Kamala Harris Calls Joe Biden ‘Reckless’ In Her New Book

Kamala Harris didn’t hide how she felt about Joe Biden in her new book.

In Kamala Harris’s new book, 107 Days, the former Vice President threw some jabs at Joe Biden.

In her book, she revealed that she believed Joe Biden’s announcement of his reelection campaign was ‘reckless’.

She also added the choice of his running should  not have been left for his “ego.”

CNN provided more details on Harris’ claims:

“In retrospect,” Kamala Harris writes of letting Joe and Jill Biden decide on their own whether the then-president should have tried to run for re-election, “I think it was recklessness.”

That is the assessment that the former vice president makes in her forthcoming memoir of her abbreviated 2024 run, in a significant break from the dutiful stance she took toward her old boss throughout their time in office and since.

“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris writes in the first excerpt of “107 Days” published Wednesday morning by The Atlantic. “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.”

Part of the problem, Harris writes, was a Biden team so committed to not helping her that she says it ultimately came at his own, and the country’s expense.

“When polls indicated that I was getting more popular, the people around him didn’t like the contrast that was emerging,” Harris writes. “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. 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.”

“His team,” Harris ends the chapter by writing, “didn’t get it.”

Read an excerpt here:

Kamala Harris says in her new book that Joe Biden running for re-election was reckless and shouldn’t have happened. So brave of her to say the opposite now of what she said for years. pic.twitter.com/WvaADCnB39

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Axios reported Harris claimed that Biden’s team would not defend her:

Harris also said Biden’s White House didn’t adequately defend her when Republicans or conservative media mounted attacks or smeared her job performance.

“They had a huge comms team; they had Karine Jean-Pierre briefing in the pressroom every day,” she wrote. “But getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible.”

She said the people around Biden “didn’t like the contrast that was emerging” when she started polling well and the president was not.