Biden was split between Harris and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, according to "Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Trump" by Edward-Isaac Dovere, which was published Tuesday.
Biden particularly connected with Whitmer because they both had family members who died of the same kind of cancer.
"Two days before Biden announced Harris, he called [House Majority Whip Jim] Clyburn," Dovere wrote. "A decision that he originally said would be made the first week in August had drifted already well into the second week. He knew, he knew, Biden told Clyburn, and though he was almost there, he was struggling. ‘I’m torn,’ he said, ‘between my head and my heart.’"
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Biden and Harris already had their gloomy past. He had been blindsided by her charge on him throughout a 2019 Democratic presidential primary debate.
Throughout that debate, Harris denounced remarks by the former vice president highlighting his ability to find common ground throughout the 1970s with segregationist senators with whom he opposed, and over his opposition decades ago to federally mandated school busing.
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"Do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America?" Harris asked Biden through the debate.
"There was a little girl in California who was a part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day," she stated. "And that little girl was me."
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Biden was "taken aback," Dovere wrote.
"She thought it was a fair hit," Dovere went on. "This is a debate, '' she said, and debates were supposed to be about differences. She wasn't running for VP, despite what so many people – Biden included – assumed. She was running to be president, to beat Biden and everyone else. She wanted everyone to know that. Onstage, she seized her moment."
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"A few minutes later, the moderators paused for a commercial break," Dovere wrote. "Biden leaned over to Buttigieg, at the podium to his right. They barely knew each other, but Biden was looking for someone to share the moment with. ‘Well,’ he said. ‘That was some f---ing bull---.’"
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Biden chose not to hold a grudge, though his wife Jill Biden reportedly did.
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"With what he cares about, what he fights for, what he’s committed to, you get up there and call him a racist without basis?" Jill Biden reportedly said of Harris on a phone call with close supporters a week later. "Go f--- yourself."
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