Former staffers to Vice President Kamala Harris have revealed what working for the high-powered presidential candidate is really like, and some of the encounters they described raise questions about whether she has the temperament to succeed President Joe Biden.

A summary of past incidents between Harris and her ex-staffers was compiled by the Daily Mail and laid out in explicit detail how the Democratic leader shrugged off hurt feelings by staff members she reportedly berated and swore at during tense moments. An independent analysis of payroll records show that just four of the 71 staff members who worked for Harris over President Biden’s first term still remain part of her team. Her caustic behavior has at times been described as “soul-destroying” and bullying stretching back to her time as California attorney general.

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The change at the top of the Democratic ticket has sparked a rash of fears that Harris’s worst impulses will be multiplied now that the party has pinned all its hopes on her shoulders. Former aides told reporter Charlie Spiering it’s not shocking to learn about a 92% turnover rate under the veep considering how she has behaved behind the scenes: screaming matching with senior staff, berating underlings for minute oversights, and leaving interns in tears. That sentiment was echoed by Gil Duran, an ex-aide to AG Harris who quit after five months. “What is the common denominator through all this?” he said, “It’s her.”

The latter was confirmed by Barbara O’Connor, a professor at California State University, Sacramento, who said she eventually stopped referring her students to Harris’s attorney general office in the 2010s after several came back traumatized by their experiences and “felt they weren’t valued.” The conditions were equally dim after her 2017 election to the U.S. Senate where her office had the ninth-highest staff turnover rate in the body. Congressional sources described then-Sen. Harris lashing out at both Republican and Democratic staffers during the contentious confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, a woman who came forward alleging he sexually assaulted her in their teens.

After staging a walkout during part of the hearings, Harris exploded in anger outside the main Judiciary Committee hearing room. “Anyone who’s staff, get the f*** out of here!” she allegedly yelled, according to witnesses who were present at the time. Perhaps more revealingly, the Harris campaign declined to comment on the allegations.

By the time she embarked on her campaign for president in 2019, Harris’s behavior had become so “toxic” that staff members were going public with how bad morale had become. Former State Operations Director Kelly Mehlenbacher left in November of that year after declaring she had “never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly.”

She continued: “It is not acceptable to me that we encouraged people to move from Washington, DC to Baltimore only to lay them off with no notice. Morale has never been lower,’ she added, saying there was no ‘real plan’ for how Harris might win, but that she hoped her departure ‘might result in some serious consideration of […] our internal communications.” One month after Mehlenbacher went public, Harris ended her campaign, citing a lack of continued financial support by donors.

Harris was thrown a lifeline by Biden four months later when he tapped her to be his running mate, but the change in circumstances was not followed by a change in workplace behavior. By the time both arrived in the White House, staffers were speaking out anonymously as they railed against the vice president for cultivating a stifling and fear-ridden atmosphere where they were afraid of uttering the smallest offense that could trigger a wave of anger from Harris.

“It’s not a place where people feel supported but a place where people feel treated like s***,” one source said, describing the team as “low morale, porous lines of communication and diminished trust among aides and senior officials.” President Biden’s team saw what was happening and threw the veep under the bus. “It all starts at the top,” said one West Wing aide who watched the mistreatment go down.

Harris is now in the hottest spotlight on earth as she navigates a new political landscape upended by the departure of President Biden from the campaign trail. She narrowly trails former President Donald Trump in the polls but reportedly raised a mammoth $200 million in the first week of her presidential run, more than Biden raised in the final three months of his 2024 campaign.

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