The former Vice President of the United States claims in the book that she felt the last person who could advise Joe Biden not to run in the presidential election in November last year.
Biden ended the re -election campaign to the White House on July 21, 2024. After a weak performance in the debate with the Republican opponent Donald Trump. This performance prompted advisers and activists of the Democratic Party to publicly question whether Biden would be able to bring a campaign or any second term to the end.
“Of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst situation to convince him to resign. I knew that he would consider it extremely selfish if I advised him not to run,” writes Harris in the book “107 days” (“107 days”), according to the fragment published in the magazine “The Atlantic”. “It would consider it an unrestrained ambition, and maybe even for perfidious betrayal” – confesses former Vice President of the United States.
“This is Joe's decision and [jego żony] Jill. We all repeated it like a mantra, as if we were hypnotized. Was it delicacy or recklessness? Looking back, I think it was recklessness. The rate was just too high. It was not a decision that had to be left to the ego or ambition of one person. It should be more than a personal decision, “he continues.
Only 107 days
Harris entered the presidential race immediately after Joe Biden's withdrawal and only had 107 days to convince American public opinion. She lost to 79-year-old Trump in the November election and went down to the background.
Still, Harris thinks Bidena too much more competent than Trump. “On his worst day he was better informed, more prudent and much more empathic than Donald Trump on his best day,” he writes.
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Joe Biden remains for now the oldest president of the United States. In spring, the former president was diagnosed with a “aggressive form” of simple cancer, which spread to the bones.
Harris, a former prosecutor general California, who later represented this state in the Senate, was the Vice President of the United States in 2021-2025, being the first woman, as well as the first person of South Asian origin who held this position.
“I was scaled”
The former Democrats candidate also accuses Biden's surroundings that She received too little support from the White Houseto repel the criticism of the far -right activists. “They had a huge communication team. Karine Jean-Pierre organized briefs in the press hall every day. However, obtaining a positive opinion about my work or defense against false attacks was almost impossible,” says Harris.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in Largo, Maryland, August 15, 2024Brendan Częlowski / AFP / AFP
What's more, she even suggests that “she learned that the president's team often fueled negative rumors about her.”
Harris also writes that in the White House “underestimated” a speech in which she drew attention to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Zone, whose text was previously approved. “It looks like I was scaled For the fact that I gave them too well, “says the former vice president.
Her book “107 days” (“107 days”), published by Simon & Schuster, will be released on September 23 in the United States and will be promoted during the promotional route. The title refers to the duration of the Kamali Harris presidential campaign.
Representatives of Joe Biden refused to comment on Harris's allegations.
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