Former Vice President Kamala Harris blasted former President Joe Biden‘s decision to run for a second term in her forthcoming memoir 107 Days, according to an excerpt obtained by the Atlantic on Wednesday (September 10).
Harris wrote that she was “in the worst position” to be the one to advise Biden to drop out of the 2024 election as she would seem “incredibly self-serving” and noted that it was ultimately up to the then-president and his wife, former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, though fearing a loss to then-former President Donald Trump.
“And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out,” Harris wrote. “I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.
“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”
Harris said she didn’t interject because she’s a “loyal person” and acknowledged that “the American people had chosen him before in the same matchup” of Biden and Trump.
“During all those months of growing panic, should I have told Joe to consider not running? Perhaps. But the American people had chosen him before in the same matchup. Maybe he was right to believe that they would do so again,” Harris wrote. “He was, by some measures, the most consistently underestimated man in Washington. He’d been right about his tactics for pushing his agenda through a resistant Congress.”
Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic nominee after he announced his decision to end his campaign in July 2024 and was defeated by President Trump after she ran the shortest presidential campaign in American history.
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