Harris just did the unthinkable. She’s turned her back on the former president.
And Kamala Harris slams Biden to the ground with a shocking betrayal.
In a stunning revelation that’s sure to rock the Democrat elite, Kamala Harris is unloading on Joe Biden in her upcoming memoir, calling his stubborn push for a second term nothing short of reckless. The former Vice President pulls no punches in 107 Days, exposing the chaos behind the scenes in the White House.
Harris lays it out plain: Biden’s choice to cling to power was a disaster waiting to happen. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she writes, zeroing in on her own hesitation to force him out of the 2024 race sooner.
She hammers home the point that such a massive call couldn’t be trusted to one man’s vanity. “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.”
Yet, Harris admits she stayed silent amid the mounting alarm over Biden’s mental sharpness, chalking it up to her own sense of duty. She describes herself as a “loyal person,” but that didn’t keep her from firing off some sharp criticisms at the administration’s inner circle.
The book excerpt, snagged by The Atlantic, reveals Harris felt sidelined and undefended against relentless smears. When she was “attacked … on everything from my laugh, to my tone of voice, to whom I’d dated in my 20s, or claimed I was a ‘DEI hire,’ the White House rarely pushed back with my actual résumé,” she gripes.
Harris goes further, accusing Biden’s team of making things worse by stoking the flames of those attacks. “They had a huge comms team; they had Karine Jean-Pierre briefing in the pressroom every day. But getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible.”
Even more d*mning, she claims the president’s staff actively fed into the negativity. “Worse, I often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me,” Harris writes.
She ties it to her rising poll numbers, which apparently threatened Biden’s glow. Harris suggests the mindset was all about competition: “Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital.”
In her view, her achievements should have bolstered Biden’s image. “It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands. My success was important for him.”
But the team just didn’t understand, she insists. “His team didn’t get it.” This insider betrayal highlights the dysfunction at the top of the Democrat machine, where ego trumps teamwork.
Despite the barbs, Harris stands by her choice not to intervene, noting Biden’s past win against Trump gave him some credibility. She stayed mum on her worries because “It was just possible he was right about this, too.”
Harris explains her tricky spot, saying any push from her would look like a power grab. “And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out.”
“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.”
The whole crew chanted the same line, she recalls, like they were under a spell. “’It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized.”
Harris draws a line, though, swearing she’d have acted if Biden seemed truly unfit. “Many people want to spin up a narrative of some big conspiracy at the White House to hide Joe Biden’s infirmity. Here is the truth as I lived it.”
“Joe Biden was a smart guy with long experience and deep conviction, able to discharge the duties of president. On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump on his best.”
She blames his flops on exhaustion from old age and grueling schedules, like those Europe trips and fundraisers. “But at 81, Joe got tired. That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles. I don’t think it’s any surprise that the debate debacle happened right after two back-to-back trips to Europe and a flight to the West Coast for a Hollywood fundraiser.”
“I don’t believe it was incapacity. If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country.”
