00:00Kamala slams Biden as ball and chain dragging her career.
00:04Former Vice President Kamala Harris sharply criticizes former President Joe Biden and his aides in her new book, 107 Days.
00:12A top presidential advisor gave Kamala Harris some sobering news, just as she launched her ill-fated campaign for president last year after her boss dropped out of the race.
00:22People hate Joe Biden.
00:23I spent the first third of my remarks effusively praising him before I launched into my own campaign speech.
00:30Harris wrote.
00:31However, former President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, who was by then working on Harris's campaign, told her point blank, people hate Joe Biden.
00:42In CNN journalist Jake Tapper's book Original Sin, Plouffe said Harris's rushed push for president was a expletive nightmare.
00:49Added Plouffe, it's all Biden.
00:51He totally expletive us.
00:54By the time Biden announced he was stepping aside, his approval rating had plummeted to just 41%.
00:59Harris called Biden's rating a ball and chain dragging on my campaign.
01:04Harris said it was recklessness to let Biden make a re-election decision on his own.
01:09The stakes were simply too high, she wrote.
01:11She revealed concerns about many staffers Biden left behind and complained the campaign lacked direction and tried to fix the problem by throwing money at it.
01:20However, Biden's top aides bit back with a brutal counterattack on the failed candidate.
01:24One ex-White House official told Axios that Harris was simply not good at the job.
01:30Harris has argued that the truncated timeline of her 2024 campaign made success impossible.
01:36One official said there were several officials who really tried to help her thrive, but she and her team did not seize that support and make the most of it.
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