Reference News Network September 11 report, according to AFP on September 10, U.S. former Vice President Kamala Harris is "taking stock" with former U.S. President Joe Biden and his team in her new book to be published in September. This former Democratic presidential candidate openly pointed out that letting the elderly President Biden seek re-election was a "reckless move."

"'It's up to Joe and Jill (Biden and his wife).' We repeated this phrase like a mantra, as if all of us were hypnotized. Was this appropriate or reckless? Looking back now, I think it was a reckless move," wrote the former vice president. On the 10th, The Atlantic magazine published an excerpt from the book.

She added: "The risk was too great. This decision could not be based solely on personal arrogance and ambition."

Harris took over as the presidential candidate in July last year after Biden suddenly withdrew from the campaign, and she believed she was "the least suitable person to advocate for (Biden) stepping down."

She admitted: "I knew asking him not to run would seem extremely opportunistic. He would see it as naked ambition, even a despicable betrayal."

Although she assured that the 82-year-old Democrat could still fulfill his duties, she also wrote that he was "exhausted," which made him prone to slips of the tongue and falling down.

The report said that in several passages disclosed by The Atlantic magazine, this first female U.S. vice president also launched a fierce attack on the former president's team.

"It was almost impossible for the White House to give a positive evaluation of my work or defend me," she said, "I often heard that the president's team was inciting negative rumors about me."

Previously, this former Democratic candidate had remained low-key. Her book "107 Days" will be released in the United States on September 23, followed by a tour of promotional activities. (Translated by Lin Xiaoxuan)

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