In a forthcoming memoir, former Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a putting and candid critique of former President Joe Biden’s resolution to pursue a second time period, describing it as “recklessness” that positioned the nation’s future in peril. Excerpts from her guide, 107 Days, revealed in The Atlantic on Wednesday (September 10, 2025), reveal a deep-seated frustration inside the administration as questions concerning the 81-year-old president’s capability mounted forward of the 2024 election.
The memoir particulars a interval of rising nervousness inside Democratic circles, because the get together grappled with the implications of an getting old incumbent. Harris writes that the choice to run was handled as a personal matter, left solely to the discretion of Joe and Jill Biden. “All of us stated that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” she recounts. She then challenges this prevailing sentiment, stating, “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? On reflection, I feel it was recklessness.”
Harris explains her view that the stakes have been just too excessive for the choice to be left to a person’s “ego” or “ambition.” It ought to have been a collective consideration, she argues, reasonably than a private one. The previous vice chairman admits her personal troublesome place throughout that point, confessing that she felt unable to advise Biden towards operating with out showing “extremely self-serving” or disloyal. She writes, “I used to be within the worst place to make the case that he ought to drop out.”
The guide, which takes its title from the truncated size of her subsequent presidential marketing campaign, doesn’t query Biden’s mind or character. As an alternative, Harris defends him, portraying a person of deep conviction and expertise. Nonetheless, she notes that at 81, “Joe acquired drained,” and that fatigue “confirmed in bodily and verbal stumbles.” She ties his efficiency in a crucial June 2024 debate to an exhaustive journey schedule, however maintains her loyalty to the nation outdated any private loyalty she felt.
Harris additionally sheds mild on the interior dynamics of the Biden-Harris administration, describing a White Home employees that she felt marginalized her and was hesitant to defend her from Republican assaults. She claims there was a “zero-sum” mentality amongst some aides who believed “if she’s shining, he’s dimmed.” The memoir means that the administration’s failure to totally leverage her political strengths was a missed alternative, particularly given the general public’s rising concern over Biden’s age. The guide is about to be launched on September 23.
