Kamala Harris Blasts Biden’s 2024 Run as ‘Recklessness’ in Explosive Memoir

Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has sharply criticized the decision to let Joe Biden seek a second term in 2024, describing it as “recklessness” in excerpts from her upcoming memoir, 107 Days, published Wednesday by The Atlantic.

Harris, who replaced Biden as the Democratic candidate after his withdrawal but ultimately lost to Donald Trump, admitted that at 81, Biden often appeared “tired” and prone to stumbles that revealed his age.

“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” Harris wrote. “The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego or ambition.”

Biden dropped out of the race in July 2024 after a disastrous debate with Trump intensified concerns about his age and mental sharpness. While Harris denied any cover-up of Biden’s condition, she acknowledged that his struggles were evident.

“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. “But at 81, Joe got tired. That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles.”

Harris also turned her fire on Biden’s inner circle, accusing White House staff of undermining her during her time as vice president.

“When the stories were unfair or inaccurate, the president’s inner circle seemed fine with it. Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more,” she revealed.

The memoir also recounts how Harris “shouldered the blame” for Biden’s controversial border policy — an issue that Trump capitalized on during the election.

Harris’s book, named after her whirlwind 107-day campaign, revisits the shortest presidential run in modern U.S. history, ending with Trump’s emphatic victory in November 2024.