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.
The latest take on the book from the Washington Post suggests that to this day Harris doesn’t understand exactly why she lost, or what she might have done differently, particularly with respect to the living ghost of Joe Biden, which haunted her campaign to the very bitter end. Most interestingly, she talks about what many of us consider the great lost opportuni