“107 Days” new book by Kamala Harris

[Anonymous]

She doesn't say Biden was not capable of handling the job.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there should have been more intervention to get Joe Biden to drop out of the race earlier. Joe and Jill’s personal feelings do not supersede the needs of the nation.

Democrats around the country did not accept this. Dean Phillips ran explicitly on this. You vote for Phillips in New Hampshire, and then other candidates jump in, maybe Biden drops out like LBJ.
Instead, Democrats either attacked or ignored Phillips and pretended all was well with Biden.

Democrats also VOTED FOR BIDEN. In New Hampshire when he wasn’t even on the ballot they WROTE HIM IN. There was no appetite for this. That’s why he should have taken the midterms as a win and gotten out, saying look at this incredible bench. But no one told him that everyone thought he had said over and over that he was only running for one term even though he had only hinted at it once.

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Anonymous wrote:The main message I’m getting is that everyone, including DNC leadership, was out for their own ego.

Everyone I know who worked on the campaign said this.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/kamala-harris-107-days-excerpt/684150/

The Atlantic article features the beginning portion of the book. I’m typically not one for politician books but I think there is meaningful stuff in here. Biden staying or leaving the race was entirely “Jill and Joe’s decision” and it was up to them. She specifically seems to go after Joe Biden’s comms team.

I do sympathize with Harris as I think she could have possibly had another 10 to 15 years of service in national politics if not for her career being tanked by her association with Biden. Then again, it was her decision to accept the offer of VP from someone who would be 78 years old at the start of a first term. She is now suffering the same fate as Pence and Vance with her political career being ended by an association with a very unpopular president.

According the Fight by by Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen, Harris was forced on Biden by Jim clyburn. Biden tried to find another candidate but couldn’t find one that satisfied Clyburn.

Harris was the only one who could cleanly and easily take over the $90 million that the Biden-Harris campaign already had in the bank, plus there wasn’t time for any kind of mini primary. That’s why she was the candidate.

Agree 100%. She didn't ask to be put into that no-win situation but she worked her butt and did the best she could against insurmountable odds. Biden lost the 2024 election for the Dems; not Harris.

Also, if BIden resigned due to cognitive difficulties, she would have been the President and no one primaries against the sitting President. He sort of resigned by not running again AND even if he didn’t, sitting VPs often automatically get the nod from a party anyway. Robust primaries against a sitting VP or President don’t typically happen.

SHe was the obvious and traditional choice for the nomination.

A sitting POTUS with a sub 40% job approval rating in an election year causes their party to lose 100% of the time even against an opponent as equally weak as Trump. Dem had no chance in 2024 regardless of who their nominee was with Biden as the sitting POTUS. This dynamic will be applicable to the GOP in 2028.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there should have been more intervention to get Joe Biden to drop out of the race earlier. Joe and Jill’s personal feelings do not supersede the needs of the nation.

Democrats around the country did not accept this. Dean Phillips ran explicitly on this. You vote for Phillips in New Hampshire, and then other candidates jump in, maybe Biden drops out like LBJ.
Instead, Democrats either attacked or ignored Phillips and pretended all was well with Biden.

Democrats also VOTED FOR BIDEN. In New Hampshire when he wasn’t even on the ballot they WROTE HIM IN. There was no appetite for this. That’s why he should have taken the midterms as a win and gotten out, saying look at this incredible bench. But no one told him that everyone thought he had said over and over that he was only running for one term even though he had only hinted at it once.

He couldn't be a lame duck at that point in his presidency either domestically or from a foreign policy perspective.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there should have been more intervention to get Joe Biden to drop out of the race earlier. Joe and Jill’s personal feelings do not supersede the needs of the nation.

Democrats around the country did not accept this. Dean Phillips ran explicitly on this. You vote for Phillips in New Hampshire, and then other candidates jump in, maybe Biden drops out like LBJ.
Instead, Democrats either attacked or ignored Phillips and pretended all was well with Biden.

