Isolated Kamala
Kamala Harris on Tuesday [abruptly] downplayed tension with fellow Democrats while accepting some blame for her 2024 election defeat, as the former vice president’s account of her abbreviated 15-week-long presidential campaign hits shelves.
Harris’ memoir, titled “107 Days,” is so rife with criticism for prominent Democrats such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and former President Joe Biden that strategists opined it could represent a swansong from politics.
But in a Tuesday interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” Harris appeared keen to turn attention away from her squabbles with members of her own party and instead focus squarely on the man who beat her in the 2024 election: President Donald Trump.
“Part of the reason that I have written this book is for us to remember that there is somebody in the White House right now that made a whole lot of promises, that were either about what would aggrandize and help him mete out his vengeance, or about lies he told to the American people that he obviously never intended to keep,” she said.
And she’s keeping her options open about potentially entering the 2028 election, saying Tuesday that “I’m not focused on that right now, I’m really not.”
In the book, Harris detailed the process by which she chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, lobbing thinly veiled jabs at several of the top Democrats who participated in the selection process. As excerpts of the book made the rounds in recent weeks, the Democrats Harris impugned have pushed back with force.
Harris, who ruled out a run for California governor in July, on Tuesday gave ABC’s Michael Strahan a rosy assessment of the Democratic Party’s electoral bench — and said she wasn’t trying to settle any scores in her party.
When asked if the book may have burned some bridges between her and other Democrats, she responded “No, and that’s not my intention, and I hope not.”
“We have nothing but stars, as far as I’m concerned, in the party,” she continued. “And I talk glowingly about who they are and what they are contributing. And frankly, I think that part of the problem that we have right now in terms of the punditry is to suggest that we are waiting for a messiah and the savior, and the saving message, instead of seeing that we actually have a lot of stars who are doing very good work.”
Harris’ appearance on “Good Morning America” is one of several stops she is taking in a media tour to promote her book. Harris sat down with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow in an interview Monday, during which she accepted part of the blame for not effectively pressuring Biden to refrain from seeking reelection.
Later on Tuesday, Harris appeared on “The View,” the program she highlighted in her book when describing her own failure to effectively separate herself from the unpopular Biden administration. “There is not a thing that comes to mind,” she said in October 2024 when asked if there was anything she would have done differently from Biden over their four years in the White House.
Harris told the hosts of the daytime talk show that she and Biden have remained in touch.
“It’s a good relationship and it’s a relationship that is based on mutual respect, having been in the trenches together, and admiration,” she said. “And it’s sincere.”
But her book painted a complicated relationship between her and her onetime boss, describing what she called a productive relationship but also unleashing criticism on his inner circle and his decision to run for office again.
Harris on Tuesday pivoted to her role in processing the peaceful transition of power to Trump when Strahan asked for her thoughts on Biden’s insistence that he would have won the election had he stayed in. And she accepted the ultimate blame for her loss.
“As I say many times in different ways in the book, the buck stopped with me,” she said. “And I’m clear about that. I’m clear about that. And there were so many factors.”
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Please keep donate Gaza especially if you, as reader, has [background] International Relation [whatever universities]. IR Graduate means [you must, at least] get some semester [about] studying Middle East [in macro, not specifically Gaza].
We need more people to share fundraisers instead of only talking about Gaza. Some people think that those in Gaza don’t need money but that’s wrong. Almost everyone lost their source of income while essentials, food & medicine get sold for astronomical prices. So I put my attempt in all social media as I can, in twitter / X, in substack [since October 2023 I put link donation], in bluesky or bsky, in threads, in instagram.
Link to donate World Food Programme - Palestine appeal: click here
[Daniel Brühl]
Most campaign shared or circulated in social media are for REAL people in Gaza. They’re legit. There are a lot of small campaigns for struggling families. This is their only lifeline. By donating & sharing, you are literally making history and alleviating part of their pain
Please do not rely on me alone for sharing your campaign. I’m only 1 person and sometimes I’m not online which is unreliable. I never ignore anybody on purpose but I have a very limited capacity & very little energy and time.
[Refaat Alareer IF I MUST DIE] Refaat Alareer was extremely hungry, November 2023, days before killed by Israel airstrike. If November 2023 already [one-by-one Gazan] extremely hungry, imagine September 2025 or almost 2 years Genocide by Israel in Gaza.
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If you feel powerless to help Gaza, you still has a choice: donate. When so much of what exists is false, authenticity is a powerful weapon we can wield that the state never could. So if you feel lost, hopeless, depressed, angry and afraid, I implore you to return - again and again - to the feeling of love that exists within you that brought you here in the first place. It is only through this that we can remake the world. To redress Gaza’s famine, displacement, and destruction, independent and impartial humanitarian organizations - UN agencies, international and national NGOs - must be allowed to deliver relief at scale. To salvage Gaza’s people from the devastation inflicted by Israel, it must be unified with the West Bank to form an independent and sovereign Palestinian State, not to be parceled and colonized by the former.
Please keep donate Gaza especially if you, as reader, has [background] International Relation [whatever universities]. IR Graduate means [you must, at least] get some semester [about] studying Middle East [in macro, not specifically Gaza].
We need more people to share fundraisers instead of only talking about Gaza. Some people think that those in Gaza don’t need money but that’s wrong. Almost everyone lost their source of income while essentials, food & medicine get sold for astronomical prices. So I put my attempt in all social media as I can, in twitter / X, in substack [since October 2023 I put link donation], in bluesky or bsky, in threads, in instagram.
Link to donate World Food Programme - Palestine appeal: click here
[Daniel Brühl]
Most campaign shared or circulated in social media are for REAL people in Gaza. They’re legit. There are a lot of small campaigns for struggling families. This is their only lifeline. By donating & sharing, you are literally making history and alleviating part of their pain
Please do not rely on me alone for sharing your campaign. I’m only 1 person and sometimes I’m not online which is unreliable. I never ignore anybody on purpose but I have a very limited capacity & very little energy and time.
[Refaat Alareer IF I MUST DIE] Refaat Alareer was extremely hungry, November 2023, days before killed by Israel airstrike. If November 2023 already [one-by-one Gazan] extremely hungry, imagine August 2025.
[RENEW] ‘Babel’, 380 Languages IF I MUST DIE of Refaat [by 3200+ Translators, Socmed Users]
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December 20, 2023
![[RENEW] 'Babel', 380 Languages IF I MUST DIE of Refaat [by 3200+ Translators, Socmed Users]](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jwSl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc25bd266-d4e2-4169-a5e4-e901227a8b0c_725x560.png "[RENEW] 'Babel', 380 Languages IF I MUST DIE of Refaat [by 3200+ Translators, Socmed Users]")
Dec 9th, 2023, New York City, 4.10am —- with update total languages to be 310 as of July 1st, 2024, 3.52am New York City, and then, to be 350 languages as of July 28th, 2024, 1.37am ====== newest update as of July, 3rd, 2025 [actually already 384 languages but let I keep saying 380 to pretty number]
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