“The Democratic Party needs to get comfortable with a certain kind of ruthlessness.” – Kamala HarrisThe Democratic Party needs to get comfortable with a certain kind of ruthlessness. pic.twitter.com/wbJSSb3cJF — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 8, 2026Kamala Harris jabs at Joe Biden’s old faith in a post-Trump ‘epiphany’ for RepublicansKamala Harris thinks Joe Biden had too much faith in Republicans, and she’s jabbing at him for it. “We cannot sit around hoping Republicans will have an ‘epiphany’ and do the right thing,” the former vice president will say in a speech Friday night in New Orleans, “because the American people can’t afford to wait.” Beyond eventually writing in her post-election memoir that leaving the decision to run for re-election to the former president and his wife was “recklessness,” Harris has been careful in distancing herself from her former boss since she took over the Democratic nomination from him in 2024.