Kamala Harris took a dig at her former boss, ex-President Joe Biden, saying his administration didn’t do enough to help her ill-fated run for president last year.
Asked by comedian Jimmy Kimmel whether Biden and “his people” did everything they could to aid her ailing campaign in a Wednesday interview, Harris had a blunt response.
“Certainly I think we needed more time. And from certain places in the administration, we needed more support,” Harris vented.
In the roughly 20-minute appearance, Harris mused about the Trump administration, the Epstein files, and her new book “107 Days” as part of a stepped-up publicity tour that’s sparked speculation about her plans for a third run for president.
Harris dramatically expanded her book tour, gave a high-profile speech before the Democratic National Committee at its winter meeting, and is testing out new talking points, Axios reported.
After defending Biden during her abbreviated presidential bid, Harris has taken to railing against the Democratic status quo she once embodied. Yet she has struggled to articulate some of its choices, giving a word-salad response to Kimmel when asked about the decision not to release the Epstein files under Biden.
“To give you an answer that will not satisfy your curiosity, we — perhaps to our damage — but we strongly, and rightly, believed that there should be an absolute separation between what we wanted as an administration and what the Department of Justice did,” Harris said Kimmel’s show.
“We absolutely adhered to that and it was right to do that.”
Asked about apparent chaos under Trump’s second term, Harris rambled: “So let’s go through it and I, again, I even map out, first of all, I know that it has felt chaotic. But what we are in fact witnessing is something that is a high velocity event.”
“It is moving quickly, which is the swift implantation of a plan that has been, in a large part decades in the making,” Harris said. “The Federalist Society, all of the work that has happened, Heritage Foundation, all the work that has happened over years that it about deconstructing government’s ability to have checks and balances on abuse of power.”
Early polls show Harris near the top of the pack Democratic potential 2028 contenders.
