as victim names continued to be read aloud by their relatives at the National Sept. 11 Memorial Plaza.
The mayor and VP, by contrast, did not seem to engage in much chatter — after Adams has repeatedly blasted the White House’s handling of the migrant crisis that’s draining city resources.
Hochul and Harris were all smiles despite Biden’s recent snub of the Democratic governor, who wasn’t granted a meeting with him when she visited the White House on Aug. 30 to discuss the rising tide of border-crossers.
