前副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯周二在“早安美国”节目中表示，她确实后悔没有亲自挑战前总统乔·拜登竞选连任的决定。
在接受《早安美国》联合主持人迈克·斯特拉恩的采访时，哈里斯说，她没有对拜登选择竞选连任表示担忧是“鲁莽的”。
"你后悔当时没有说出你的意见吗?"斯特拉汉问哈里斯，她在信中写道竞选回忆录《107天》周二宣布改选的决定将由乔和吉尔·拜登做出。
“是的，”哈里斯说，“我，实际上我已经思考过这个问题，我也写过相关的文章。”
“如果你做了，会有关系吗?”斯特拉汉问哈里斯。
“我不知道，”哈里斯回答。“我不知道，但我只能为自己负责，经过反思，你知道，我在问自己一个问题的背景下谈论这件事，‘没有向他提起这件事是一种恩典，还是一种鲁莽?’
她补充说，“就我而言，我确实反思了这一点，觉得没有和他提起这件事是一种鲁莽。”
她说，她觉得向拜登提出她的担忧会被视为“自私”
“我谈谈我脑子里在想什么，对吗?我当时想的是，不提出这件事会显得非常自私，因此可能缺乏应有的可信度。但我确实想过。我确实考虑过，”她说。
“我还要说，虽然我对此谈得很多，但我对他竞选连任的担心与我对他作为总统的能力的钦佩和了解完全是两码事美国这是一贯的，从未动摇过，”哈里斯补充说。
在周二上午晚些时候的“观点”节目中，哈里斯反思了她的损失，称她经历了自母亲2009年因癌症去世以来最深切的悲痛。
“我总是在选举之夜招待家人、朋友和晚餐。但那天晚上，我的悲伤是我母亲去世后从未有过的，”哈里斯说，引起了观众深深的喘息。“这完全不是输掉一场比赛。我知道这对这个国家意味着什么。”
“我只能一遍又一遍地说，‘我的上帝，我的上帝，我的上帝，’”哈里斯后来补充道。
她在2024年竞选期间被问及她在该节目中的采访，她花了近30分钟来回答她与拜登的区别，当时她说，“我没有想到任何事情。”
“那次采访的那天，对我来说，真的是这个问题的象征。哈里斯说:“这不是——这没有造成问题，但它是问题的象征，这就是我是一个忠诚的人，我没有充分意识到人们有多么想知道我和拜登总统之间的差异。“我认为这是显而易见的，我不想以一种会被接受或暗示为批评的方式来提供差异。”
哈里斯说，她认为在竞选活动中谈论她的政策提案就足够了。
哈里斯说:“我想我是在表达我的观点，我现在意识到，我没有完全意识到拜登总统非常不受欢迎是一个多么严重的问题。”“我确实意识到了这一点。”
当被共同主持人Sunny Hostin问及去年与拜登的差异时，她是否认为她的回答“影响了选举”，哈里斯说，“没有。”
共同主持人乔·贝哈开玩笑说，“很好，因为桑尼不想承担责任。”
贝哈尔告诉哈里斯，她认为种族和性别是导致前副总统落选的因素，并问她在贝哈尔有生之年，美国是否会选出一位女性。
“我相信我们会的，”哈里斯告诉贝哈尔，她在2024年的竞选中基本上避免谈论她的种族或性别。
“我担任的每一个职位，我都是第一个，通常是第一个女性，然后往往是第一个女性和第一个有色人种，”哈里斯继续说。“唯一一次，实际上我是第二次，当时我是美国参议院数百年历史中第二位当选的黑人女性。所以我不是，我不是天真的-种族和性别确实在一些人如何投票的想法中发挥了作用。但是我的历史告诉我，因为我是第一个人们最终想知道这是做这项工作的最佳人选的人，这是他们的焦点，也是我一直以来的经营方式。我从未以女性或有色人种的身份参加过竞选，因为我相信我是最适合做这项工作的人。”
展望未来，哈里斯说，民主党需要专注于美国人的眼前需求，而不是基础设施等长期项目，并针对拜登政府的信息。
哈里斯说:“我认为还有一些工作要做，其中包括我认为24年选举已经非常明确的一件事，那就是美国人民希望他们的迫切需求得到满足。你知道，我们在基础设施法案等问题上投入了大量的精力和时间。如果我们采取不同的做法，我认为我们应该考虑采取不同的做法，我们应该在《重建得更好法案》中把家庭计划放在我们之前。因此，我们会做负担得起的儿童保育和带薪休假，并解决人们的一些更迫切的需求。"
“因此，展望未来，我认为这是当务之急。我们将为长期需要发生的事情制定计划，因为这些是最棘手的问题，但我们需要满足人们的即时需求，”哈里斯补充说。
Harris admits she was 'reckless' in not challenging Biden's decision to run for reelection
Former Vice President Kamala Harris told "Good Morning America" on Tuesday that she does regret not personally challenging former President Joe Biden's decision to run for reelection.
