Harris admits silence on Biden's 2024 re-election bid was 'recklessness'

It was reckless to allow former President Joe Biden to run for re-election last year former Vice President Kamala Harris admitted in her new book Days This time last year Harris was in the thick of her short-lived presidential campaign With specific distance from Washington D C and in retrospect Harris doesn't hold back in the first preview of her new book that is set to hit shelves later this month 'It s Joe and Jill s decision ' We all declared that like a mantra as if we d all been hypnotized Was it grace or was it recklessness In retrospect I think it was recklessness The stakes were exclusively 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 reported in the excerpt published by The Atlantic on Wednesday morning While Harris publicly defended Biden throughout his presidency in the first excerpt of Harris' highly anticipated account of the shortest presidential campaign in history the former vice president described how she was often scapegoated by the Biden administration And for the first time she admitted that perhaps she should have described Biden to consider not running HARRIS ADMITS BIDEN 'GOT TIRED ' DENIES 'CONSPIRACY' TO HIDE MENTAL DECLINEDuring her brief presidential campaign Harris often walked a fine line in trying to defend Biden for whom she remained his vice president while also differentiating herself from his unflattering record KAMALA HARRIS ADMITS THERE ARE THINGS SHE WOULD'VE DONE DIFFERENTLY IN FAILS TO ELABORATE There is not a thing that comes to mind Harris infamously explained on The View when questioned what she would have done differently than Biden The clip was an instant attack ad for Republican candidates up and down the ballot to pit Biden's shortcomings on Harris Harris later explained Fox News' Bret Baier that her presidency would not be a continuation of Joe Biden's presidency as she sought to distance herself from Biden's stances on the economic activity and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza And of all the people in the White House I was in the worst position to make the episode that he should drop out Harris commented in the Days excerpt I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run He would see it as naked ambition perhaps as poisonous disloyalty even if my only message was Don t let the other guy win Harris explained she rationalized her decision to stay quiet by telling herself the American people had chosen him before in the same matchup and maybe he was right to believe he could defeat President Donald Trump again I don t believe it was incapacity If I considered that I would have reported so As loyal as I am to President Biden I am more loyal to my country Harris stated in the book But as described in Original Sin one of several books this year to pull back the curtain on the reality of the Biden administration loyalty to Biden was wielded as a weapon in the White House Because I d gone after him over busing in the primary debate I came into the White House with what we lawyers call a rebuttable presumption I had to prove my loyalty time and time again Harris commented in the book In the excerpt Harris goes on to describe how the White House rarely pushed back when she was criticized for her gaffes or when Republicans mischaracterized my role as frontier czar Harris explained how she often had to prove her loyalty to Biden yet Biden's inner circle seemed glad to let her dominate headlines Their thinking was zero-sum If she s shining he s dimmed None of them 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 fundamental for him the former vice president argued in the Days excerpt CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP His crew didn t get it Harris commented Fox News Digital reached out to Biden's office for comment but did not without delay hear back