In her new book about her failed 2024 campaign, former Vice President Kamala Harris blasts former President Joe Biden, claiming his re-election bid was driven by ego and that his team actively sought to undermine her in the White House.

The Atlantic on Wednesday published portions of Harris’s new memoir, “107 Days,” in which she attacks Biden and his team as she discusses her campaign against Donald Trump. 

According to Harris, whenever the prospect of Biden running again was raised, the standard response inside the White House was, “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,” she wrote. “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 said that she couldn’t push Biden to step aside earlier, insisting it would have been seen as a “self-serving” move.

“And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out. I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win,” she wrote. 

Harris denied that there was “some big conspiracy” to hide Biden’s “infirmity,” and claimed that he was “able to discharge the duties of president.” 

“I don’t believe it was incapacity. If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country,” she said. 

In the excerpts, Harris also claimed Biden’s team repeatedly threw her under the bus for political purposes. She said that when she came under fire from conservative media, “the White House rarely pushed back with my actual résumé.”

“They had a huge comms team; they had Karine Jean-Pierre briefing in the pressroom every day. But getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible,” she wrote. “Worse, I often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me.”

She said it seemed like Biden’s team “seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more.” Harris was particularly upset that Biden didn’t do more to defend her after he designated her border czar, a title she claimed was mischaracterized by conservative media. 

Harris argued that elevating her profile could have improved Biden’s image with voters.

“Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital,” she wrote. 

Harris’s book is set to be released on September 23.