In an unintentionally entertaining passage of her forthcoming book, former Vice President and failed 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris went on the attack against former President Joe Biden, declaring that it was his recklessness and selfishness that threw the election up in the air and meant Trump won. She also claimed to be more popular than Biden, an assertion so absurd that it provoked laughter on Fox News.
For reference, the laughter and infighting was sparked by an excerpt from former VP Kamala’s forthcoming book, called 107 Days, being published in The Atlantic on Wednesday, September 10. In it, the former VP includes an account of how she ended up as the nominee, and fumes in it that former President Biden’s “ego” and “ambition” lost her the race.
Complaining about what happened and why former President Biden was allowed to continue running despite being obviously far too old and out of it to make a particularly compelling candidate, former VP Kamala fumed, “‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized.”
Additionally, the former VP complained that Biden was reckless in running despite his age, something that shows his problematic “ego.” She wrote, “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.”
Harris also tried to downplay allegations that she was the one who should have said something about Biden being obviously incapable of running, saying, “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. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”
That wasn’t all. In yet another snippy part of the book showing her capacity for infighting, the former vice president wrote, referencing Biden’s terrible debate performance and the “exhaustion” that sparked it, “I don’t believe it was incapacity. If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country.”
Fox News host Lawrence Jones ridiculed that statement during his network’s coverage of the exerpts, writing, “That statement is a disqualifier from ever running for office again. It’s bold-faced lie. Everybody knows the president’s infirmities were a big problem and she saw it every single day. She had a weekly lunch with him. And to still double-down after voters rejected them, and even her party disapproval of them, shows a lot.”
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Also ridiculed by Jones and Brian Kilmeade was an excerpt in which Kamala wrote that she was “more popular” than Biden, saying, “When polls indicated that I was getting more popular, the people around him didn’t like the contrast that was emerging. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital.”
Chiming in about that absurd passage, Kilmeade said, “Also, she goes on to say the big problem was she was getting popular. I mean, this is unbelievable. Woe is me.” Interjecting with a loud laugh, Jones said, “HA!” Kilmeade then continued, mocking Harris’s claim by saying, “’I was getting more popular and people around him didn’t like it.’”
FNC’s Ainsley Earhardt chimed in as well, saying, “She never would have been vice president unless Joe Biden picked her. So she should be loyal to him, it should be his decision if he’s going to run again, or his staff should have approached him. But she should always be loyal to him and not consider that, in retrospect, recklessness on her part.”
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