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5 takeaways from Kamala Harris's media tour

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23.09.2025

Former Vice President Harris’s media tour for her new book “107 Days” has set off a firestorm within her party over her no-holds-barred depiction of her short presidential campaign.

Equal parts memoir and critique, Harris outlined her thinking around choosing her running mate – ruffling the feathers of Democrats like former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in the process – and took jabs at former President Biden.

The book has already elicited pushback from some members of her party and comes at a precarious time for Democrats, who are looking to reset after a crushing November election.

Here are five takeaways from Harris’s media book tour:

Democratic divisions are reopened

Harris’s book resurfaced tensions within her party as she spoke about her running mate selection process and her thoughts on Biden. In one excerpt, Harris panned the former president running for a second term.

“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” Harris said in one excerpt, regarding Biden and the decision for him to run for a second term.

“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........

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