Former Vice President Kamala Harris has ignited a firestorm among Democrats after releasing a memoir excerpt that questions Joe Biden’s cognitive fitness during his re-election bid.
Biden aides are hitting back in a rare public rupture between the former president and his vice president.
“No one wants to hear your pity party,” one former Biden White House official said, as allies of the former president rallied to defend him.
Harris phoned Biden on Tuesday to give him a warning about the excerpt from her upcoming memoir 107 Days, according to two people familiar with the call who spoke to Politico.
However, the olive branch did little to cool tempers inside Biden’s orbit.
In the excerpt, published in The Atlantic, Harris described watching Biden struggle behind the scenes, saying the