Former US vice president Kamala Harris said it was "recklessness" to let Joe Biden run for a second term as president, in an excerpt released Wednesday from her upcoming memoir.

Harris -- who replaced Biden as the 2024 Democratic presidential candidate but lost to Donald Trump -- admitted that the then-81-year-old got "tired" and was prone to stumbles that showed his age.

She also lashed out at White House staff whom she accused of failing to support her -- and sometimes actively hindering her -- while she was Biden's deputy,

"'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," Harris said in the first extract from "107 Days", published by The Atlantic magazine

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