Former Vice President Kamala Harris concedes she made a grave mistake by holding again from advising her former boss, Joe Biden, towards pursuing reelection in 2024, declaring that: “In retrospect, I think it was recklessness.”
In an excerpt from her upcoming ebook “107 Days” revealed Wednesday in The Atlantic, Harris says that “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,” she writes.
However Harris acknowledged that she was unsuitable to relaxation such an essential name on simply Biden and his spouse, Jill.
“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” she writes. “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.”
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Harris’ willingness to create a long way between herself and the previous president stands in distinction to the method she took towards Biden after she turned the Democratic nominee following his withdrawal from the election in July 2024.
In an interview with “The View” in October 2024, she stated she wouldn’t have completed something in a different way than Biden over the previous 4 years — a press release that Republicans used to assault her.
Nonetheless, Harris made clear within the excerpt that she didn’t consider Biden was unfit to serve regardless of his poor efficiency within the debate towards now-President Donald Trump in June 2024, which prompted requires him to exit the race.
“On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump on his best. But at 81, Joe got tired,” she writes.
“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,” she continues.
The previous vice chairman additionally didn’t maintain again on calling out Biden’s workforce, alleging that they undermined her and didn’t defend her from unfair assaults, with out realizing that their response ended up hurting their boss.
“If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well,” she writes. “That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital.”
Over the summer time, Harris introduced she wouldn’t pursue a run for California governor to succeed Gavin Newsom who’s term-limited however has but to rule out a 2028 presidential bid.
Learn the complete excerpt at The Atlantic.
