Tensions between former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris resurfaced this week after excerpts from Harris’ forthcoming memoir sparked sharp responses from members of Biden’s inner circle, as reported by The Western Journal.
The book, 107 Days, references Harris’ short-lived 2024 presidential campaign and her reflections on her time in the Biden administration.
Excerpts published Wednesday by The Atlantic portray Biden’s White House as dismissive of Harris, with her writing that she was often “castigated” and describing the administration’s thinking as “zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed.”
Harris suggested she was sidelined and that her time in the role was neither instructive nor supportive.
The gloves are off. Kamala Harris rips Biden and his team in her new book.
Blames everyone but herself for her issues. pic.twitter.com/fBXqY1RpIm
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 10, 2025
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By Thursday, Biden’s former aides were firing back in a report published by Axios.
One official said Harris was “simply not good at the job,” adding that she had “basically zero substantive role in any of the administration’s key work streams” and instead was limited to “stilted photo ops that exposed how out of depth she was.”
The criticism extended to Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign, which collapsed after just 107 days. “[Biden is] not the reason she struggled in office or tanked her 2019 campaign,” the former official said.
“Or lost the 2024 campaign, for that matter. The independent variable there is the vice president, not Biden or his aides.”
Another ex-Biden aide dismissed Harris’ claim that she was pressured into supporting Biden’s brief re-election bid, questioning her reluctance to speak out at the time.
“I’m not sure the very robust defense of not having the courage to speak up in the moment about Biden running is quite as persuasive as she thinks it is,” the aide said. “If this is her attempt at political absolution: Lots of luck in your senior year.”
The same aide also pointed to Harris’ highly publicized struggles with border policy.
“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.”
Another former Biden staffer challenged Harris’ characterization of being unsupported, claiming the administration offered her resources she failed to utilize.
“There were others on the Biden team, though, who really tried to help her thrive as VP,” the official said. “But she and her team did not seize that support and make the most of it. It is all a tragedy.”
Perhaps the most pointed remark came from a former aide who reworked Harris’ own campaign slogan when asked about her political future: “We’re not going back!”
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