Former officials from President Biden’s administration are reportedly now lashing out at Vice President Kamala Harris over her explosive new memoir, which accuses the White House of undermining her and criticizes Biden’s decision to run for reelection in 2024 as driven by “ego.”
The controversy stems from excerpts of Harris’s forthcoming book, 107 Days, published Wednesday in The Atlantic. In the memoir, Harris alleges that Biden’s inner circle deliberately worked to “knock [her] down a little bit” and even planted negative stories about her in right-leaning media outlets.
The revelations have reignited long-whispered tensions between the Biden and Harris camps, despite repeated denials of division during their time in office.
Several Biden alumni rejected Harris’s narrative and placed blame for her political struggles squarely on her own shoulders. One former official was blunt: “Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job,” the aide said. Biden, they added, “is not the reason she struggled in office or tanked her 2019 campaign. Or lost the 2024 campaign, for that matter.”
Another longtime aide dismissed her account as little more than “an attempt at political absolution,” suggesting Harris is seeking to rewrite her legacy after a failed presidential run. “I’m not sure the very robust defense of not having the courage to speak up in the moment about Biden running is quite as persuasive as she thinks it is,” the official remarked, before adding sarcastically: “Lots of luck in your senior year.”
Even the prospect of Harris mounting another presidential campaign was met with derision. Asked about the possibility of a 2028 run, one former Biden aide scoffed: “We’re not going back!” — a pointed jab at Harris’s own “We’re not going back” slogan from her failed 2024 bid.
The criticisms echo long-standing concerns about Harris’s performance as vice president, particularly among moderates and independents.
From her stumbling 2019 campaign rollout to her limited visibility in the administration, Harris has often struggled to define herself as a capable national leader.
Conservative critics have long argued that Democrats elevated Harris not on the basis of merit but identity politics — a calculation that has, in their view, backfired spectacularly.
Not all former Biden staffers joined in the criticism, however. One said, “We all know that the Biden folks treated her and her team like sh*t. We never thought she would actually say anything. The staffers across a range of ages and positions that I’m talking to are proud of her.”
Still, the ferocity of the backlash from Biden world underscores the deep fractures within the Democratic Party as it looks ahead to the post-Biden era.
While Harris portrays herself as a vice president undermined by her own team, many of her former colleagues counter that her difficulties were self-inflicted.
Her memoir, 107 Days, will be released September 23.
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