Harris’ Laughable 107 Day Attempt at Presidency
Kamala Harris has decided to pour out her soul, sharing the tale of her abortive 2024 presidential race in a memoir titled ‘107 Days’. Simon & Schuster will release it on September 23. It’s her recounting of one of the shortest and surely pressured presidential campaigns in recent history. She ominously mentions how ‘intense, high stakes, and deeply personal’ it was for her and seemingly for others as well.
The sudden birth of Harris’s presidential ambition took place when Joe Biden, in what some saw as an act of surrender, withdrew from the race in July 2024. Biden went on to endorse Harris on the same day he quit, potentially to absolve himself of failure through token gestures of party unity.
In the blink of an eye, over three months, Harris put together a nationwide operation only to witness its demise. She paraded herself at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, hoping to charm her way into voters’ hearts. What followed next was a futile attempt to challenge Donald Trump in a debate, which ultimately couldn’t rescue her sinking ship.
Her campaign inevitably expired, her concession speech delivered from Howard University. Her defiant call, ‘While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign’, might have touched a few hearts, but her failure was definitely a blow to many of her followers.
Harris admits that pulling herself together and switching on the news again took ‘months’ post her departure from office. A remark indecorously comparing it to ‘self-mutilation’ gives a glimpse of her sardonic sense of humor.
In her memoir, she has offered a backstage pass into her presidential campaign. It’s a narrative tightly packed with her nightly appeals to the heavens where she would hope to have done ‘everything I could do today’. One can’t help but wonder if those prayers would have been better directed at winning strategies.
While Harris attempted to cast herself as the solemn guardian of political values, she ends up leaving a tragic reminder of her inability to seize power. In her book, she vividly describes the day she had to certify Trump’s victory as vice president, a moment that, in her words, ‘conjured a lot’. The day was January 6, 2025, precisely four years after the insurrection.
The day was reportedly heavy in its significance, a sour distillate of her own failures along with the country’s monumental political paradigm shift. One can’t help but sense a profound regret and weightiness in her voice as she grappled with the events leading up to this day.
She then revealed the shocking truth behind her decision to step away from the gubernatorial race of California, a move that disappointed many of her strong supporters. She further asserted her discontent with the procedures in the run-up to Trump’s return and her perception of a malfunctioning system.
Despite these setbacks and failures, Harris remains adamant to continue fighting. ‘But that doesn’t mean I’m giving up the fight,’ Harris claims in her book. The vagueness of this ‘continuing fight’ nonetheless raises more questions than it answers.
Having ruled herself out of the 2026 gubernatorial run in California recently, it’s indeed puzzling to evaluate her subsequent moves. It’s unclear if her decision to retreat from the race was a smart political move or an avoidance strategy.
The memoir ends with a cliché phrase, indicative of her refusal to take a step back from her somewhat controversial political life. ‘You can never let anybody take your power from you’, she told Colbert, perhaps hinting at yet another bid for a position of power.