107 days Like the duration of his flash campaign led after Joe Biden’s surprise retirement of US presidential elections. In his book published on Tuesday, September 23, Kamala Harris remembers his entrance to a disaster in the ring against Donald Trump on July 21.
At the point of devouring pancakes with his little nieces in front of a kitchen program, according to the words reported by the Daily Los Angeles Times, the former vice president receives a call from the president and outgoing candidate for re -election. “I decided to retire,” said Joe Biden in a hoarse voice. “I’m going to announce it in a few minutes.” “Actually?” Then think of his heart. “Give me a little time. Everyone is about to change. I’m here to jog.”
If she describes her surprise, the former senator believes with retrospective in her book that she was then “the best candidate to win”, “the most qualified and the best prepared.” While I wonder: “During all these months of growing panic, should I have to tell Joe to consider not presenting himself?” “Maybe” aware as it is cleaned from such a decision.
Joe Biden’s “unconscious” candidacy
“Of all the members of the White House, it was very badly located to discuss in favor of the withdrawal,” the Democrat judges. “I knew that it would seem incredibly opportunistic to ask him not to appear. He would have seen him as an unhappy ambition, perhaps as a betrayal,” she says. The position of the vice president is often considered in the United States as a natural trampoline towards the presidency.
If she assures that the 82 -year -old Democrat today has always been able to exercise her functions, she writes that he “tired”, which made him subject to errors and falls.
“Joe Biden was an intelligent man, endowed with a long experience and a deep conviction, capable of completely assuming his presidential functions. In his worst days, he was more educated, more capable of discernment and much more compassionate than Donald Trump in his best days,” he says in his work, including the American magazine he published Atlantine.
For Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s “fiasco of the debate” against Donald Trump, who sounded the death of death for his candidacy was partly due to excess of work. “I don’t think it’s surprising (…) just after two consecutive trips to Europe and a west coast flight for a collection of funds in Hollywood,” he explains. Before adding: “I don’t think it’s inability. If I had believed there, I would have said it. As loyal as I am towards President Biden, I am even more towards my country.”
The “unconsciousness” of such a candidacy is, according to her, on the side of the entourage near Joe Biden. “They should have realized that any campaign was too step.” But, “it seemed that the more the situation worse, the more they pushed it,” he denounces.
Kamala Harris resolves his accounts with the entourage of the former president
This book is an opportunity for the former Attorney General of California to solve his accounts with the entourage of the former president. According to her, Joe Biden’s relatives never trusted her, they even denigrated her.
“It was almost impossible to get (the White House) says something positive about my work or that defends me,” deplores.
“Worse, I often learned that President’s staff fed the negative stories that circulated about me. One of the rumors that persisted was that my office was” chaotic “and that the rotation rate of the staff was abnormally high during my first year …”, Californian denounces.
Kamala Harris states that the increase in her popularity in surveys only won the situation with the Joe Biden team. “His reasoning was a zero sum game: if he shines, he weakens. None of them understood that if he was successful, he would also succeed,” he wrote. “My success was important for him (…) His team did not understand.”
If the first vice president of the United States Marta her loyalty to Joe Biden, “the most underestimated man in Washington,” is not without criticizing him. She writes that her feelings for the president “were based on heat and loyalty”, but that they had become “more complex over time.”
According to merits, she reproaches it, for example, her lack of struggle in certain main files, such as abortion that has become her “campaign compass.” “Joe has fought to talk about reproductive rights in a way that lives in the seriousness of the moment,” he said while defending his joint evaluation in the White House in his book. In fact, it is mainly in the way that sixties creaks so many teeth.
Kamala Harris deplora, for example, the small place that Joe Biden gave him when he was announced to the Americans on July 24, 2024. “It was not up to nine minutes to mention my presence in the eleven minutes of his speech,” he says. The unhappy Democratic candidate also has the strange call of the president in his throat a few moments before his debate in September against Donald Trump, when he had resumed the torch. Joe Biden, irritated, accused him of criticizing him with “influential personalities” in Philadelphia.
“I had to have clear ideas. I had to be completely focused on the debate,” he recalls. “I just didn’t understand why I was calling me at that time to bring everything back to him.”
“Joe embarked on a diatribe on his own performances during the previous debates:” I hit him again; I didn’t feel good during the last debate. “He insisted that he hadn’t really cost him the electorate. I barely listened to him,” he said he was “angry and disappointed” by this call.
“If there is a political strategy here, it’s bad”
In his book, Kamala Harris also expresses his doubts about the choice of his formula partner. The former United States Secretary for Transportation Pete Buttigieg was held at the top of his list. But for the Democratic candidate, despite “the ideal partner” whom he represented in his eyes “,” the risk was too great “because he was not” a heterosexual white man. “We already asked the United States a lot: accept a woman, a black woman, a black woman married to a Jewish man,” he continues. Pete Buttigieg described a few days ago.
The governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, was also among the finalists. It was his ambition that was unfavorable for him against the governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz. Kamala Harris “was constantly afraid that he could not be satisfied with a role of number two and does not damage (his) association” while representing a man “raised, refined and friendly.”
“It is simply ridiculous to suggest that Governor Shapiro focused on more than the defeat of Donald Trump and the protection of Pennsylvania against the chaos that we are currently experiencing,” said one of his political spokesmen.
107 days He has created a stir within the Democratic party, which is going through a serious crisis of trust with the Americans.
“If there is a political strategy here, it is bad. There are many complaints and reproaches that really do not serve a political agenda,” said David Axelrod, a main advisor of former President Barack Obama, in political columns.
When Pete Giangreco, experienced Democratic consultant based in the west environment underlines the “intentional” character of such work.
“Does she solve her accounts because she does not represent herself, or is it her catharsis to reject another person’s guilt to say: ‘Give me another opportunity.'” The consultant asked.
The former Democratic candidate who has been very discreet since his dry defeat against Donald Trump on November 5 does not hide his intention to continue working for the United States. Without commenting on his intentions for the next presidential elections in 2028, Kamala Harris says he no longer wants to stay “in Washington.” “I will be with citizens, in cities and communities, where I can listen to their ideas on how to rebuild trust, empathy and a government worthy of the ideals of this country,” he guaranteed.
Source: BFM TV
