Kamala Turns On Biden In First Excerpt From New Memoir: ‘It Was Recklessness’
In a scathing new memoir titled 107 Days, Kamala Harris unloads on former President Joe Biden, accusing him of ego-driven recklessness during the 2024 election and claiming his team actively worked to sideline her throughout their time in the White House.
The first excerpts, released Wednesday, detail Harris’s deep frustrations with Biden’s decision to run for re-election and her powerlessness to stop it. According to Harris, every time concerns about Biden’s age and viability came up, the default answer from the White House was always the same: “It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.”
“We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris writes. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high.”
Blocked and Undermined by Biden’s Team
Harris paints a picture of an administration that sidelined her and failed to defend her publicly. She claims Biden’s staff routinely allowed negative media narratives to fester and even fueled them behind the scenes.
“They had a huge comms team; they had Karine Jean-Pierre briefing in the pressroom every day,” Harris says. “But getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible.”
She added that White House aides “seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more,” and that Biden himself did little to correct the narrative.
Harris also blasts the White House’s refusal to promote her successes, especially after Biden appointed her as the lead on border policy — a move she claims was deliberately mischaracterized and politically toxic.
On Biden’s Fitness and the 2024 Campaign
Despite repeatedly denying there was any “big conspiracy” to hide Biden’s physical or mental decline, Harris admits she was deeply concerned about his decision to run again.
“I don’t believe it was incapacity. If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country.”
Still, she confesses that she couldn’t publicly tell Biden to drop out without it being viewed as self-serving.
“I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run,” she writes. “He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”
A Shot at Redemption or a Burn Book?
Harris’s memoir is set for release on September 23 and is already stirring up intense reactions inside the Beltway. As President Donald Trump campaigns on rebuilding America and ending the chaos of the Biden years, Harris’s tell-all may prove to be a damning indictment of the administration she once defended — and a major liability for the Democrats going into 2026.