Former Vice President Kamala Harris has revealed new details about her strained relationship with Jill Biden, claiming the former First Lady once cornered her husband Doug Emhoff in a tense loyalty test.
In her upcoming memoir 107 Days, Harris alleges Jill confronted Emhoff on July 4, 2024, at the White House, just weeks before Joe Biden ended his failing re-election campaign.
According to Harris, Jill pulled Emhoff aside into the Blue Room and demanded to know where his loyalties stood. “What’s going on? Are you supporting us?” Jill allegedly asked.
Emhoff insisted that he and Harris were loyal. “Of course we are supporting you,” he said, according to the book. But Jill wasn’t satisfied. “Okay. That’s really important. We need to know that,” she snapped.
Harris wrote that her husband returned visibly shaken from the encounter.
He later told her he was frustrated Jill had doubted them after years of working alongside the Bidens, per the Daily Mail.
The memoir paints a picture of mounting tension inside the Democratic Party after Biden’s disastrous June 27, 2024, debate against President Donald Trump.
Harris admitted that she had never seen Biden so confused and incoherent.
She wrote that “Joe got tired” and described the president’s performance as evidence of “confusion, incoherence, and debility.”
Even so, Harris insisted she did not interfere with Biden’s re-election decision. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high.”
When Biden officially dropped out on July 21, 2024, Harris said Jill delivered another blunt warning to Emhoff. After returning his call, Jill allegedly told him, “Be careful what you wish for. You’re about to see how horrible the world is.”
Harris claimed Jill’s hostility dated back years. She pointed to the 2019 Democratic primary debate where Harris attacked Biden over his opposition to federally ordered busing.
“I suspect Jill hadn’t quite forgiven me for the 2019 primary debate, when I’d gone hard at Joe over his early opposition to busing,” Harris wrote.
Harris said she always admired Jill’s loyalty to her family but admitted there was little socializing between their families, even when she served as vice president.
The bad blood lingered into Harris’s 2024 campaign. When she began vetting vice presidential candidates in early August, she turned to Bill and Hillary Clinton for advice. She did not mention consulting the Bidens.
Harris also left Jill out of her acknowledgements in 107 Days. She thanked Joe Biden for his support but made no mention of the former First Lady.
The book underscores the divisions inside the Democratic Party after Biden’s failed campaign and Harris’s rushed bid to replace him. What Harris describes as a “reckless” re-election attempt ultimately left scars that still shape her relationship with the Bidens.
