"Kamala Harris's memoir about the 2024 presidential campaign, 107 Days, is being released next week. The emerging theme from the excerpts and leaks is that the former vice-president feels snakebit. The title of the book illustrates her complaint that Joe Biden's reluctance to step aside forced her into a too-brief campaign in which the 46th president's legacy and continuing interference were insurmountable problems."
"Still, Harris defends her actions against her critics who said she should have done more to distance herself from Biden, saying she did not 'want to embrace the cruelty of my opponent.' She also argues that naming one specific policy difference would have created a 'backward-looking rather than forward-looking' conversation and 'would have limited the definition of the difference between us to that one thing, rather than my unique perspective on a variety of issues.'"
Kamala Harris feels 'snakebit' after the 2024 presidential campaign, blaming Joe Biden's reluctance to step aside for forcing a too-brief campaign and leaving Biden's legacy and interference as insurmountable obstacles. She believes an October 8 appearance on The View damaged her campaign when she said, 'There is not a thing that comes to mind.' Harris defends avoiding explicit distinctions from Biden to avoid embracing her opponent's cruelty and to keep the conversation forward-looking. Campaign staff viewed her View answer as disastrous, and she reports wishing in hindsight that she had offered a different example, such as appointing a Republican.
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