Biden World Lashes Out On Kamala After Tell All Book Excerpt

Former President Joe Biden’s officials are lashing out on former Vice President Kamala Harris after she released an excerpt from her new book blaming the White House for holding her back, according to a Thursday Axios report.

Harris is publishing a new book, “107 Days,” in September about her short time on the presidential campaign trail. The former vice president released an excerpt of the book in The Atlantic on Thursday, in which she blamed the Biden White House for negative narratives around her tenure and failing to properly highlight her work.

Biden White House officials reacted to the excerpt in conversations with Axios, arguing that Harris has no one to blame but herself.

“Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job,” one former Biden White House official told Axios. “She had basically zero substantive role in any of the administration’s key work streams, and instead would just dive bomb in for stilted photo ops that exposed how out of depth she was.”

In the excerpt, Harris writes that despite the Biden White House having a big press team and former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre briefing with regularity, it was “almost impossible” to get them to defend her work.

Harris lays out several incidents where she found out the Biden White House team was letting negative narratives fester and “adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me.”

The former vice president claims that the Biden White House sometimes pushed the narrative that she had a toxic work environment in her office and failed to highlight her work as “border czar.”

“On the border stuff in particular I’d also say, if she had spent a fraction of the time and energy doing the work that she did on complaining, about how she was perceived, she would have been perceived a whole lot better,” one former Biden aide told Axios.

Other Biden White House aides blamed the former vice president’s team for failing to take help coming from the former president’s offices.

“There were others on the Biden team, though, who really tried to help her thrive as VP. But she and her team did not seize that support and make the most of it. It is all a tragedy,” the aide told Axios.

US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris hug after he delivered his farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office of the White House on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mandel Ngan – Pool/Getty Images)

“I thought she did a good job as [vice president] and I feel badly that she found the experience negative,” former Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain told the outlet.

Harris also maintained that Biden was still sharp when he left office, but added that it was “recklessness” to allow the former 81-year-old president and the first lady to make the decision on his campaign alone. (RELATED: ‘Could Not Speak’ — Biden Bombed Closed-Door, Scripted Town Hall, New Book Alleges)

“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,” the former vice president wrote.

One aide voiced support for Harris to Axios, claiming that the Biden White House team treated the former vice president poorly.

“We all know that the Biden folks treated her and her team like sh*t. We never thought she would actually say anything,” one former Biden aide told Axios. “The staffers across a range of ages and positions that I’m talking to are proud of her.”