The first excerpt from former Vice President Kamala Harris’ memoir of her 2024 presidential campaign—107 Days—is out.
And, in it, she admits what we all knew: Democrats should have never allowed Joe Biden to run for a second term. Writes Harris of the decision-making process—or lack thereof:
“It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.” We all said 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 simply too high.
Whoa boy.
Look, Harris is right. As I wrote—repeatedly—even before Biden’s disastrous debate last June, Democrats were taking a massive risk by nominating an 81-year-old man who a majority of the public had told pollsters was too old to run for a second term.
That risk was more magnified