Kamala Harris says she ‘had a certain responsibility' to argue against Biden running again

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Monday evening that she regrets not expressing her concerns about then-President Joe Biden running for a second term when a majority of Americans felt he was too old for the job.

- By CHRIS MEGERIAN

Kamala Harris (Photo by Adam Schultz/Biden for President)

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"I have and had a certain responsibility that I should have followed through on," Harris told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC in her first live television interview since the election.

Such a conversation, even if it happened privately and behind the scenes, would have been an extraordinary breach in a relationship between a president and vice president.

Harris's comments expand on a passage in her book, "107 Days," that looks back on her experience in replacing Biden as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee after he dropped out of the race. Harris ultimately lost to Republican candidate Donald Trump.

In the book, Harris wrote that everyone in the White House would say, "It's Joe and Jill's decision" about running for reelection, referring to the former president and first lady.