Kamala Harris betrays Joe Biden, blames his wife and team

In her forthcoming book 107 Days, dedicated to her shortened 2024 presidential campaign, Kamala Harris looks back at a key moment from that period.

In it, she delivers a frank reflection on Joe Biden and his re-election bid against Donald Trump, arguing that the decision shouldn’t have rested solely on him: “The stakes were simply too high.”

In her reflection, Kamala Harris explains that the Democratic Party and Joe Biden’s entourage seemed to be caught in a form of collective hypnosis, repeating over and over that the decision to run again belonged solely to Joe and Jill Biden.

“It’s Joe and Jill’s decision,” she wrote in her memoir, according to CNN, before adding: “We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized”, and this despite the increasingly obvious concerns in the polls.

For several months now, the country has been living again under Donald Trump’s presidency, confronted with realities that Kamala Harris warned about during the 2024 campaign: threats to democratic institutions, risky economic measures, and worrying diplomacy towards Vladimir Putin and Ukraine.

In hindsight, Harris believes that the decision to let Joe Biden run again against Trump should not have been a matter of personal choice:

“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.”

Kamala Harris also shares her critical observations on Joe Biden’s team, whom she seems partly to hold responsible for certain mistakes.

In particular, she criticizes them for not having supported her sufficiently when she was poorly represented in the media, and for not having given her enough visibility to show that Joe Biden was surrounded by a solid, credible ally, despite growing criticism of his age.

Harris believes that this lack of support and visibility greatly affected voters’ perception of her, weakening their confidence in her by reducing her presence on the political scene.

The former vice-president says, however, in the name of her loyalty to her country, that she can say without hesitation that, even on his worst day, Joe Biden remained, in her opinion, better than Trump.

“On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump on his best”, she wrote. 

At least some good words…

Kamala Harris’ book 107 Days launches on September 23, 2025. She will launch a 15-city tour the following day, taking in New York, London, Toronto and several major U.S. cities, to share the behind-the-scenes story of her shortened presidential campaign and her post-election reflections.