Former Vice President Kamala Harris blames the "recklessness" of then-President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden that led to the Democrats' spectacular loss in the 2024 presidential election, Times of India reported. Harris made this claim in her new book, 107 Days, which chronicles her experiences during her short-lived candidacy.
Despite his advanced age and evident cognitive issues, Joe Biden decided to run for reelection. Harris now claims that it was his "ego" that influenced the decision to stick with it because the Bidens assumed he could once again defeat Donald Trump as he did in 2020, even though Joe Biden was in mental decline.
Nevertheless, Joe Biden stayed in the presidential race as the Democratic candidate long after it became apparent even to the public that he was having cognitive struggles. On the surface, Harris and the Bidens put up a united front as she insisted that the then-president was in tiptop shape.
Behind the scenes, it seems Harris was seething as Joe and Jill Biden put her in an awkward position. Harris took over as the Democratic candidate and ran a 107-day campaign, as the book title suggests, that led to a humiliating loss and a second term for President Donald Trump.
Harris' publisher released an excerpt ahead of the book set to debut later this month, and it appears she's ready to dish the dirt on the Bidens. Political commentator Clay Travis shared an image of a passage that serves as a telling indictment of the Bidens and their "ambition," which kept him in the race and hindered Harris's chances from the start.
"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," Travis captioned the excerpt on a post to X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.
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
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) September 10, 2025
"'It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.' We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized," Harris shared in the excerpt about the decision for Joe Biden to keep going despite losing ground.
"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," Harris added.
According to Fox News, Harris also claimed that before the Bidens even entertained the possibility of Joe Biden dropping out of the race, the relationship between the president and vice president had soured. Harris said that she was left on her own, noting it was "almost impossible" to get then-White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to advocate for her with the press.
"Worse, I often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me. One narrative that took a stubborn hold was that I had a 'chaotic' office and unusually high staff turnover during my first year," Harris claimed.
"Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well," Harris added.
"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," Harris claimed.
The Democrats lost the White House because Joe Biden stayed in the race too long for them to replace him with someone better. By the time he gave in and stepped down, Harris was the only viable choice they had, even though she was wildly unpopular and a terrible politician.
