Vice President Kamala Harris currently has zero plans to campaign with President Joe Biden before election day and is instead relying on multimillionaire entertainment figures and former Democratic presidents to try and relate to average Americans who have struggled under the Biden-Harris regime.

Instead, Biden plans to assist Harris this week by leveraging his longstanding political relationships, particularly with labor leaders, and hosting official White House events that showcase his administration’s achievements, officials told NBC News. His schedule for the final week before the election has yet to be finalized, they added.

This strategy was developed in collaboration between Harris and Biden’s aides, who believe that “the most important role he can play is doing his job as president,” according to one White House official who, like others cited in this piece, requested anonymity to speak freely, NBC News reported.

“He’s out there doing the job as president, and she’s out there campaigning,” the official said, adding: “It’s clear voters want something new.”

A Harris campaign official referred to Biden’s involvement in the remainder of the campaign as “tailored.” This reflects a significantly reduced role for the president, who until recently led the Democratic ticket.

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As the election nears, Harris is working to persuade voters that she represents change rather than a continuation of Biden’s presidency. Her team believes that showcasing her alongside Biden could detract from this message and hurt her chances in the final stretch of the campaign.

“Harris has to be establishing herself as a change agent, and it’s hard to do that with a sitting president at her side,” one longtime Democratic strategist said.

“Let me be very clear: My presidency will not be a continuation of Joe Biden’s presidency,” Harris said Wednesday in a Fox News interview.

That said, Harris told “The View” earlier this month that she couldn’t think of a single thing that she would do differently than Biden during their nearly four years in office.

“If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?” co-host Sunny Hostin asked.

Harris responded, “There is not a thing that comes to mind.” She added: “I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact.”

She highlighted the administration’s initiatives to cap insulin costs and expressed her deep commitment to the issue.

“Allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and bring the cost of prescription medication down for seniors, but my intention is to expand that for all Americans,” she added. “The work we have done to invest in American industries, whether it be in terms of manufacturing and creating almost 800,000 new jobs around manufacturing, those were all a shared priority,” she said.

But House Republicans, citing government data, begged to differ. They say the numbers show that small businesses declined during Biden-Harris, along with manufacturing jobs.

“A stumbling job market is a part of the price Americans are paying as the Federal Reserve tries to clean up the inflation crisis created by the Biden-Harris Administration’s runaway spending. The Biden-Harris Administration has spent billions for a manufacturing jobs boom, but really, it’s been a blue-collar bust,” Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said in September.

“America, today, has fewer manufacturing jobs than it did a year ago. Small businesses are getting crushed by failed policies and had to cut over 43,000 jobs just in the last year. Make no mistake, the Biden-Harris Administration is no friend to small businesses or workers. Meanwhile, the Administration’s grow-government-first hiring spree continues with another 24,000 new bureaucrats added to the already 1.5 million paid for by Democrats’ reckless spending,” he noted further, adding that in August alone, manufacturers cut 24,000 jobs.

“Instead of cutting spending, taxes and nonsense regulations, the Biden-Harris plan is to raise taxes on workers, families, farmers, and small businesses by letting the Trump tax cuts expire. Their plan for small businesses is to raise tax rates to over 44 percent, a rate more than 20 points higher than that of Communist China,” Smith continued.

“That’s why Ways and Means Republican Tax Teams are fighting to restore and extend the Trump tax cuts that have a proven record of helping job creators of all sizes hire new workers and raise wages,” he said.