Kamala Harris recounted an instance where Jill Biden confronted her husband regarding their commitment to Biden’s unsuccessful 2024 presidential campaign, just a few weeks before he withdrew from the race.
The former vice president, 60, made the bombshell assertion in her political memoir, 107 Days, which will hit the shelves on Tuesday.
She described the chilly encounter that Doug Emhoff, 60, had with the First Lady during a Fourth of July celebration at the White House, mere weeks before Biden, 82, officially exited the election on July 21 of the previous year.
Jill, 70, had pulled Emhoff aside to the White House’s Blue Room to speak to him in private.
She seemed ‘tense, even angry,’ Harris wrote. ‘What’s going on?’ Jill allegedly asked. ‘Are you supporting us?’
Surprised by the suggestion that he and Harris had been anything other than loyal to the Bidens, Emhoff quickly responded, ‘Of course we are supporting you,’ as detailed in the memoir.
‘Okay. That’s really important. We need to know that,’ Jill snapped back.
After returning from the uncomfortable interaction, Harris observed that her husband appeared disturbed. He later expressed to her his irritation over Jill’s skepticism towards their loyalty.
Kamala Harris (right) said her husband, Doug Emhoff (left), was harshly questioned by Jill Biden
Jill (pictured) allegedly pulled Emhoff to the side and asked if he and Harris supported Biden just weeks before he dropped out of the race
At that juncture, concerns had grown among the left about Biden’s cognitive abilities, especially after his disastrous debate with Donald Trump on June 27.
Harris noted that she never doubted Biden’s qualifications, but in his old age, ‘Joe got tired,’ she wrote.
Harris remarked that throughout her tenure alongside Biden, she had never witnessed anything akin to the level of confusion, incoherence, and inability that was displayed during the debate.
But Harris said she never tried to interfere or put a stop to Biden’s ‘reckless’ re-election campaign.
Harris revealed that going into the 2024 campaign, she automatically followed the ‘mantra’ set by the White House, that Biden would decide with his family if he wanted to run again.
‘Was it grace, or was it recklessness?’ Harris asked. ‘In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high.’
Jill allegedly issued Emhoff a warning after Biden officially dropped out of the race and Harris was instantly pushed to the forefront as the Democratic candidate.
Harris explained that when she launched into her rushed campaign – at day 106 – Jill returned a call from Emhoff, whom he tried to reach to the day before.
Joe Biden (pictured) dropped out of the 2024 election with just 107 days to go
Jill (right) allegedly issued Emhoff a warning after Biden (left) officially dropped out of the race and Harris was instantly pushed to the forefront as the Democratic candidate
‘Be careful what you wish for. You’re about to see how horrible the world is,’ she bluntly cautioned him, Harris wrote.
Harris attributed Jill’s hostility toward her to a years-old grudge from when Harris ran against Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
‘I had always admired Jill for her fierce loyalty to her family and also her dedication to teaching,’ the former vice president said.
‘But I suspect Jill hadn’t quite forgiven me for the 2019 primary debate, when I’d gone hard at Joe over his early opposition to busing.
‘Although I had regular lunches with Joe, there wasn’t a lot of family socializing.’
Harris was referring to a July 2019 debate, during which an unflattering 1981 interview of Biden opposing efforts to desegregate schools came up.
Harris attributed Jill’s hostility toward her to a years-old grudge from when Harris ran against Biden in the 2020 presidential election (pictured from left to right: Jill, Biden, Harris and Emhoff)
Former vice president Harris (pictured) made the bombshell assertion in her political memoir, 107 Days, which will hit the shelves on Tuesday
A California senator at the time, Harris grilled Biden for his position, which he tried clarifying by saying he ‘did not oppose to busing in America,’ only to busing ordered by the Department of Education.
This strained relationship between the Bidens and Harris seemingly appeared on August 3 when Harris said she was arranging for interviews to select who would run as her vice president.
She called upon Bill and Hillary Clinton for advice – and she never mentioned consulting with the Bidens.
In the book’s acknowledgement section, Harris once again hinted at tension between her and Jill – thanking Biden for his support, but leaving out his wife’s name.
