Washington (AP) – When it’s all over, Kamala Harris I couldn’t believe it. “I barely breathed,” she writes in her new book about learning that lost 2024 Presidential Election In Donald Trump.
One of her aides served the staff who smashed “President Madame” from the celebratory cupcakes. Harris continued asking, “My God, my God, what will happen to our kingdom?”
next morning It wasn’t easy. “I was embarrassed to realize I was in a state of negation and negotiation.
This is one of several live admissions to Harris’ book, “107 Days,” which is scheduled to be released Tuesday. The title refers to the length of the Hyperspeed campaign launched by the former Vice President against Trump. Joe Biden has dropped out of lace.
Harris gained a reputation as a guarded worship service, but the book has the tone of someone who has finished biting his tongue. She admits her mistake, reveals her frustration and details some of the stranger moments from her race.
This book is not a winding memoir or political paper, and Harris does not disclose plans for the future. Instead, it reads like a time bomb, with each chapter counting down to Election Day.
This is a memorable moment.
“Joe is tired.”
In her book, Harris claims she is not worried about Biden’s ability to serve as president. “If I had believed that, I would have said that.”
“But at 81, Joe was tired,” Harris wrote. “That’s when his age stumbled physically and verbally.”
Harris wrote that Biden’s inner circle “should have realised that any campaign is too far.” But “the more bad things got, the more they seemed to push him.”
The tenuous situation was revealed between Biden and Trump. I faced it To each other. “As soon as he walked into the Atlanta debate phase, he realized he was incorrect,” Harris wrote.
Biden’s team appeared to be denied. They then told Harris that “Joe Biden won.”
Biden was the source of frustration
Harris warmly wrote about his partnership with Biden, but there were some chilly moments. When faced with a call to Biden drop out of the race, he invited Harris to join him in the July 4th celebration at the White House.
First Lady Jill Biden pulled Harris’ husband Doug Emov aside. “What’s wrong?” she asked. “Do you support us?”
In private life, Emov erupted in anger. “Do they have to ask if we are loyal?”
Another difficult episode came after Harris replaced Biden at the top of the ticket and prepared for her own debate with Trump.
Shortly before she took the stage, Biden called out to her brothers that he had heard that Harris was making him malicious and that he was upsetting the Philadelphia power broker. He then scrutinized about his own debate performance while Harris “barely heard.”
“I couldn’t understand why he was calling me now and making everything about himself,” she wrote.
Hindsight is 20/20
Harris admits to making mistakes, especially harm. Appears in “The View” talk show. When one of the hosts asked what he had done in a different way than Biden over the past four years, Harris blanked the points of the story he had prepared and simply said, “There’s nothing to think of.”
“I never thought I’d pull a pin at a hand bullet,” writes Harris. Around the studio, they were about how “my staff gave “a gift to the Trump campaign” and “a gift for the Trump campaign.”
Harris wrote that he did not want to criticize Biden or sue the areas they opposed. But she also didn’t realize how much her relationship with the president was holding her back from running.
Senior Advisor David Proof told Harris honestly, “People hate Joe Biden.”
Search for VPs for VPs
The book has many grists that can make the next democratic convention a little more troublesome.
Harris wrote that Pete BattigegBiden’s Secretary of Transport and former Indiana mayor, was her first choice to become her running companion. He is also gay, and while Harris was already asking voters to accept black women as president, he thought it was “too risky” to choose him.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was another possibility. However, Harris “had been unable to settle for his role as Number 2 and had persistent concerns that he would embark on our partnership.”
She went together Minnesota Governor Tim Waltzhowever, his argumentative performance against JD Vance left her screams on the TV screen. “You’re not there to make friends with the guy attacking your running mate,” she said.
There is only one reference to California Governor Gavin Newsom in the book. When Harris reached out to him after Biden ended his reelection campaign, he texted, “Hiking. Callback,” but he never did.
Take over the campaign
Harris’ stepbrother is Tony West, a former Justice Department official and a member of her inner political advisor. While Harris was vice president, West put together what is known as the “Red File.” This is a collection of plans in case something happens to Biden.
West insisted that not preparing is stupid. Harris wrote that she “didn’t want to stay in such a contingency,” and said, “I left it with his hand.”
He continued to refresh the documents as people put pressure on Biden to drop out. This was helpful when Biden ultimately pulled the plug in his reelection campaign.
Harris wrote that Biden planned to wait a day before he supported her as his successor.
“If you want to put me in the strongest position, you have to support me now,” she recalls telling him. Harris won and support began shortly after Biden announced he was over.
Sometimes things got weird
The campaign could be hallucinated, and this was filled with strange moments.
“I wrote that I warmed up for a convention speech with a professional voice coach who wanted me to stand there and drain the animal noise. A little hesitant, Harris made “ham, groans, trills” with her for the whole team.
Harris also writes about talking to Trump after his second assassination attempt against him. Despite being torn by her in the campaign trajectory, Trump tried to flatten his opponent.
“How do you say something bad about you now?” he said. “I’m going to tone it down. I’ll do. You’re going to see it.” Then Trump said his daughter Ivanka was “a huge fan of you.”
When the phone ended, Harris was amazed at Trump’s ability to turn on charm. “He’s a con man,” she thought. “He’s really good.”
