Kamala Harris' inner circle crafted a 'Red File' contingency plan a year before Biden dropped out: book
Vice President Kamala Harris' brother-in-law Tony West created a succession strategy 1 year before President Joe Biden dropped out
By Deirdre Heavey Fox News
Published September 24, 2025 6:00am EDT
Vice President Kamala Harris' inner circle crafted a "Red File" contingency plan in the event something "traumatic" happened to President Joe Biden, the former vice president revealed in her new memoir "107 Days."
While the Biden campaign maintained that he was running for re-election until the moment he suspended his campaign, Harris' brother-in-law, Tony West, created a succession plan long before the president's consequential announcement, according to Harris.
"A year earlier, he had started what he called the ‘Red File,'" Harris wrote in her book. "With a president in his eighties, he suggested, it would be malpractice on my part to be unprepared if, God forbid, something should happen."
West had made a list of the first dozen calls to world leaders and political leaders, a plan for when to release her first statement and the rules of the transition. The "Red File" only grew as the pressure for Biden to drop out intensified, Harris said.
In the event of "such a traumatic moment," Harris said, West explained to her that it would be "prudent to have a plan for the first twenty-four to forty-eight hours, so people don't have to make a lot of decisions in the pressure of a crisis."
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