Kamala Harris ‘concerned’ she did not ask Biden to quit racepublished at 09:37 GMT<\/p>\n
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Kamala Harris expresses concern she didn\u2019t ask Joe Biden to pull out of presidential race<\/p>\n
In her wide-ranging conversation with Laura Kuenssberg, Kamala Harris expresses concern that she didn’t ask Joe Biden to pull out of the race for the White House.<\/p>\n
She says: “I do reflect on whether I should have had a conversation with him, urging him not to run for re-election.”<\/p>\n
After months of speculation about his health and mental acuity, President Biden ended his re-election bid in July 2024 after a disastrous performance in a debate against Donald Trump a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n
Harris, who stepped in as the Democratic nominee but lost to Trump, has revealed in her book about her three-month campaign that she did not discuss with former President Biden her concerns over his ability. Nor did the then 81-year-old raise the issue with her.<\/p>\n
She tells the BBC that she still ponders whether she should have acted differently and talked to him about it.<\/p>\n
Harris says “my concern, especially on reflection is, should I have actually raised it”.<\/p>\n
She questions whether it was “grace or recklessness” that stopped her speaking up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris ‘concerned’ she did not ask Biden to quit racepublished at 09:37 GMT 09:37 GMT Media caption,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-226329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}