‘Unhelpful’: Democratic Strategist Slams Kamala Harris Book Revelations as ‘A Bunch of Finger Pointing’
Democratic strategist Michael Hardaway told MSNBC on Saturday that he didn’t “see the point” of former Vice President Kamala Harris’s new book that takes aim at former President Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats.
“I don’t see the point in writing this book and releasing it right now,” Hardaway said. “In an era where the constitution and this country are under assault by the horrific policies of this president, she’s writing this book, which is essentially a bunch of finger pointing and blaming others.”
He continued:
At the end of the day, if your name is on the door, whatever happens is your responsibility. That’s always been my perspective. And so, she’s a woman — obviously, she’s had to deal with that. She’s black — she’s had to deal with that. But I’m of the perspective that whatever the case, whatever happens, your name is on the door. And, so, I think this book is unhelpful for that reason. The finger pointing is unhelpful, and we need to come together as a party and be unified in terms of our message, and working together. And this book doesn’t facilitate that.
The book, 107 Days, is due out next week. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski read an excerpt on the air that drew the ire of Biden’s former staff.
“I often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to the negative,” Brzezinski read. “Narratives that sprang up around me when the stories were unfair or inaccurate. The president’s inner circle seemed fine with it. Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more. Their thinking was zero-sum. If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that. If I did well, he did well.”
Axios reporter Alex Thompson spoke to several administration aides, one of whom claimed, “Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job,” adding that Biden is “not the reason she struggled in office or tanked her 2019 campaign. Or lost the 2024 campaign, for that matter.”
Another aide called Harris’s account as “an attempt at political absolution.”
“I’m not sure the very robust defense of not having the courage to speak up in the moment about Biden running is quite as persuasive as she thinks it is,” they said.
