Vice President Kamala Harris recounted how she was with her family members on a Sunday morning when she got a shock call from President Biden informing her about his decision to drop out of the race.
Harris, 59, was adamant that she has no regrets about standing with Biden during all the trials and tribulations when angst about his mental acuity reached a fever pitch.
“I’ll give you a little too much information,” Harris told CNN during her first sit-down interview Thursday since Biden dropped out.
“My family was staying with us, and including my baby nieces. And we had just had pancakes,” she went on. “We were sitting down to do a puzzle, and the phone rang, and it was Joe Biden and he told me what he had decided to do.”
Harris added: “‘I asked him, ‘Are you sure?’ And he said, ‘Yes.’”
Biden, 81, made clear to her that he’d back her to be the Democratic nominee and Harris stressed that her “first thought was not about me, to be honest with you, my first thought was about him.”
Biden had announced his seismic decision to drop out of the race on July 21 following weeks of mounting pressure from Democrats in the aftermath of his fumbling debate performance against former President Donald Trump in late June, which was hosted by CNN.
Shortly after throwing in the towel, Biden threw his weight behind Harris to be the Democratic nominee for president, helping her avert an open convention. She promptly spent hours burning the phone lines to shore up support and quickly locked down the nod.
Biden is slated to stump with Harris on the campaign trail for the first time she her ascension in Pennsylvania on Monday after he spent almost two weeks away from the White House.
The vice president will then face off against Trump on ABC News during a Sept. 10 debate in Philadelphia.
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