Former Vice President Kamala Harris revealed in her book, "107 Days," what then-President Joe Biden said when he called right before her debate with now-President Donald Trump. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET; Mandel Ngan - Pool/Getty Images)
"His brother had told him that those guys were not going to support me because I’d been saying bad things about him. He wasn’t inclined to believe it, he claimed, but he thought I should know in case my team had been encouraging me to put daylight between the two of us," Harris wrote in the book, according to an excerpt of the book in The Guardian.
Biden then went on to talk about his past debate performances, leaving Harris confused, "angry and disappointed," according to The Guardian. She was upset that her boss had called before a critical moment in her political career and made "it all about himself." Harris added that Biden was "distracting me with worry about hostile power-brokers in the biggest city of the most important state."
Then-first gentleman Doug Emhoff apparently noticed his wife was in distress and advised her to "let it go" before facing off against Trump.
Outgoing President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris stand together at the White House ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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"'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 wrote.
Harris also revealed in her book that then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was her "first choice" as running mate, not Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. However, she said it was "too big of a risk" because the campaign was "already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man."
Fox News Digital's Deirdre Heavey and Greg Norman contributed to this report.
Rachel Wolf is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital and FOX Business.
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