From a story on axios.com headlined “New book: V.P. political decline called ‘slow-rolling Greek tragedy'”:

A senator close to Vice President Kamala Harris lamented her political decline as a “slow-rolling Greek tragedy,” New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns write in “This Will Not Pass,” their book out May 3.

Why it matters: Republicans got the first headlines from the book, which the authors call “an account of a political emergency in the United States.” But the first year of the Biden presidency was also rocky for the White House and Democrats.