Kamala Harris Opens Up About Her Role In Biden's Decision To Run In 2024

The former vice president also addressed concerns about the former president's age in a new excerpt in The Atlantic from her upcoming book.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris concedes she made a grave mistake by holding back from advising her former boss, Joe Biden, against pursuing reelection in 2024, declaring that: “In retrospect, I think it was recklessness.”

In an excerpt from her upcoming book “107 Days” published Wednesday in The Atlantic, Harris says that “of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out.”

“I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run,” she writes.

But Harris acknowledged that she was wrong to rest such an important call on just Biden and his wife, Jill.

“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” she writes. “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.”