{"id":111803,"date":"2025-09-10T21:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=111803"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:16:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:16:59","slug":"kamala-harris-slams-biden-us-presidential-re-election-bid-as-recklessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2025\/111803\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris slams Biden US presidential re-election bid as &#8216;recklessness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Washington(National times)-  Former US vice president Kamala Harris said it was \u201crecklessness\u201d to let Joe Biden run for a second term as president, in an excerpt released on Wednesday from her upcoming memoir. Harris \u2014 who replaced Biden as the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate but lost to Donald Trump \u2014 admitted that the then-81-year-old got \u201ctired\u201d and was prone to stumbles that showed his age. She also lashed out at White House staff, whom she accused of failing to support her \u2014 and sometimes actively hindering her \u2014 while she was Biden\u2019s deputy. \u201c\u2018It\u2019s Joe and Jill\u2019s decision.\u2019 We all said that, like a mantra, as if we\u2019d all been hypnotised. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,\u201d Harris said in the first extract from \u201c107 Days\u201d, published by The Atlantic magazine. \u201cThe stakes were simply too high. This wasn\u2019t a choice that should have been left to an individual\u2019s ego, an individual\u2019s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.\u201d Biden stunned the world by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dunyanews.tv\/en\/World\/825634-Joe-Biden,-81,-pulls-out-of-presidential-race,-will-serve-out-term\"><strong>dropping out of the race in July 2024<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0after a disastrous debate with Trump, sparking questions about his age and mental acuity. Harris denied that there had been any conspiracy to hide Biden\u2019s condition but said it was clear there were issues with his age. \u201cOn his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgement, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump on his best,\u201d she wrote. \u201cBut at 81, Joe got tired. That\u2019s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles.\u201d Harris also lashed out at White House staff, whom she said failed to support her when she was vice president, saying that Biden\u2019s team did not want her to outshine her boss. \u201cWhen the stories were unfair or inaccurate, the president\u2019s inner circle seemed fine with it. Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more,\u201d Harris wrote. She added that she had \u201cshouldered the blame\u201d for Biden\u2019s border policy, which Trump capitalised on in the election. Harris lost comprehensively to Republican Trump after the shortest presidential campaign in modern US history, lasting just over three months \u2014 the 107 days in the title of her memoir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington(National times)- Former US vice president Kamala Harris said it was \u201crecklessness\u201d to let Joe Biden run for a second term as president, in an excerpt released on Wednesday from her upcoming memoir. 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