BBC reporter grills Kamala Harris for failing to raise concerns about Biden's fitness to serve

WASHINGTON, DC: During her recent interview on the BBC, which aired on Sunday, October 26, former Vice President Kamala Harris was repeatedly pressed on whether she felt she couldn't raise concerns about former President Joe Biden's reelection campaign. 

Host Laura Kuenssberg also asked Harris whether she was deliberately kept in the dark about the former president's health. 

BBC reporter questions Harris' silence over Biden's health

During the interview, Laura Kuenssberg asked, "But the context here, I think, at this historical moment you talk about, is so important because there had been months of speculation around the world, here in the UK too. Even in April, long before President Biden pulled out, we asked Nancy Pelosi what was going wrong."

"This was a huge subject of discussion, and you write that President Biden didn’t raise his frailty with you, and you write that you didn’t really raise it with him; that’s extraordinary to read in your account," she told Harris, referring to the former vice president's newly published book '107 Days'. 

Harris pushed back and said, "Let's be more precise: there is a very serious difference between capacity to be president of the United States and the capacity to run for president of the United States." 

She continued, "So, it is on that latter piece that I talk about in the book, about my concern about his ability, with the level of endurance, energy that it requires, especially running against... now the current president. So, that is what I speak about in the book."

The 61-year-old added that her remarks in the book were about her reflecting on whether, on her part, it was grace or recklessness not to raise the point with Biden about whether it was right for him to run. Harris insisted, "But let's be clear, my question was never about his capacity to be president."

Harris defends her stance and calls Trump a 'tyrant'

Laura Kuenssberg then asked Kamala Harris, "Isn't it a strange message to the public to say, you know what you need to be tougher and more able to run a political campaign than actually to be the person behind the desk in the Oval Office, to be the person making decisions in the Situation Room. So did you just not think it was that bad, or did you feel you just couldn’t raise it?"

The former vice president reiterated that she was concerned about what the campaign would demand of any candidate, "regardless of age." She also suggested she might run for office again, telling Kuenssberg, "I am not done. I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones."

In the end, Harris labeled President Donald Trump a "tyrant," accusing business leaders and institutions of cozying up to the president and bowing to his demands.