Kamala Goes Scorched Earth, Recalls How Biden ‘Angered’ Her In Pre-Debate Pep-Talk

Former Vice President Kamala Harris recalled during a recent interview how then-President Joe Biden had “angered” her in the moments leading up to her one debate with President Donald Trump.

Harris told podcast host Steven Bartlett (“Diary of a CEO”) that Biden had called her prior to the debate, but that instead of giving her the encouragement and advice she expected, he’d made it clear to her that he was thinking only of himself.

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Kamala Harris now says Biden angered her and reveals how she “really felt” about the whole situation.

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“I’m in the hotel room with Doug, with my husband, and the president calls,” Harris began. “And I was told that he wanted to call me so that I’d be ready, and I was so sure it was to buck me up and ‘go get him!'”

“He did say that for the first beat. And then he went on to talk about a group of people in Pennsylvania who were saying bad things about me because they heard I was saying bad thing about him,” Harris continued. “And when I hung up the phone, I was just, I was, it was unbelievable! And I was yes, I was angry! And deeply disappointed.”

Harris went on to explain that she’d actually wanted Biden to give her some pointers: “It just. It was so unnecessary. There are only two people in the world other than me that has debated this guy, Hillary Clinton and him. And you know what it’s like, it’s … Going into a debate with the stakes being that high and Trump hadn’t agreed to another debate, the stakes were so high. So that’s an example of what I mean.”

“You took something from that. You took an underlying message about one’s intentions from that, because I would,” Bartlett prompted Harris to follow that thought to its logical conclusion. “If someone called me in the lead up to debate prep and said something like that to me, I would assume that they don’t want the best for me.”

“My takeaway is his motivation was all about himself,” Harris replied.

“That’s what I would assume from that,” Bartlett agreed.

“Obviously, right. Yeah. It wasn’t about my performance at the debate,” Harris said.

Bartlett took the argument a bit further, asking, “Do you think he wanted you to win the election?”

Harris said that she did believe Biden wanted he to win, but she thought that his motives had been selfish: “I do because I was the only one who would be able to preserve his legacy.”

“But even that’s about him,” Bartlett noted.

“Well, if I had to assume one of the reasons why he’d want me to win. If– yeah,” she said.