In new book, Harris laments "recklessness" that led to Biden's 2024 campaign

Former Vice President Kamala Harris blamed "recklessness" for former President Biden's 2024 presidential bid, according to an excerpt published Wednesday from her new book "107 Days."Why it matters: Without attacking the Biden's acuity, Harris sounded off on the dynamics that contributed to his decision to run against then-former President Trump.What she's saying: "'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?" she wrote, per the excerpt published by The Atlantic. "In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn't a choice that should have been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision."State of play: Harris' book, "107 Days," is scheduled for release on Sept. 23. It chronicles the period between when Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and when Trump won the election.Her presidential campaign was the shortest in modern U.S. history. Zoom in: In the excerpt, Harris acknowledged Biden's poor debate performance in June, blaming it on exhaustion from a stacked travel schedule. "I don't believe it was incapacity," she wrote. "If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country." Friction point: Harris also said Biden's White House didn't adequately defend her when Republicans or conservative media mounted attacks or smeared her job performance."They had a huge comms team; they had Karine Jean-Pierre briefing in the pressroom every day," she wrote. "But getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible."She said the people around Biden "didn't like the contrast that was emerging" when she started polling well and the president was not. Go deeper: Kamala Harris using DNC to help sell her new book

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