Kamala Harris’s forthcoming memoir may ignite exactly the kind of Democratic civil war the party has been desperately trying to avoid since Joe Biden’s disastrous exit from the 2024 campaign. With 107 Days, Kamala isn’t just offering a personal account of failure; she’s openly indicting Biden, his inner circle, and by extension the party machine that enabled—and then quietly discarded him when he made it impossible to hide his cognitive decline.
According to Kamala(’s ghostwriter), Democrats were “reckless” in allowing Biden to run again in 2024. She dismisses the widely repeated refrain that the choice to run was “Joe and Jill’s decision,” as if it were some trance the party willingly lulled itself into. In her telling, Biden choosing to mount a campaign at age 81 wasn’t an act of grace or determination, but of ego—and everyone near him let it happen.
The Biden camp isn’t taking this lightly.
According to Axios, former aides “reacted with rage” at the excerpts, blasting Kamala as ineffective and politically toxic. One aide dismissed her entirely.
"Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job," one former Biden White House official told the outlet. "She had basically zero substantive role in any of the administration's key work streams, and instead would just dive bomb in for stilted photo ops that exposed how out of depth she was."
Another said that she lacked the courage to confront Biden face-to-face, framing her memoir as a half-hearted bid for “political absolution.” In short, Harris threw punches, and Biden World isn’t hesitating to swing back twice as hard.
A former Biden White House official said of Kamala to Politico, “No one wants to hear your pity party.”
What really sticks out is Harris’s bitterness toward Biden’s staff. She paints a picture of a vice president consistently undermined and marginalized, whether it was being left undefended from the “border czar” label that dogged her tenure—which was accurate no matter what she claims—or watching the White House squirm when her poll numbers briefly ticked up. In her words, Biden’s team operated with zero-sum thinking: If Harris looked good, somehow Biden would look worse. She argues that they went so far as to decide she “should be knocked down a little bit more”—a clear charge of deliberate sabotage from within.
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Even Biden’s farewell couldn’t escape Harris’s scrutiny. Watching from a Houston hotel room, she counted the minutes until Biden finally mentioned her near the end of his withdrawal speech, offering what she called perfunctory praise—a cold afterthought from a man who, in her view, owed her far more.
Kamala Harris’s 107 Days isn’t just a memoir—it’s a grenade lobbed straight into the heart of the Democratic Party. By airing her grudges so publicly, Harris risks igniting a full-blown civil war, forcing party leaders to confront the fractures they’ve spent years pretending don’t exist and making sure the wounds from 2024 never fully heal. What might have been private rivalries and quiet resentments are now on full display, exposing a party consumed by ego, ambition, divided loyalties, and bitter infighting—one that could be weakened for years to come and leave the GOP grinning all the way to the ballot box.
