Former Vice President Kamala Harris didn’t have to author a book about her failed presidential campaign, especially one that’s full of slights against the very people she may need help from should she choose to mount another presidential run in 2028. But now that she has, Harris ought to read the room. The responses from friend and foe alike to “107 Days” have been brutal. Even liberal papers are saying in no uncertain terms that this memoir reminds the country why she lost.
Commenting on the media tour Harris has gone on to promote her book, The Washington Post editorial board says it’s been no different than some of her infamous blunders on the campaign trail.
“Is Harris a brilliant political mind who simply freezes up in front of cameras? Alas, taking the time to organize her thoughts in writing doesn’t help much,” the board writes. “Indeed, virtually every page of her book, ‘107 Days,’ offers a glaring reminder of why she failed to close the deal.”
And they didn’t stop there.
Much of the book is score-settling that ought to be beneath an aspiring president — the sort of small-mindedness that Democrats rightly knock President Donald Trump for. She is annoyed at Joe and Jill Biden over the former president’s decision to run again, but she did not press him to withdraw, even privately, because it was “as if we’d all been hypnotized.” The critique also extends to staffers and potential running mates. Even her husband gets chastised for failing to arrange a suitable birthday celebration while he was out on the road trying to get her elected.
A once and perhaps future presidential candidate should have a better grasp on what presidential leadership sounds like, even in a self-serving memoir. Instead, Harris creates the image of herself as an A student who tells interviewers her greatest weakness is that she’s just too much of a perfectionist. (WaPo)
In the piece titled “Kamala Harris’s one good deed,” the board notes the only plus about the former VP being back on the national stage is that it's happening now, not later.
"Democrats have a real shot at victory in 2028, but they won’t have time to waste on someone like the former vice president," the board concludes.
