Axios - Former aides to Joe Biden reacted with rage yesterday to an excerpt from Kamala Harris' upcoming book in which she said the ex-president was "reckless" to run again and accused Biden's team of sabotaging her during her vice presidency.
- The Biden and Harris camps publicly have claimed they were united through the four years of Biden's presidency, but now Harris is trying to distance herself from him — after not doing so during her short run for president.
The release of the excerpt from her book, "107 Days" — due out Sept. 23 — has exposed years of hurt feelings and frustrations
- "She had basically zero substantive role in any of the administration's key work streams," said one former Biden White House official, "and instead would just dive bomb in for stilted photo ops that exposed how out of depth she was."
In Harris' book excerpt in The Atlantic, she writes that none of the people around Biden "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 criticizes Biden and his team's decision to run for re-election at age 81.
- "'It's Joe and Jill's decision.' We all said that, like a mantra, as if we'd all been hypnotized," Harris wrote. "Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness." MORE
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