In an interview with "Good Morning America" co-anchor Michael Strahan, Harris said it was "reckless" of her to not raise her concerns with Biden choosing to run for reelection.
"Do you regret not voicing your opinion in that moment?" Strahan asked Harris, who wrote in hercampaign memoir "107 Days"out Tuesday that the reelection decision was Joe and Jill Biden's to make.
"Yes," Harris said, "and I, and I actually have reflected on that, and I've written about that."
"Would that have mattered if you did?" Strahan asked Harris.
"I don't know," Harris replied. "I don't know, but I can only take responsibility for myself and on reflection, you know, and I talk about it in the context of asking a question of myself, 'was that grace to not bring it up to him, or was it reckless?'
She added, "And on my part, I do reflect on that and feel that it was -- it was a recklessness about not raising it with him."
She said she felt raising her concerns with Biden would be seen as "self-serving."
"I talk about what was going through my head, right? And what was going through my head to not bring it up was that it would come off as being very self-serving, and therefore maybe lack the credibility that it deserved. But I do think about it. I do think about it," she said.
"And I also say, though, and I speak extensively about this, my concern about him running for reelection was completely separate from my admiration and knowledge about his capacity to serve as presidentUnited States, which was consistent and never wavered," Harris added.
On "The View" later Tuesday morning, Harris reflected on her loss, saying she experienced her deepest grief since her mother died of cancer in 2009.
"I've always on election night done family and friends and dinner. But that night, I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died," Harris said, eliciting deep gasps from the audience. "It was not at all about losing a race. I knew what it was going to mean for the country."
"And all I could say over and over again is, 'My God, my God, my God,'" Harris later added.
She was asked about her interview on the program during the 2024 campaign in which it took her nearly 30 minutes to answer what differentiated her with Biden, saying then, "There is not a thing that comes to mind."
"That day in that interview, for me, really was symbolic of the issue. It was not -- it did not create the issue, but it was symbolic of the issue, which is that I am a loyal person, and I didn't fully appreciate how much people wanted to know there was a difference between me and President Biden," Harris said. "I thought it was obvious, and I didn't want to offer a difference in a way that would be received or suggested to be a criticism."
Harris said she thought talking about her policy proposals on the campaign trail was enough.
"I thought I was making the point and I realize now that I didn't fully appreciate that how much of an issue it was yet that President Biden was deeply unpopular," Harris said. "I did realize that."
Asked by co-host Sunny Hostin -- who asked about differences with Biden last year -- if she thought her answer "tipped the election," Harris said, "No."
Co-host Joy Behar joked, "Good, because Sunny doesn't want to take the blame."
Behar told Harris she thinks race and sex were factors in the former vice president’s loss and asked her if America would elect a woman in Behar’s lifetime.
“I believe that we will,” Harris, who largely avoided talking about her race or sex during the 2024 campaign, told Behar.
“Every office I've held, I've been the first, usually the first woman, and then often the first woman and the first person of color,” Harris goes on to say. “The only time, actually I was the second, when I was the second black woman ever elected to the United States Senate in its hundreds of years history. So I'm not, I'm not naive -- race and gender do play a factor in some people's minds about how they vote. But my history tells me, because I have been the first in all of those that people ultimately want to know that this is the best person to do the job, and that's their focus, and that's how I've always run. I've never run as a woman or as a person of color because I believe I'm the best to do the job.”
Looking ahead, Harris said the Democratic Party needs to focus on Americans’ immediate needs rather than longer-term projects like infrastructure, taking aim at the Biden administration’s messaging.
“I think there's some work to be done, which includes one of the things that I think the '24 election made very clear, is the American people want their immediate needs met,” Harris said. “And you know, we paid a lot of good attention and time on issues like the infrastructure bill. If we had done it differently, and I think we should have considered doing it differently, we would have instead, in the Build Back Better bill, put the family plan before we did that. And so we would have done affordable child care and paid leave and address some of the more immediate needs of people.”
“So going forward, I think that has to be an imperative. We will have the plan for what needs to happen in the long term, because those are the most intractable issues, but we need to meet the immediate needs of people,” Harris added.
