Harris admits silence on Biden's 2024 re-election bid was 'recklessness'

Former Vice President Kamala Harris called former President Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election reckless in her new book, "107 Days."

Deirdre Heavey is a politics writer for Fox News Digital. 

"'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. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision," Harris said in the excerpt released by The Atlantic on Wednesday morning. 

While Harris publicly defended Biden throughout his presidency, in the first excerpt of Harris' highly anticipated account of the shortest presidential campaign in history, the former vice president described how she was often scapegoated by the Biden administration. And for the first time, she admitted that, "perhaps," she should have told Biden to "consider not running."