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Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ close advisors drafted a ā€œRed Fileā€ detailing a transition plan over a year in advance of President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 election, Harris’ newly released book ā€œ107 Daysā€ reveals.

Harris described how her brother-in-law, former Obama administration Associate Attorney General Tony West, prepared a plan for the first ā€ twenty-four to forty-eight hoursā€ in the event that ā€œsomething should happenā€ to Biden.

ā€œWith a president in his eighties, he suggested, it would be malpractice on my part to be unprepared if, God forbid, something should happen,ā€ Harris wrote in her book. ā€œHe had thought through the first twenty-five calls I would need to make to world leaders, the first twenty-five to political colleagues, when to make my first statement, and what the rules of transition are.ā€

The failed 2024 Democratic nominee went on to describe how, after Biden’s disastrous debate performance in late June 2024 — which eventually led to him dropping out of the race the following month, West had ā€œpulled out the Red File and started adding to it.ā€

In discussing the fateful June 27, 2024 debate in her book, Harris characterized President Donald Trump’s performance as ā€œunburdened by the truth,ā€ adding that Trump was ā€œusing his words like a weapon.ā€

ā€œBiden, striving for accuracy, often stopped midsentence to correct himself, which left him sounding hesitant and garbled. I knew the important policy points he was struggling to convey, and I knew he knew them,ā€ Harris wrote of the debate. ā€œHe is a master of this material, but that was not coming across at all.ā€

ā€œWe waited for the promised call back from Joe, anxious as the minutes passed. News was starting to leak,ā€ Harris wrote describing July 21, 2024, the day of Biden’s withdrawal. ā€œThere was no postponing the announcement of his dropping out, Joe said. ā€˜But the statement endorsing you will go out a few minutes later.ā€™ā€

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