"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. It's Joe and Jill's decision. We all"
"let the other guy win. 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. 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"
Kamala Harris places responsibility on Joe and Jill Biden's egos for failing to concede that staying in the race risked reelection loss. Harris says the decision should not have been left to individual ambition and labels the choice reckless given the stakes. Harris describes being in a poor position to advise against Biden running because such counsel would appear self-serving and disloyal. Harris also reports that White House staff amplified negative narratives about her through zero-sum thinking, treating her success as diminishing the president, which she says undermined a unified approach.
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