Kamala Harris Blames Biden Admin for Lack of Support During Failed Presidential Run
Kamala Harris took a swipe at the Biden administration during a Wednesday night interview with Jimmy Kimmel, saying she didn’t get the support she needed during her ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign.
“Certainly I think we needed more time. And from certain places in the administration, we needed more support,” Harris said when asked whether Biden and his team did enough to help her campaign.
The former vice president’s remarks come amid a media blitz to promote her new book 107 Days, which documents her chaotic presidential bid and decision to drop out. Harris has made several high-profile appearances in recent weeks, including a keynote speech at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting, further fueling speculation about a potential 2028 run.
Though she once defended the Biden administration staunchly, Harris has shifted tone in recent months, criticizing the same establishment she once championed. When pressed by Kimmel about why the Biden administration refused to release the Epstein files, Harris gave a confusing answer.
“To give you an answer that will not satisfy your curiosity, we — perhaps to our damage — but we strongly, and rightly, believed that there should be an absolute separation between what we wanted as an administration and what the Department of Justice did,” Harris said. “We absolutely adhered to that and it was right to do that.”
Kimmel also asked her about the pace and perceived chaos of President Trump’s second term. Harris delivered a rambling response, claiming what people were seeing was not chaos but rather “a high velocity event.”
“It is moving quickly, which is the swift implantation of a plan that has been, in a large part, decades in the making,” she said. “The Federalist Society, all of the work that has happened, Heritage Foundation, all the work that has happened over years that is about deconstructing government’s ability to have checks and balances on abuse of power.”
Despite her failed bid, early Democratic primary polling for 2028 shows Harris near the top of the potential field.