Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar said in his upcoming memoir that he considered running for president in 2024 out of frustration over the Biden administration’s handling of the southern border with Mexico.

“I should run for president,” he told himself in his forthcoming book “Borderlands: My Fight for an Inclusive America,” Politico reported Thursday, having obtained a copy ahead of the book’s July 28 release.

Salazar told the outlet that there was a “political failure to understand the reality of the crisis at the border, and the political consequence it would have on Democrats in the 2024 election.”

He writes in the book that he frequently called on White House officials and former President Biden himself to tap someone to be a “border czar,” a role that eventually went to former Vice President Kamala Harris.

“But sadly, her designation in this position was having no effect on migration flows,” he wrote, according to Politico. “[Harris] had been placed in charge of getting at the ‘root causes’ of migration, but many felt she had been ineffective. For whatever reason, she had been unable to help with the border and migration crisis, even though she’d sat next door to the Oval Office for almost four years.”

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