https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/recklessness-kamala-harris-turns-joe-biden-new-book/story?id=125433097Former Vice President Kamala Harris says that Democrats made a mistake and it was "recklessness" to allow President Joe Biden to make the decision alone on running for reelection, saying the choice should not have been "left to an individual’s ego.”In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, "107 Days," published in The Atlantic Wednesday morning, Harris, in a remarkable turnaround, said "as loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country," and lamented her time in Biden’s administration, saying "getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible."Harris said the president’s staff fueled negative stories about her performance as vice president and often refused to defend her against attacks against Republicans, including the narrative that she had a "chaotic" office and unusually high staff turnover during her first year."I was the first vice president to have a dedicated press pool tracking my every public move," Harris said. "Before me, vice presidents had what’s called a ‘supplemental pool," as the first lady does, covering important events. Because of this constant attention, things that had never been especially newsworthy about the vice president were suddenly reported and scrutinized."
At another point in the excerpt, Harris defended Biden, dismissing those who say he was incapable of serving as president.ABC News has reached out to the Biden camp for comment.In May, Biden, in a wide-ranging interview on ABC's "The View,” said he was not surprised by Harris' loss in the 2024 presidential election, but not because of her qualifications as a candidate -- instead, pointing to what he said was sexism and racism leveled against her."I wasn't surprised, not because I didn't think the vice president was the most qualified person to be president … I wasn't surprised because they went the route of -- the sexist route, the whole route," Biden said.But Biden, separately in the same interview, said he still thinks he would have beaten Trump if he had stayed in the race."Yeah, he still got seven million fewer votes," Biden said of Trump, noting by how much he beat Trump in the 2020 election popular vote.When asked to respond to claims that he should have dropped out of the race and endorse Harris sooner, Biden said in the interview that Harris still had a long period to campaign and that they worked together "in every decision I made."
Biden also denied reporting that claimed he had advised Harris to suggest that there was no daylight between the two of them -- saying that they were partners and worked together.Harris, however, now sees this slightly differently."When the stories were unfair or inaccurate, the president’s inner circle seemed fine with it,” Harris said in the excerpt from her book. “Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more.""Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed," Harris said. “None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. 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.""His team didn’t get it," Harris said.
>>1433529It's amazing how all of these right wing conspiracy theories keep turning out to be true
>It's amazing how all of these right wing conspiracy theories keep turning out to be truethread not related?
Hey campaign spent 2 billion dollars and couldn't get her ass elected. Maybe they shouldn't have stopped running women against Trump
>>1433536read the OP pic>>1433537they should've just had a primary and also not allowed the country to be invaded for most of Biden's term.
>>1433529michelle obama would've done better then Kamala. Kamala and AOC are two of the most disgusting politicians in recent years, all you'll get is the karen and narcissist votes.
>>1433536democrats consider everything they dislike a conspiracy.
>>1433529Harris turned on Biden when she ran for president>>1433533No they don't.>>1433537She lost because there wasn't a primary. >>1433545They're right.
>>1433559>No they don'tlol>They're rightlmao
>>1434013It's funny because it's true.
>>1434059>>1433559No Democrat could have beat Trump this time
>>1434370Trump didn't win on his policies. He won because Democrats fucked their chances.
>>1434370All the Dems had to do to win was run a man against Trump. But they had no choice going with Kamala once they decided the next VP in 2020 had to be a black woman.
>>1434371>Trump didn't win on his policies. He won because Democrats fucked their chances.Trump won on policies and Democrats are unhinged sociopaths.
>>1434385trump won because he's a malleable fool beholden to the super rich
>>1434385Trump is so senile he literally can't be trusted to testify on his own behalf unless they plead the fifth constantlyThe only reason people reply to you is to tease out more lolcow responses. Entertain me now, please
>>1433529>Harris turns on Biden!I bet she does, I bet she does!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Kwh3R0YjuQ
>>1434404She kinda turns me on too.
>>1433529Biden will be remembered as a weak, stupid, doddering old fool who let trump off the hook, he doesn't have time to change that legacy nor should he be allowed to do anything but watch his idiotic choices crash and burn.
>>1434388Is that why most billionaires backed Biden and Harris and why Elon and Trump had a falling out because Trump wouldn't do what Elon wanted?https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/10/30/kamala-harris-has-more-billionaires-prominently-backing-her-than-trump-bezos-and-griffin-weigh-in-updated/https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/02/15/biden-beats-trump-in-another-demographic-billionaires/
>>1434383>>1434370>>1434371Trump won because Biden let the country be invaded. No Democrat could have won because nobody wanted 4 more years of that border.
>>1434496biden will be remembered as the man who beat Trump by 20000000 votes.
>>1434508Cool campaign meme, grandpa, did you post it on facebook so you can share with the group?
>>1434507That's why Trump has twelve billionaires in his cabinet right now and Biden had zero
>>1433541>>1433559An open primary would have ended in her defeat, because she was an unlikeable character.
>>1434520Agreed, but who would have been the dem candidate if there was an open primary? Besides that, the system of superdelegates picking the candidates at the DNC convention is outdated and unfair. It needs to go.
>>1434528The GOPs system is so much better put together. Its the same system of superdelegates, they just don't listen to the people in lieu of listening to billionaires
Just plain sad.
>>1434510>haha it's just a meme you guys, nobody actually cares if our country is invaded lol
>>1435168you can stop invading our internet now faggot
>>1433559>She lost because there wasn't a primary.Real talk, do you think the democrats will have learned their lesson about this next election? I'd like to think they will, because everytime they fucked up their primary, they lost to Trump.Bernie should've won the 2016 primary and would've wiped the floor with Trump, 2024 I don't even know who the candidates were but literally *anybody* would've been better than "nothing's going to change when I'm president" Harris. I hope they will change. But for some reason I think they're too scared of their voter-base to let them choose their candidates, because they know the voter-base will choose someone that actually wants to change shit. Zohran winning the NYC primary was a nice change of pace, so maybe that will teach them something, but I'm not holding my breath