Democrats also VOTED FOR BIDEN. In New Hampshire when he wasn’t even on the ballot they WROTE HIM IN. There was no appetite for this. That’s why he should have taken the midterms as a win and gotten out, saying look at this incredible bench. But no one told him that everyone thought he had said over and over that he was only running for one term even though he had only hinted at it once.

He couldn't be a lame duck at that point in his presidency either domestically or from a foreign policy perspective.

That’s what I thought and said at the time. But in hindsight he didn’t get much done domestically after the House flipped anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:I think there should have been more intervention to get Joe Biden to drop out of the race earlier. Joe and Jill’s personal feelings do not supersede the needs of the nation.

Democrats around the country did not accept this. Dean Phillips ran explicitly on this. You vote for Phillips in New Hampshire, and then other candidates jump in, maybe Biden drops out like LBJ.
Instead, Democrats either attacked or ignored Phillips and pretended all was well with Biden.

Democrats also VOTED FOR BIDEN. In New Hampshire when he wasn’t even on the ballot they WROTE HIM IN. There was no appetite for this. That’s why he should have taken the midterms as a win and gotten out, saying look at this incredible bench. But no one told him that everyone thought he had said over and over that he was only running for one term even though he had only hinted at it once.

He couldn't be a lame duck at that point in his presidency either domestically or from a foreign policy perspective.

And there is no such thing as a 50 year power-hungry politician giving up the chance at a second term for the sake of the country. This is why nominating an unlikable 77 year old who had never had success outside of Delaware in 2020 was a mistake that doomed the party and country in 2024.

[Anonymous]

Slice and and dice it anyway you or her wants. With a bazillion dollars she lost ALL 7 key battleground states. Stop there.

You will of course own your success against the odds. You should also own your fails even when you couldn't figure out how to win.

This is on all of them. Credit where it's due - ALL of them had a hand in this. Biden was ancient just becoming POTUS. Dems didn't have a ton of bench strength to pull from. Kamala is an idiot. She rep the DEI vote - in DEI and a woman and laugh at her. Cyborg made the wrong call. Jill did nothing to truly help DH. All of them had a hand in this epic loss to the orange buffoon. If you lose to DT a 2nd time, ain't nobody to blame but yourselves Dems!

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Anonymous wrote:Slice and and dice it anyway you or her wants. With a bazillion dollars she lost ALL 7 key battleground states. Stop there.

You will of course own your success against the odds. You should also own your fails even when you couldn't figure out how to win.

This is on all of them. Credit where it's due - ALL of them had a hand in this. Biden was ancient just becoming POTUS. Dems didn't have a ton of bench strength to pull from. Kamala is an idiot. She rep the DEI vote - in DEI and a woman and laugh at her. Cyborg made the wrong call. Jill did nothing to truly help DH. All of them had a hand in this epic loss to the orange buffoon. If you lose to DT a 2nd time, ain't nobody to blame but yourselves Dems!

Biden is the smug idiot who never should have been anywhere close to occupying The White House. Harris has more intelligence in her pinky finger than Trump and Biden do combined. She did absolutely nothing wrong and represented herself very well while running for POTUS in a situation where the sitting POTUS gave her zero chance of winning. Get your facts straight.

[Anonymous]

honestly tired of everybody trying to monetize books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:honestly tired of everybody trying to monetize books.

They wouldn't bother if the stupid people in the GOP and Dem bubbles would stop buying their trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slice and and dice it anyway you or her wants. With a bazillion dollars she lost ALL 7 key battleground states. Stop there.

You will of course own your success against the odds. You should also own your fails even when you couldn't figure out how to win.

