A recently published book uncovers the aspirations of Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign aides during the unsuccessful 2020 presidential race, where they secretly wished for her to never ascend to the White House.

The comments are part of “The Truce: Progressives, Centrists and the Future of the Democratic Party,” by Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen.

Harris, who served as a senator from California during that period, embarked on a campaign that met a disastrous fate even before the initial votes were cast. Consequently, she made the decision to withdraw from the Democratic primary race in December 2019.

According to the book, an unidentified campaign staff member is cited as describing the campaign as “rotten from the start.”

“A lot of us, at least folks that I was friends with on the campaign, all realized that: ‘Yeah, this person should not be president of the United States,’” the book quoted the aide as saying.

Harris, the daughter of an Indian immigrant mother and Jamaican immigrant father, was chosen as the running mate in 2020 after then-Democratic nominee Joe Biden had essentially limited his options to selecting a black woman. Walker and Luppen cite another aide who suggests that Harris’s support largely stems from her racial and ethnic heritage.

“But you’ve got to back that up with: ‘What are you going to do?’” the aide is quoted as saying.

The book said dysfunction has followed Harris.

“The problems Harris and her team had experienced on her campaign had persisted during her time as vice president,” Walker and Luppen wrote.

“Harris saw heavy staff turnover, with aides describing a toxic climate riven with factionalism and mismanagement. One source who worked for the vice president declined to go on record or even discuss matters anonymously, due to the heated atmosphere around the office,” the book said. “They refused to characterize the experience of working for Harris, apart from offering a three-word assessment. It was, they said: ‘Game of Thrones.’”

According to Fox News, journalist Franklin Foer’s book “The Last Politician” depicted Harris as excessively sensitive and contradictory in the previous year.

“Harris possessed what one of her colleagues described as ‘rabbit ears,’” Foer wrote. “Whenever there was a hint of criticism of her — either in the West Wing or in the press — she seemed instantly aware of it.”

“Rather than brushing it aside, she wanted to know who was speaking ill of her and what they were saying,” the book said, adding that when Harris “read a devastating story” on a website “about her mismanagement of her team,” she “responded by briefly freezing out an aide whom she suspected of cooperating with reporters.”

“She let the criticism guide her,” he added, noting that after being given the mission of addressing the root causes of illegal immigration, she balked.

“Instead of diligently sticking to the Central America assignment, she seemed to accept the conventional wisdom about it. It was a futile gig, so she let it fall to the side, missing an opportunity to grind her way to a meaningful achievement,” the book said.

According to the book, Ron Klain, the White House Chief of Staff, made efforts to assist Harris; however, she did not show any willingness to cooperate.

“She told him that she didn’t want to work on women’s issues or anything to do with race. She wanted her office to be majority female — and to have a Black woman as chief of staff,” the book said.

Foer wrote that, to “Klain’s ear, she was creating too many rules, and they made it hard for her to find her footing.”

According to Newsweek, Thomas Gift, the head of the Centre on U.S. Politics at University College London, has expressed his view that Harris has become a burden on President Joe Biden. Gift drew a comparison between Harris and Dan Quayle, who served as the vice president under George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1992. Quayle faced severe criticism from the establishment media and entertainment celebrities during his time in office.

“To realize just how unpopular Kamala Harris is, you have to keep in mind the historical significance of it all. No one in her position has had this low of favorabilities in a first term since Dan Quayle. That’s saying something. So it’s no surprise, especially with Biden’s age, that Republicans keep hammering home a simple point: a vote for Biden is a vote for Harris,” he said.

“While it’s usually the top of the ticket that drives voting, and that will be true again in 2024, Harris’ abysmal popularity will matter on the margins. And with next year’s election poised to be close, those margins could end up being a difference-maker,” he said.