An aide to Sen. Kamala Harris Kamala HarrisTexas Democratic official urges Biden to visit state: 'I thought he had his own plane' The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden on Trump: 'He'll leave' l GOP laywers brush off Trump's election remarks l Obama's endorsements A game theorist's advice to President Trump on filling the Supreme Court seat MORE's (D-Calif.) 2020 presidential campaign complained in a text exchange with BuzzFeed's top editor about a "problematic" tweet critical of Harris by a reporter for the news site.

BuzzFeed in a rare move released the exchange between Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith and the unidentified aide, which occurred after Harris again called on Twitter to ban President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE from Twitter during Tuesday night's Democratic debate. Harris also called on Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenOvernight Defense: Appeals court revives House lawsuit against military funding for border wall | Dems push for limits on transferring military gear to police | Lawmakers ask for IG probe into Pentagon's use of COVID-19 funds On The Money: Half of states deplete funds for Trump's 0 unemployment expansion | EU appealing ruling in Apple tax case | House Democrats include more aid for airlines in coronavirus package Warren, Khanna request IG investigation into Pentagon's use of coronavirus funds MORE (D-Mass.) to make the same declaration, which her fellow 2020 White House hopeful declined to do.

Behold this amazing exchange between @BuzzFeedBen and a Kamala Harris aide https://t.co/isRdKeMnBL pic.twitter.com/0Jr6EDaykm — Tom Gara (@tomgara) October 17, 2019

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“Hard to know if last night harmed or helped Warren, but think all can come together and agree a debate highlight was Warren telling Kamala Harris no about banning Trump from Twitter then just continuing with her point in the manner of shrugging off a Greenpeace clipboard person,” Buzzfeed reporter Katherine Miller tweeted during the debate.

“hey i have talked to her directly a few times when she’s tweeted out stuff like this, and i told her i was glad she deleted this tweet, but this kind of stuff is just a really horrible look for you guys," the unidentified aide wrote to Smith. "frankly, it’s whiteness manifest."

“if kamala shrugged off a warren critique of how she wasn’t with her on Facebook, we’d get raked and she would get lauded as taking on corporate power. the blithe mockery here of kamala, while lauding warren’s style, is just not up to par," the aide continues. "i say this to you just to be super frank and because i really like your guys’ work, the platform, and your reporters. we work well together across the board. but this is a bit problematic.”

“Do you seriously not have real problems?" Smith responded. "This text makes me think you are totally, totally unready for an actual presidential campaign.”

Harris surged in the polls following the first Democratic debate in late June, garnering more than 15 percent support in the RealClearPolitics index of polls as recently as July. But the campaign has struggled since, dropping to just 5.2 percent support as of Thursday morning.