"In retrospect," Kamala Harris writes of letting Joe and Jill Biden decide on their own whether the then-president should have tried to run for re-election, "I think it was recklessness."

That is the assessment that the former vice president makes in her forthcoming memoir of her abbreviated 2024 run, in a significant break from the dutiful stance she took toward her old boss throughout their time in office and since.

"'It's Joe and Jill's decision.' We all said that, like a mantra, as if we'd all been hypnotised," Harris writes in the first excerpt of "107 Days" published on Wednesday morning by The Atlantic .

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"The stakes were simply too high. This wasn't a choice that should have been left to an individual's ego, a

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