Former US vice president Kamala Harris revealed that former president Joe Biden’s aides didn’t like a March 2024 speech she gave in which she called for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, claiming that Biden’s inner circle felt she was outshining him, according to excerpts published Wednesday from her forthcoming book.

She made the speech in question at a commemoration of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 incident in Selma, Alabama, when civil rights marchers were attacked by police.

“I gave a strong speech on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Desperate people had been shot when they swarmed a food truck, and I spoke of families reduced to eating leaves or animal feed, women prematurely giving birth with little or no medical care, and children dying from malnutrition and dehydration,” Harris recalled in an excerpt published in The Atlantic from her upcoming book, “107 Days.”

“I reiterated my strong support for Israel’s security and called on Hamas to release the hostages and accept the ceasefire agreement then on the table. I also called on Israel for greater access to aid,” she continued.

“It was a speech that had been vetted and approved by the White House and the National Security Council. It went viral, and the West Wing was displeased. I was castigated for, apparently, delivering it........

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