Former Vice President Kamala Harris took a swipe at her onetime boss, Joe Biden, calling his 2021 decision to exclude Elon Musk from a White House electric vehicle event a “big mistake” — comments that came as the 82-year-old former president undergoes radiation therapy for prostate cancer.

Harris, who appeared Tuesday at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in Washington, D.C., said she believed the snub — which was widely seen as a political favor to organized labor — was mishandled and had lasting repercussions.

“I write in the book that I thought it was a big mistake to not invite Elon Musk when we did a big EV event,” Harris told Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell. 6

“I mean, here he is, the major American manufacturer of extraordinary innovation in this space,” Harr

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