Kamala Harris Is Still In Complete Denial

Former Vice President Kamala Harris wrote in her new book that there was no “conspiracy” to hide former President Joe Biden’s age, insisting that the now 82-year-old man was still sharp in his final days in the White House.

Harris is publishing a book, “107 Days,” in September detailing her short run for president in 2024. The vice president addressed Biden’s decision to drop out of the race in an excerpt published Wednesday in The Atlantic, calling it “recklessness” for everyone to leave the decision up to the former president and first lady. Harris maintained in her book that Biden’s debate performance was a combination of age and travel. (RELATED: Kamala Comes Out Swinging At Team Biden In New Book)

“Many people want to spin up a narrative of some big conspiracy at the White House to hide Joe Biden’s infirmity. Here is the truth as I lived it. Joe Biden was a smart guy with long experience and deep conviction, able to discharge the duties of president,” Harris writes.

“On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump on his best. But at 81, Joe got tired. That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles. I don’t think it’s any surprise that the debate debacle happened right after two back-to-back trips to Europe and a flight to the West Coast for a Hollywood fundraiser. I don’t believe it was incapacity. If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country,” the former vice president added.

Leading up to Biden’s debate against now-President Donald Trump, the former president retreated to Camp David for a week in June 2024 to train. The debate took place that month after Trump dared the former president to debate “anywhere, any time, anyplace.” The former president’s team then proposed two dates, with a list of conditions.

Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hasn’t shown up for a debate.

Now he’s acting like he wants to debate me again.

Well, make my day, pal. pic.twitter.com/AkPmvs2q4u

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 15, 2024

Minutes into that June debate, Biden began to stumble, looking pale and committing gaffes. Amid the performance, Democrats began to scramble for a new candidate. White House officials told reporters that Biden had a “cold” and was still jet lagged from overseas travel he had completed at least a week earlier.

Following the 2024 election, CNN’s Jake Tapper and Axios’ Alex Thompson published a book, based on 200 interviews mostly with Democratic insiders, which detailed the former president’s decline and how staffers worked to conceal it from the American public. (RELATED: ‘Could Not Speak’ — Biden Bombed Closed-Door, Scripted Town Hall, New Book Alleges)

In the weeks following the debate, Democrat cries for Biden to drop out of the race intensified.

Harris writes that within the White House, everyone surrounding the president and the first lady left the decision to them.

“During all those months of growing panic, should I have told Joe to consider not running? Perhaps. But the American people had chosen him before in the same matchup. Maybe he was right to believe that they would do so again,” the former vice president writes.

“He was, by some measures, the most consistently underestimated man in Washington. He’d been right about his tactics for pushing his agenda through a resistant Congress. It was just possible he was right about this, too,” she continues.

“And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out. I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win,” the excerpt reads.

“‘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. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision,” Harris concludes.