An excerpt from Vice President Kamala Harris upcoming book 107 Days published Wednesday in The Atlantic details deep friction between her team and President Joe Bidens aides in the tense weeks before Biden dropped out of the 2024 race.

According to Harris, Bidens staff resisted efforts to elevate her public profile, fearing voters might prefer her as the nominee instead of the president.

The excerpt describes Harris reasoning for not urging Biden to step aside:

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: Dont let the other guy win, Harris wro

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