Then-Vice President Kamala Harris acted like a “courtroom prosecutor” in her insistence that Joe Biden immediately endorse her for the 2024 Democratic nomination after he abruptly ended his bid for a second term, former first lady Jill Biden writes in her forthcoming memoir.
In “View from the East Wing,” out June 2, Jill Biden recounts the conversation on July 21, 2024, when the 46th president told his second in command he would be the first commander in chief not to seek re-election since Lyndon Johnson in 1968.
“Oh my God, Joe. Are you sure?” Jill Biden recalls Harris saying before pushing for her boss’ backing, according to an excerpt reported by USA Today.
When Joe Biden suggested waiting until the next morning to make an endorsement statement, Harris insisted: “I want it sooner.”
After the president said he would call her back “when I figure this out,” the veep pressed: “Could you do it soon? Say, in 20 minutes?”
At that point, Jill Biden writes, she walked out of the room, apparently unable to bear any more.
Joe Biden, the oldest-ever president, endorsed Harris in a separate statement released about half an hour after announcing he was dropping out of the race, forestalling an unprecedented “mini-primary” ahead of the following month’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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