Joe Biden Shaping Up To Be Dems’ Monkey On Back As Midterms Loom

Former President Joe Biden’s health and failed reelection bid continues to dog Democrats as they look ahead to the 2026 midterms, and as former Vice President Kamala Harris prepares to release her book, “107 Days” on Sept. 23.

Harris wrote in her memoir that it was “recklessness” to allow Biden and his wife, Jill, to make the sole decision to initially mount a reelection campaign, according to a recently released excerpt of the memoir. Several Democrats are “dreading” Harris’ forthcoming book tour as it seems likely to spur further inescapable questions about Biden, the Washington Post reported.

Tommy Vietor, a former Obama aide and co-host of “Pod Save America” told the Post that although Democrats don’t want to discuss Biden, they likely will not have a choice.

“The overwhelming majority of elected Democrats are focused on moving forward. There’s no interest for them in re-litigating this and neither are the vast majority of voters,” Vietor said. “But that kind of candor is going to be a prerequisite to be seen as credible. I think it will be important for the 2028 primary; people will be asked, ‘What did you know when?’”

Ammar Moussa, a veteran of both Biden and Harris’s campaigns, told