Former Vice President Kamala Harris is now reportedly attempting to explain both President Biden’s failed reelection bid and her own truncated campaign in a forthcoming memoir, 107 Days.
In excerpts published by The Atlantic, Harris concedes what many Americans had long suspected: Biden, at 81, was showing his age.
“But at 81, Joe got tired,” Harris wrote. “That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles.”
While Harris sought to frame Biden’s fatigue as the natural wear of public life, she also acknowledged what critics of the Democratic ticket had raised for years—that his age and stamina were not up to the demands of a campaign, let alone the presidency.
Biden’s decision to seek a second term in 2024 was controversial from the start, drawing widespread skepticism about his mental fitness and capacity to lead.
Those doubts crystallized during the first debate against President Trump in Atlanta, when Biden faltered visibly. “As soon as he walked onto the debate stage in Atlanta, I could see he wasn’t right,” Harris recalled.
Within days, Biden exited the race, and Harris launched her own presidential campaign on the very same day.
Harris insisted in her memoir that Biden remained capable while in office. “I don’t believe it was incapacity,” she wrote. “If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country.” Yet she also admitted his inner circle should have recognized that “any campaign was a bridge too far.” Allowing him to proceed, she suggested, may have amounted to “recklessness.”
The vice president portrayed herself as caught in a political bind, unable to tell Biden directly that he should not run. “I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run,” she wrote. “He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”
Her effort to inherit the Democratic mantle fared no better. Harris ultimately lost to Trump after just 107 days on the campaign trail, a defeat that she now describes as the “shortest presidential campaign in modern history.”
Despite her candid admission of Biden’s frailty, Harris still lavishes praise on her former running mate, insisting, “On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump at his best.” That defense, however, is belied by her own recognition that his debate stumbles and visible fatigue damaged the Democratic Party at a pivotal moment.
Harris’s memoir, slated for release next week, is being billed as a “candid, personal account” of both Biden’s decline and her own failed campaign.
She has announced a 15-city international tour, including stops in the United Kingdom and Canada, to promote the book.
The revelations may offer Harris a chance to recast her role in Biden’s downfall. But for critics, her admissions confirm what voters already decided in 2024: that the Democratic Party, in propping up an aging president and rallying behind his vice president, failed to offer the country a credible alternative to Trump.
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