Kamala Harris Backstabbed By Biden World: ‘Pity Party’

Biden world is firing back after new passages of Kamala Harris’s forthcoming memoir suggest Democrats were “reckless” to leave their party’s nomination to the whims of Joe Biden.

The ex-vice president is on a mission to repair her public image in the wake of her loss to President Donald Trump. She announced earlier this summer that she will not seek the governor’s office in California next year, saying her future lies “outside elected office” for the time being.

However, that hasn’t stopped Harris from attempting to explain away her lack of electoral success as anything other than a poorly run campaign.

“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,” Harris wrote in her book excerpt in the Atlantic. “It should have been more than a personal decision.”

Some former White House colleagues, suspicious about Harris’s intent to run again, described the release of book snippets as a self-serving project meant to gently throw her former boss under the bus.

“No one wants to hear your pity party,” said one former staffer who spoke anonymously to trash the person leading their party just a year ago, Politico reported.

Despite stumping mightily for Biden last year, Harris writes in the book that she saw the then-81-year-old had “grown tired” over the course of the campaign. His decline came as Harris made head-scratching statements about the president, as when she declared him “very much alive” in an interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt.

Harris’s newfound candor is a split from the deference she paid to Biden immediately after the campaign. Other staffers suggested her differences with Biden should have been settled long ago, not released at a time when the Democratic Party is grappling with its search for a new direction out of the political wilderness.

“I hate that we’re beating up on a man struggling with cancer, and [who] did genuinely serve our country pretty damn well, even if he made a critical error at the end,” one former Biden and Harris campaign aide said. “But maybe what is even more painful is that we needed more of this distinction and acknowledgement during the campaign. … I’m most offended by this being too little, too late.”

Another former Biden aide asked, “Why didn’t she do this during the campaign?” when her “main imperative would’ve been to distance herself because there was an election going on.”

A Harris source said the excerpts about Biden were not part of a broader strategy in the memoir to attack him.

“She set out to be candid in this book, whether that’s her genuine struggles with how to balance her loyal relationship with President Biden with tough political realities, or reflecting on her own missteps on the campaign trail, which I know she also writes about,” the person said. “She is being honest about her own experience.”