This is on all of them. Credit where it's due - ALL of them had a hand in this. Biden was ancient just becoming POTUS. Dems didn't have a ton of bench strength to pull from. Kamala is an idiot. She rep the DEI vote - in DEI and a woman and laugh at her. Cyborg made the wrong call. Jill did nothing to truly help DH. All of them had a hand in this epic loss to the orange buffoon. If you lose to DT a 2nd time, ain't nobody to blame but yourselves Dems!

Biden is the smug idiot who never should have been anywhere close to occupying The White House. Harris has more intelligence in her pinky finger than Trump and Biden do combined. She did absolutely nothing wrong and represented herself very well while running for POTUS in a situation where the sitting POTUS gave her zero chance of winning. Get your facts straight.

Did she win any of the 7 battle states? No you say? What did she do right pray tell? You may like her but clearly almost everyone else did not. As a politician your job is to be likable. That's an F her.

I'd like to add that if it was me or anyone with any self respect, I'd want to forget about this debacle esp in the context of how messed up we all are with our current POTUS who did win. He's a nut job but he won. To the victor go the spoils. I hate him, you hate him but he won. I give him and his staff credit for beating her. It doesn't matter how much we hate him or you love her - this is not about what we want, it's about results.

I'd want to never be reminded of my utter complete fail and the last thing I want to do is have everyone relive this and analyze it 1000 ways because the result doesn't change if you look at it 5000 ways.

It's everyone's fault incl hers and that she wants to make more $$ or place blame in anyone other than herself is the reason she couldn't win in the first place. Her actions in writing this kind of book proves to me that she has no dignity and nobody respected her enough to vote for her even though they hated Trump. That's called lack of character.

[Anonymous]

The root cause of her defeat was. . . her. She complains about only having 107 days, but she waited 40 days to grieve her first media interview. The reality is that the longer the race went on, the less popular she became. Her problem was not lack of time, ironically, it was too much time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slice and and dice it anyway you or her wants. With a bazillion dollars she lost ALL 7 key battleground states. Stop there.

You will of course own your success against the odds. You should also own your fails even when you couldn't figure out how to win.

This is on all of them. Credit where it's due - ALL of them had a hand in this. Biden was ancient just becoming POTUS. Dems didn't have a ton of bench strength to pull from. Kamala is an idiot. She rep the DEI vote - in DEI and a woman and laugh at her. Cyborg made the wrong call. Jill did nothing to truly help DH. All of them had a hand in this epic loss to the orange buffoon. If you lose to DT a 2nd time, ain't nobody to blame but yourselves Dems!

Biden is the smug idiot who never should have been anywhere close to occupying The White House. Harris has more intelligence in her pinky finger than Trump and Biden do combined. She did absolutely nothing wrong and represented herself very well while running for POTUS in a situation where the sitting POTUS gave her zero chance of winning. Get your facts straight.

Did she win any of the 7 battle states? No you say? What did she do right pray tell? You may like her but clearly almost everyone else did not. As a politician your job is to be likable. That's an F her.

I'd like to add that if it was me or anyone with any self respect, I'd want to forget about this debacle esp in the context of how messed up we all are with our current POTUS who did win. He's a nut job but he won. To the victor go the spoils. I hate him, you hate him but he won. I give him and his staff credit for beating her. It doesn't matter how much we hate him or you love her - this is not about what we want, it's about results.

I'd want to never be reminded of my utter complete fail and the last thing I want to do is have everyone relive this and analyze it 1000 ways because the result doesn't change if you look at it 5000 ways.

It's everyone's fault incl hers and that she wants to make more $$ or place blame in anyone other than herself is the reason she couldn't win in the first place. Her actions in writing this kind of book proves to me that she has no dignity and nobody respected her enough to vote for her even though they hated Trump. That's called lack of character.

If you don't have the IQ to understand why the 2024 Dem general election loss is the fault of Joe Biden and not Harris, you need to stop embarrassing yourself on political message boards and maybe hire a life coach.

[Anonymous]

No she ran. He is a fail but it was her campaign. If you don't have the IQ to know who was running for office, you are not qualified to comment.