""Saddle up!" former President Barack Obama said, according to notes she made that day. "Oh my God, I'm so relieved! Send me anywhere!" former President Bill Clinton said. And Gov. Gavin Newsom, her old friend with whom she came up through San Francisco and California politics? "Hiking. Will call back," he said in a text message. He never did, Harris wrote."
"Maybe that subtle dig was as "inconsequential" as Newsom said it was. Her call came from an "unknown number," he told reporters in San Francisco last week when advance copies of the book first came out, and he texted Harris when he realized it was her. Besides, he endorsed her that very afternoon. (Something Harris didn't mention in the book released Tuesday.)"
""This is a literary gas can that she's lit," Sonoma State Political Science Professor David McCuan said. The book "has become basically this kind of tell-all, blow-up-the-bridge-behind-me. How you square that with running for president is somewhat beyond me.""
Kamala Harris documented the immediate reactions of prominent Democrats after President Joe Biden withdrew, capturing enthusiastic responses from Barack Obama and Bill Clinton alongside a terse text from Gavin Newsom that went unanswered. Newsom later characterized the exchange as inconsequential, saying the call came from an unknown number and endorsing her that afternoon — an endorsement omitted from her account. Observers characterized the disclosures as a telling and potentially damaging blow-up that could complicate future presidential ambitions. National polls already place Harris and Newsom as leading Democratic contenders, fueling speculation about emerging rivalry and campaign accountability.
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