Kamala Harris Blasts Biden in New Memoir: Calls His 2024 Run “Recklessness”
Written by b87fm on 09/10/2025
Kamala Harris isn’t holding back anymore. In her upcoming memoir 107 Days, the former Vice President takes direct aim at her old boss Joe Biden — and she doesn’t mince words.
“It’s Joe and Jill’s decision. We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d been hypnotized,” Harris writes. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness.”
The excerpt, published Wednesday by The Atlantic, marks Harris’ sharpest critique yet of Biden — blasting his decision to chase a second term despite mounting concerns over his age and fitness.
Harris reveals she felt trapped as VP — unable to tell Biden not to run without looking self-serving.
“He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win,” she writes.
Instead, she watched Biden barrel toward a rematch with Trump — a gamble that ended in disaster. Biden’s faltering debate performance in 2024 set off alarm bells nationwide, fueling doubts about his ability to serve. He eventually dropped out, but the damage was done. Harris went on to lose to Trump that November.
Harris argues Biden’s decision to run should never have been left to “an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition.” At 81, she says, Biden’s physical and verbal stumbles betrayed his age — even as she still calls him “a smart guy with long experience and deep conviction.”
But Harris also turns her fire on the White House communications team, accusing them of leaving her exposed when Republicans branded her the so-called “border czar.” She recalls winning billions in corporate investments for Latin America to ease migration pressures — achievements she says the administration failed to highlight.
“No one in the White House team helped me push back and explain what I had really been tasked to do,” Harris writes.
She even cites a moment during a hurricane recovery trip to Texas, when she watched Biden deliver an 11-minute national address. Her staff counted: it took him nine minutes to even mention her.
Biden and Harris first clashed during the 2020 primaries before joining forces to beat Trump. But Harris now paints a picture of a partnership riddled with slights, frustrations, and silence.
Harris plans to go on a book tour of 15 cities, including in the United Kingdom and Canada, for 107 Days. The book is expected to go on sale on 23 September.
