Harris calls Biden’s 2024 bid “recklessness” in forthcoming memoir ‘107 Days’

Former Vice President Kamala Harris sharply criticises the decision to let President Joe Biden determine on his own whether to seek reelection in 2024, calling it “recklessness” in her forthcoming memoir, 107 Days.

Excerpts published this week recount internal tensions as Democrats wrestled with concerns about Biden’s age and political viability before he ended his campaign and endorsed Harris in July 2024.

“During all those months of growing panic, should I have told Joe to consider not running?” she wrote. “Perhaps.”

In the book, due out Sept. 23, 2025 from Simon & Schuster, Harris writes that the choice “should not have been left to an individual’s ego or ambition,” and reflects on whether she should have urged Biden not to run. The memoir traces the 107-day sprint from Biden’s withdrawal to Election Day, when Donald Trump defeated Harris.

“I don’t believe it was incapacity,” she added. “If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country.”

The memoir also details Harris’ struggles with Biden’s associates, whom she feels contributed to the “constant attention” on her vice presidency.

“And when the stories were unfair or inaccurate, the president’s inner circle seemed fine with it,” Harris wrote. “Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more.”

Harris also describes friction with Biden’s inner circle, alleging aides amplified negative narratives about her and failed to defend her amid attacks over her role on migration policy—criticism she says the White House communications team did little to counter.

“When Republicans mischaracterized my role as ‘border czar,’ no one in the White House comms team helped me to effectively push back and explain what I had really been tasked to do, nor to highlight any of the progress I had achieved,” Harris wrote.

Biden has not publicly commented on the claims. 107 Days is positioned by the publisher as a candid inside account of the campaign’s final stretch following Biden’s July 21, 2024 exit.