Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ close advisors drafted a “Red File” detailing a transition plan over a year in advance of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 election, Harris’ newly released book “107 Days” reveals.
Harris described how her brother-in-law, former Obama administration Associate Attorney General Tony West, prepared a plan for the first ” twenty-four to forty-eight hours” in the event that “something should happen” to Biden.
“With a president in his eighties, he suggested, it would be malpractice on my part to be unprepared if, God forbid, something should happen,” Harris wrote in her book. “He [West] had thought through the first twenty-five calls I would need to make to world leaders, the first twenty-five to political colleagues, when to make my first statement, and what the rules of transition are.”
The failed 2024 Democratic nominee went on to describe how, after Biden’s disastrous debate performance in late June 2024 — which eventually led to him dropping out of the race the following month, West had “pulled out the Red File and started adding to it.”
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA – MAY 29: U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris wave to members of the audience after speaking at a campaign rally at Girard College on May 29, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Biden and Harris are using today’s rally to launch a nationwide campaign to court black voters, a group that has traditionally come out in favor of Biden, but their support is projected lower than it was in 2020. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
In discussing the fateful June 27 debate in her book, Harris characterized President Donald Trump’s performance as “unburdened by the truth,” adding that Trump was “using his words like a weapon.”
“Biden, striving for accuracy, often stopped midsentence to correct himself, which left him sounding hesitant and garbled. I knew the important policy points he was struggling to convey, and I knew he knew them,” Harris wrote of the debate. “He is a master of this material, but that was not coming across at all.”
“We waited for the promised call back from Joe, anxious as the minutes passed. News was starting to leak,” Harris wrote describing July 21, 2024, the day of Biden’s withdrawal. “There was no postponing the announcement of his dropping out, Joe said. ‘But the statement endorsing you will go out a few minutes later.’”
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