Overview

• In the first excerpt of 107 Days, Kamala Harris writes that leaving the reelection choice to Joe and Jill Biden was “recklessness” and not a decision that should hinge on personal ego or ambition.
• Harris says she was poorly positioned to urge Biden to step aside because it would have looked like “naked ambition” or disloyalty.
• She defends Biden’s capacity for the job yet says that at 81 he “got tired,” linking his debate collapse to back-to-back Europe trips and a West Coast flight.
• Harris alleges the White House communications team rarely defended her and sometimes fed negative narratives, citing the “border czar” label and backlash after her Selma cease-fire speech.
• The Atlantic published the excerpt on Sept. 10, and Simon & Schuster plans to release the full memoir on Sept. 23.