"But, as Harris writes in " 107 Days," her account of her brief stint as the 2024 Democratic Presidential nominee, there was also a helium balloon marked "with fat numerals: 60," even though her team knew full well that she had "stopped counting birthdays a long time ago." And so, "I looked at them with a big smile when I landed my stiletto heel in the middle of that balloon.""
"Her husband, Doug Emhoff, hitherto a stalwart, is exhausted (he's been campaigning in Michigan) and doesn't get it together to plan a special meal. He had a present-a gold-and-pearl necklace-but she susses out that it is a repurposed gift, originally meant for their anniversary, two months earlier. That night, when she gets in the tub and he doesn't hear her calling for help getting an out-of-reach towel, because he's turned on a baseball game, it's "a bridge too far.""
On October 20, 2024, Vice-President Kamala Harris reached her sixtieth birthday on the ninety-first day of her presidential campaign. Her campaign plane was decorated with streamers, a German chocolate cake, party hats, and a helium balloon marked “60,” which she punctured with a stiletto. A planned nicer hotel in Philadelphia proved disappointing. Her husband, Doug Emhoff, exhausted from campaigning, offered a repurposed anniversary gift and failed to arrange a special meal. A small domestic incident in the bathtub escalated into an argument that only subsided after Emhoff said, “We can't turn on each other,” a remark that landed on her like a bucket of ice water.
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