"Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday evening that she regrets not expressing her concerns about then-President Joe Biden running for a second term when a majority of Americans felt he was too old for the job. "I have and had a certain responsibility that I should have followed through on," Harris told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC in her first live television interview since the election."
"In the book, Harris wrote that everyone in the White House would say "it's Joe and Jill's decision" about running for reelection, referring to the president and first lady. "Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness," she wrote. "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.""
"In her interview with Maddow, Harris said, "when I talk about the recklessness, as much as anything, I'm talking about myself." Harris said in the interview she was concerned that "it would come off as completely self-serving" if she had counseled Biden not to seek reelection. She had competed against him for their party's 2020 nomination, and she was well positioned to run again."
Kamala Harris expressed regret for not raising concerns privately about Joe Biden's 2024 reelection bid when many Americans worried about his age. She acknowledged a responsibility she did not follow through on and called the decision to leave the choice to Biden alone reckless. She feared counseling Biden would appear self-serving because she had been a 2020 presidential contender and was positioned to run. She noted worries about Biden's campaigning, citing a weaker voice and more frequent verbal stumbles. Biden later dropped out and Harris lost the general election to Donald Trump.
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