Failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris has reemerged from her crushing election defeat and is hitting the media circuit to promote her new book, but some Democrats are not happy about it.
Even before the former vice president sat down with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on the eve of the release of “107 Days,” there was much bellyaching over the book, with critics questioning the timing and suggesting that it’s unnecessarily divisive, with the party struggling to regroup after Harris got her head handed to her by President Donald J. Trump last year.
107 Days is out September 23. I can’t wait for you to read it: https://t.co/YoG1f9o8d1
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 10, 2025
“Salt, meet wound,” one unnamed Democratic strategist said, according to The Hill. “Couldn’t come at a worse time for our party.
“Let’s keep rehashing everything, it’s really good for us,” the strategist added. “Let’s pick new fights. Why not?”
Advance excerpts from the book, which spins her disastrous campaign to absolve herself of the blame, are strongly critical of former President Joe Biden, whom she was tapped to replace as the party’s nominee after his CNN debate debacle, the moment when it became no longer possible for Democrats and the media to cover up for his mental decline.
The Hill quotes California-based Democrat strategist Garry South, who hadn’t yet read “107 Days,” but said the excerpts “show pretty clearly that she came out with arms flailing and guns blazing, blaming everyone but herself for her loss.”
“It is a curiously negative and ungracious tome for someone who reportedly thinks she can run again in 2028,” South added.
CNN was one outlet that published advance excerpts of the book, featuring a portion in which Harris throws the geriatric former president under the bus, even though she spent years covering up for his senility, which was obvious to anyone living in the reality-based world.
After insisting that she wasn’t concerned about Biden’s ability to carry out his presidential duties, she said, “If I believed that, I would have said so,” turning to the debate dumpster fire.
“But at eighty-one, Joe got tired,” Harris wrote. “That’s when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles.”
“As soon as he walked onto the debate stage in Atlanta, I could see he wasn’t right,” she wrote in the book, recalling that after the nationally televised face plant, Biden’s staff gave her talking points that “JOE BIDEN WON.”
Weeks later, she was installed as the party’s nominee without winning a single primary, courtesy of a coup orchestrated by Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama, who planted a butcher knife in the back of their “friend” who was forcibly shoved into retirement and swapped out with Harris, the worst Democrat presidential candidate of the 21st Century, and perhaps ever.
In the book, Harris also suggested that she declined to pick then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to be her running mate because he’s gay. Instead, settling on “Tampon” Tim Walz, an angry, inarticulate buffoon, out of the belief that the Minnesota governor would appeal to white males.
Another Democrat strategist is quoted by The Hill as saying that even though losing nominees “have a right to tell their stories,” they should be aware that their takes “aren’t being told in a vacuum.”
“It gives the other side an excuse to call us a mess while we air dirty laundry,” the person said.
Others defended the sore loser whose book is already being likened to Hillary Clinton’s 2017 “What Happened,” in which she blamed everyone but herself for being upset by Trump, who was at the time a political newcomer.
Her former communications director, Jamal Simmons, said that Harris “has a right to tell her story” and even more so “if she was treated the way she writes about in the book by the Biden White House,” according to The Hill.
“I think people will read it and see she had a lot of hurdles to jump,” said Simmons. “And many of them she jumped well, and some she had a hard time with.”
“From the chaos of campaign strategy sessions to the intensity of debate prep under relentless scrutiny and the private moments that rarely make headlines, Kamala Harris offers an unfiltered look at the pressures, triumphs, and heartbreaks of a history-defining race,” the Amazon description of the book reads. “With behind-the-scenes details and a voice that is both intimate and urgent, this is more than a political memoir—it’s a chronicle of resilience, leadership, and the high stakes of democracy in action.”
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