Kamala Harris on Biden's re-election bid: ‘It was recklessness’

"Recklessness." That's how Kamala Harris defines what Joe Biden's decision to run for re-election last year was. The former vice president explained that, in addition, she was in a difficult situation when she was the only one in the White House advocating for Biden's resignation as a candidate.

"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,'" Harris wrote in an excerpt from her book “107 Days,” published by The Atlantic.

In that sense, Harris assured that he now questions whether it was the best decision to let Biden move forward in his bid for re-election. Likewise, he stressed that in her opinion it was a decision that went beyond a "personal ambition."

"'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," the Democrat said.