Joe Biden’s re-election bid was ‘recklessness’

The former American vice-president, Kamala Harris, has given his strongest criticism to date from his former boss, calling for Joe Biden’s decision to ask for a “carelessness” of the second mandate in an extract from his next memories.

“” This is Joe and Jill’s decision. “We all said that, like a mantra, as if we were all hypnotized,” wrote Harris in his book. “Was it thanks, or was it imprudence? Retrospectively, I think it was carefree.”

In an extract from her book 107 Days, published Wednesday by the Atlantic, Harris also describes moments when she felt away or denied credit for her work of the Biden team.

The BBC contacted Biden’s office to comment.

Harris wrote that as vice-president, she was in the “worst position” to tell Biden to no longer show up for the presidency.

“I knew it would come back to him as incredibly selfish if I advised him not to run,” she wrote. “He would see it as a bare ambition, perhaps as a toxic disloyalty, even if my only message was: do not let the other guy win.”

The Atlantic has published an extract of 3,000 words from the Harris book – The title is a reference to the duration of its failed presidential campaign. The book will be published in whole later this month.

Biden withdrew from the 2024 race following a dark debate performance against the Republican candidate at the time, Donald Trump.

The performance of the debate has fueled questions about Biden’s age and mental ability to lead the country. Harris finally lost the elections against Trump.

Harris wrote that the choice of Bide, 81, to present himself to the re -election “should have been more than a personal decision”.

“The stakes were simply too high. It was not a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition,” she wrote.

She denied that there was a “big conspiracy” to hide the fragility of Biden and described the former president as “an intelligent guy with long experience and a deep condemnation, capable of paying the functions of president”.

“But at 81, Joe was tired. It was at this point that his age was in physical and verbal stumbling up,” she wrote.

Harris also alleges that the White House did not adequately respond to his criticism.

The former vice-president recalled having obtained billions of dollars in investment commitments from private companies for the countries of Latin America to help fight the deep cause of migration.

Despite this, Harris wrote, the Republicans “stretched out the role of” Border Czar “” – a description that has decontencated him during his presidential campaign because the number of illegal border crossings has increased.

“Person in the White House [communications] The team helped me repel effectively and explain what I had really been responsible for doing, nor to emphasize the progress I had made, “she wrote.

Harris also described a trip she made to Texas in July 2024, following a devastating hurricane and listening to a Biden television address in a hotel room in Houston.

“It was a good speech, based on the history of the presidency to locate its own place,” she wrote. “But as my staff said later, it took almost nine minutes after the address of 11 minutes before mentioning me.”

Biden and Harris both ran for democratic appointment in 2020, and Biden chose his former rival as a running mate. Their ticket beat Donald Trump and Mike Pence in November of the same year.

Despite suggestions for criticisms that he was too old to serve a second four -year term, Biden launched a re -election offer in 2023.

Harris plans to tour 15 cities, especially in the United Kingdom and Canada for 107 days. The book should be sold on September 23.