Kamala Harris and Jill Biden came face-to-face on Thursday for the first time since Harris unleashed a sharp rebuke of the Bidens in her tell-all memoir, 107 Days. The awkward reunion took place at the Washington National Cathedral, where both women attended the funeral service for former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The interaction was brief and appeared strained. While seated in the same pew, Harris reportedly spent more time chatting with former Vice President Mike Pence than she did with the current First Lady. The exact content of the exchange between Harris and Jill Biden remains unknown, but the chill in the air was unmistakable.
In her new book, Harris accused President Joe Biden and Jill Biden of recklessness in pushing forward with his 2024 reelection campaign. Reflecting on her own failed three-month White House bid, Harris criticized the political culture within the Democratic Party that deferred unquestioningly to the Bidens.
“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris wrote. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition.”
The memoir, set to be released September 23, has stirred controversy inside the party, especially as Democrats brace for a tough general election. Harris’s blunt assessment of the Bidens’ political judgment adds fuel to the fire of longstanding reports about tension between her and the First Lady.
Their relationship has never fully recovered from Harris’s 2019 Democratic primary attack on Biden over his past opposition to federally mandated school desegregation. “That little girl was me,” Harris said during a now-infamous debate moment — a moment that, according to multiple reports, infuriated Jill Biden. One source quoted the First Lady at the time saying Harris should “go f–k” herself.
It’s unclear whether President Biden spoke to Harris at Thursday’s service, which also coincided with his 83rd birthday. If he did, it wasn’t captured publicly.
The funeral became a quiet staging ground for high political drama, as past and present vice presidents — Harris, Pence, and former Vice President Dan Quayle — paid tribute to Cheney, a man whose own legacy looms large over national security debates in both parties.
But the real headlines centered around the current divide within the Democratic Party, with Harris’s memoir continuing to spark speculation about whether the 2024 ticket is truly united behind closed doors.
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