(Washington) Kamala Harris settles his accounts with Joe Biden and the entourage of the latter in a book to be published in September, in which the ex-Democratic candidate asserts that letting the aging president represent himself was “unconsciousness”.
“” The decision belongs to Joe and Jill (Biden, his wife) “. We repeated this as a mantra, as if we had been hypnotized. Was it elegance or was it unconsciousness? By thinking about it, I think it was unconsciousness, ”writes the former vice-president in this work, including the magazine The Atlantic published extracts on Wednesday.
“The stake was too large. This choice could only be based on the ego, on the ambition of an individual, ”she adds.
The Democrat, who succeeded in disaster in Joe Biden as candidate for the White House at the end of July, judges however that she was “the most poorly placed to argue in favor of a withdrawal”.
“I knew that it would appear as incredibly opportunistic to ask him not to introduce himself. He would have seen him as an unanswered ambition, perhaps as a treacherous treason, “she says.
The position of vice-president is often considered, in the United States, as a natural springboard towards the presidency.
If she assures that the Democrat, 82 years old today, has always been able to exercise his functions, she nevertheless writes that he “tired”, which made him subject to blunders and falls.
The first woman vice-president of the United States, who publicly had always remained perfectly loyal to Joe Biden, also attacks the entourage of the former president violently in the few paragraphs revealed by the weekly.
“Sink”
“It was almost impossible to get that (the White House) tells something positive about my work or that it defends me,” she deplores.
“I have often learned that the president’s team attacked the negative rumors that arose around me,” said the Californian.
The former Senator and Procureur General of California deplores that Joe Biden, when he addressed the Americans on July 24 to explain his withdrawal from the race, spoke for “nine minutes” before mentioning it briefly.
Kamala Harris also reports that the White House “did not appreciate” a speech in which she launched the alert on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and whose text had however been validated upstream.
“I was reprimanded, it seems, for having pronounced it too well,” she reveals.
So far the former Democratic candidate had been very discreet, while his party is going through a serious crisis of confidence with Americans.
His work, 107 Days (107 days) published by Simon & Schuster editions, will appear on September 23 in the United States and will give rise to a promotion tour.
This duration is that of his campaign, launched in disaster after the withdrawal of Joe Biden on July 21, which ended with a defeat dry against Donald Trump on November 5.
The former Democratic president has largely disappeared from public life since leaving the White House. His services announced in May that he suffered from aggressive prostate cancer.
