The reviews are in for former Vice President Kamala Harris’ memoir, “107 Days.” The book is bad on its own merits. And worse for what’s left of Harris’ reputation.
First, an unforgivably tardy critique of former President Joe Biden’s decision to stay in the presidential race. Harris never managed to artfully separate from Biden after she took his place as Democratic nominee.
“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris writes, according to a screenshot. “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”
An honest Democrat strategist might say the same of Harris’ decision to run in Biden’s stead.
But Harris isn’t done complaining.
“I shouldered the blame for the porous border, an issue that had proved intractable for Democratic and Republican administrations alike,” Harris whines. Note: President Donald Trump’s second administration has proved the issue is more than tractable.
Harris spins securing the border as an utter impossibility.
“No one around the president advocated, Give her something she can win with.”
What would that be? Third grade math? Slurring her words during interviews?
Harris claims she was “castigated for, apparently, delivering [a speech] too well.”
The Biden White House’s “thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital. It would serve as a testament to his judgment in choosing me and reassurance that if something happened, the country was in good hands. My success was important for him.”
If Harris managed to speak with half the lucidity she mustered for this book, she might’ve had different presidential odds.
Instead, Harris blames “a series of mistakes, committed over years, mostly by other people,” according to a review of the memoir from Semafor.
“I didn’t have enough time,” she writes, according to The New York Times (NYT).
Hellbound and Down 