Former Vice President Kamala Harris claims Joe Biden “didn’t want” to debate Donald Trump and admitted that he had been “a little off” in the lead-up to his career-ending performance — despite vigorously defending the ex-prez in the fallout.  He was a major problem.

     Harris shared her thoughts on the earliest presidential debate in US history that forced Biden, then 81, to drop his re-election bid during a discussion about her new book on the election, “107 Days,” with YouTube host Steven Bartlett on his show “The Diary of a CEO.”  “He called me from debate camp. The president did, Biden did. And I could tell something was a little off,” she recalled of the days before the June 27, 2024, face-off.

     “I don’t think he wanted to debate is my point. He didn’t want that debate,” Harris said — even though the 46th president was first to publicly call for the mono-a-mono showdown in a May 15 post on X that year.  “It’s like any competition,” she added. “If it’s sports, you gotta want it, right? If you don’t want to be in the competition, it will absolutely have an impact on your performance. And I don’t think he — I’m pretty sure he did not want to debate. … We had conversations about it.”

     Harris, however, never mentioned anything being off when she issued a fiery defense of Biden in a testy interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the fallout of the disastrous performance. “Joe Biden is extraordinarily strong,” she hit back when probed if she thought the then-president should step aside. Biden dropped out of the race a month later, leading to Harris’ nomination.  In the disastrous performance, the Democratic incumbent spoke haltingly in a soft voice, mangled his talking points, and even uttered nonsensical remarks such as, “We finally beat Medicare.”