Kamala Harris had just finished making a Sunday pancake breakfast for her grandnieces before starting on a puzzle when she received a life-changing phone call.
“It was Joe Biden,” Harris said in an interview aired on CNN Thursday night, reflecting on the July 21 call she got at her residence at the Naval Observatory. “And he told me what he had decided to do.”
President Biden was letting her know he couldn’t go on. He was abandoning his reelection effort in the wake of a disastrous presidential debate performance that laid bare his frailties and sparked a coup of epic proportions.
