'Snubbed': Kamala Harris hasn’t invited JD Vance to 'format sit-down tour' of VP mansion

During a joint session of Congress on Monday, January 6, outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris certified her own loss in the United States' 2024 presidential race. Harris oversaw the counting of electoral votes for the Donald Trump/JD Vance ticket, and unlike Trump after the 2020 election, she made no attempt to delegitimize her political opponent.

President-elect Trump will return to the White House on January 20, and Vance will be sworn in as vice president.

Since the 1970s, vice presidents have been living in a U.S. Naval Observatory residence in Washington. And according to CBS News, Harris "has not extended an invitation for a formal sit-down or tour" of the mansion where VP-elect Vance, his wife Usha Vance and their children will be living.

READ MORE: DC hotel bookings way down for Trump inauguration as even protesters decide to skip

CBS News' Jennifer Jacobs reports, "In November, Usha Vance, via intermediaries, reached out to staff for the home's current occupants, Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, seeking details including what they would need to childproof it. Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel Vance are all under the age of eight. The questions were initially rebuffed by a Harris political appointee."

Jacobs continues, "But there has since been communication between the Vance team and Navy aides who oversee the residence. Before Christmas, Navy officials provided an overview of the house to discuss the layout of the residence, logistics and practicalities of the move-in, and to help answer any questions the Vances had, a person familiar with the call said."

The Daily Beast's Leigh Kimmins puts it this way: Harris "has reportedly snubbed her successor, JD Vance, by not inviting him for a tour of his new digs."

Jacobs notes, however, that according to "people close to Harris," she "was never afforded an opportunity to visit the home before she was sworn in in 2021."

READ MORE: 'Quite unlikely': Analysis exposes key Trump campaign promises as unrealistic — if not 'impossible'

"Harris did not move into the Naval Observatory residence until April 2021, about three months after being sworn in, because the house was in need of repairs," Jacobs reports.

READ MORE: 'New level of shamelessness': Johnson slammed over response on California aid

Read the full CBS News article at this link.