Former Vice President Kamala Harris says that Democrats made a mistake and it was “recklessness” to permit President Joe Biden to make the choice alone on operating for reelection, saying the selection mustn’t have been “left to a person’s ego.”
In an excerpt from her forthcoming guide, “107 Days,” revealed in The Atlantic Wednesday morning, Harris, in a outstanding turnaround, stated “as loyal as I’m to President Biden, I’m extra loyal to my nation,” and lamented her time in Biden’s administration, saying “getting something constructive stated about my work or any protection towards unfaithful assaults was nearly not possible.”
Harris stated the president’s workers fueled detrimental tales about her efficiency as vice chairman and sometimes refused to defend her towards assaults towards Republicans, together with the narrative that she had a “chaotic” workplace and unusually excessive workers turnover throughout her first 12 months.
“I used to be the primary vice chairman to have a devoted press pool monitoring my each public transfer,” Harris stated. “Earlier than me, vice presidents had what’s known as a ‘supplemental pool,” as the primary woman does, masking essential occasions. Due to this fixed consideration, issues that had by no means been particularly newsworthy in regards to the vice chairman have been all of a sudden reported and scrutinized.”
At one other level within the excerpt, Harris defended Biden, dismissing those that say he was incapable of serving as president.
ABC Information has reached out to the Biden camp for remark.
In Could, Biden, in a wide-ranging interview on ABC’s “The View,” stated he was not stunned by Harris’ loss within the 2024 presidential election, however not due to her {qualifications} as a candidate — as a substitute, pointing to what he stated was sexism and racism leveled towards her.
“I wasn’t stunned, not as a result of I did not assume the vice chairman was probably the most certified individual to be president … I wasn’t stunned as a result of they went the route of — the sexist route, the entire route,” Biden stated.
However Biden, individually in the identical interview, stated he nonetheless thinks he would have crushed Trump if he had stayed within the race.
“Yeah, he nonetheless bought seven million fewer votes,” Biden stated of Trump, noting by how a lot he beat Trump within the 2020 election standard vote.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris delivers the keynote speech on the Emerge twentieth Anniversary Gala in San Francisco, April 30, 2025.
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When requested to reply to claims that he ought to have dropped out of the race and endorse Harris sooner, Biden stated within the interview that Harris nonetheless had an extended interval to marketing campaign and that they labored collectively “in each determination I made.”
Biden additionally denied reporting that claimed he had suggested Harris to counsel that there was no daylight between the 2 of them — saying that they have been companions and labored collectively.
Harris, nonetheless, now sees this barely in a different way.
“When the tales have been unfair or inaccurate, the president’s internal circle appeared tremendous with it,” Harris stated within the excerpt from her guide. “Certainly, it appeared as in the event that they determined I needs to be knocked down just a little bit extra.”
“Their pondering was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed,” Harris stated. “None of them grasped that if I did effectively, he did effectively. That given the issues about his age, my seen success as his vice chairman was very important. It will function a testomony to his judgment in selecting me and reassurance that if one thing occurred, the nation was in good palms. My success was essential for him.”
“His workforce didn’t get it,” Harris stated.
