Election 2024 live updates: Harris campaigns in Wisconsin; Trump to attend Al Smith dinner

The White House and Harris’ team have been in frequent contact about how she plans to distance herself from President Joe Biden, while maintaining her overall loyalty to him, according to three people familiar with the dynamic.

That’s why Biden’s comments Tuesday night that Harris would “cut her own path” set the stage for her to declare that, if elected, her presidency would not be a “continuation” of his during an interview with Fox News yesterday, these people said.

No one in the White House was surprised by those comments, one of the sources said, since conversations had happened privately before the Fox interview.