Fifty-one days after unexpectedly being elevated to the top of the 2024 presidential ticket, former Vice President Kamala Harris was in a Philadelphia hotel room ahead of her only debate with Donald Trump when the phone rang.

It was Joe Biden.

She was expecting a pre-debate pep talk, but Biden instead called to let Harris know his brother had been talking to “a group of real power brokers in Philly” that didn’t plan to support her. Their lack of support stemmed from Harris “saying bad things” about Biden, though the former president said he didn’t believe them.

“I just couldn’t understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself,” Harris writes in her new book, “107 Days,” released Tuesday. “Distracting me with worry about hostile powerbrokers in the biggest city o

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