Biden Supporters Take Aim At Kamala Harris Over Claims In New Book

Allies of Joe Biden are lashing out after Kamala Harris used excerpts from her upcoming memoir to accuse Democrats of being “reckless” for allowing Biden to claim the party’s 2024 nomination.

Harris — still trying to repair her image after losing to President Donald Trump — announced earlier this year that she wouldn’t run for California governor in 2026, insisting her future lies “outside elected office.” But her book makes clear she isn’t done pointing fingers.

Instead of admitting her own failures, Harris cast her 2024 defeat as the fault of party leaders. “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,” she wrote in The Atlantic.

Former staffers aren’t buying it. One dismissed the book as a “pity party.” Another said, “I hate that we’re beating up on a man struggling with cancer, and [who] did genuinely serve our country pretty damn well … but maybe what is even more painful is that we needed more of this distinction and acknowledgement during the campaign.”

Others pointed out Harris had every chance to distance herself when it mattered. “Why didn’t she do this during the campaign?” asked one Biden aide.

Her memoir also portrays Biden — then 81 — as having “grown tired” during the race, echoing her bizarre attempt on the campaign trail to reassure voters by declaring him “very much alive.”

Even Harris’s allies admitted the book risks looking like a political hit job. One source close to her claimed she was only being “candid,” but many Democrats say she should have kept her criticisms private instead of adding to the party’s current chaos.

Biden dropped out of the race after his humiliating debate performance against Trump in June 2024. He quickly endorsed Harris, short-circuiting any real primary fight and leaving Democrats stuck with her candidacy headed into the general election.

Now, Democratic strategist James Carville has bluntly warned Harris that the party wants nothing to do with her in 2028. “Anybody that had anything to do with 2024, the party wants to move on from that,” Carville said. “This goes to Walz, too. I wouldn’t run again.”

In other words: Democrats are desperate to move past the Biden-Harris disaster. Harris’s book, far from rehabilitating her image, only reminds voters — and her own party — why she lost.