"(Photo by Craig Hudson/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images) Former Vice President Kamala Harris performed a striking pivot from her full-throated defense of former President Joe Biden's 2024 reelection campaign to now, in a new memoir, declaring it utter recklessness for the Democratic Party to have been steered by Biden's ego and ambition. In a newly published excerpt from her forthcoming memoir, 107 Days, Harris claims that she and others in the party were hypnotized by Joe and Jill Biden's insistence that he should run again."
"Yet Harris also portrays herself as trapped, laying out her sense of paralysis on the issue at the time. She writes that she knew that telling Biden he should drop out would have been seen as naked ambition or poisonous disloyalty. In other words, she now suggests she understood she might have been in a position to tell him not to run, but balked at the consequences."
"In February 2024, as Biden pressed ahead with his campaign, Harris was one of his most forceful defenders in the wake of special counsel Robert Hur's report on his handling of classified documents. Hur, who interviewed the president at length, described Biden's memory as poor and marked by significant limitations. Harris hit back, Axios reported at the time, dismissing the characterisation as gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate."
Kamala Harris recounts feeling that party leaders were hypnotized by Joe and Jill Biden's insistence that he run again and portrays herself as trapped and paralyzed on the question. She says she understood that advising Biden to withdraw would be perceived as naked ambition or poisonous disloyalty, so she balked at intervening. Publicly, Harris vigorously defended Biden’s 2024 bid, dismissed critiques of his age and memory after Robert Hur’s report, and remained a forceful supporter through the summer, creating a sharp contrast between private doubts and public advocacy.
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