It was out of a sense of “recklessness,” not duty, that former President Joe Biden decided to seek reelection in 2024, former Vice President Kamala Harris writes in her new memoir. Harris became the Democratic Party’s nominee after Biden left the race.
“It’s Joe and Jill’s decision. We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris said, according to an excerpt from her book, “107 Days,” as reported in The Atlantic on Wednesday. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? 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.”
Harris’ memoir begins with the events of July 21, 2024, the day Biden told her and the world that he was leaving the race for a second term in the White House. The excerpt released Wednesday details events from July 24, three days after his announcement.
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