Former Vice President Kamala Harris has little regrets about the failed presidential bid
Former Vice President Kamala Harris offers a vibrant defense for her short, failed 2024 presidential bid, regrets voters’ loss of faith in institutions and urges Democrats not to be deceived on Monday when they speak at her first home country’s celebration of her new book on Roll Road Racing.
She seems to have little responsibility for the losses of President Trump among the 2,000 people facing in Wiltern, Los Angeles in 2024.
“I wrote this book for many reasons, but mainly to remind us that this book is unprecedented,” Harris said. “Think about it. The current U.S. president is running for re-election, and the election decided not to run three and a half months before, and then a current vice president picked up his cloak and was 107 days away from the former U.S. president who had been running for 10 years.”
She dismissed Trump’s claim that his 2024 victory was so overwhelming that voters had clear mission
“By the way, can history reflect the fact that this is the closest thing to the presidential election?” Harris said, as the audience cheered, Harris stood on the stage. “It’s important for us to remember this so that we know where we’ve been to decide and draw our place.”
Trump defeated Harris with more than 2.3 million votes, accounting for about 1.5% of the popular vote – but Republicans swept the Election Academy vote to win a 312-226 title. Other presidential games are also closer, especially the 2000 race between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore. Gore won the vote with nearly 544,000 votes, but Bush won the Election Academy vote 271-266 in a deeply controversial election that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
Harris was blamed for failing to connect with voters’ economic pain in the states in the Midwest and Southwest battlefields, criticizing former President Biden for his administration’s priorities. She said she could have solved the kitchen table problem before legislation on infrastructure and semiconductor manufacturing.
“I would have completed my family work first, it’s affordable childcare, paid leave, extended child tax credits,” she said, a fundamental problem facing Americans, she said.
Harris talked about her book as she talked to Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pump” Sullivan.
Attendees paid up to hundreds or thousands of dollars in tickets to the event at the resale market, part of a multi-city book tour that began last week in New York City. The incident on the East Coast was interrupted by protesters regarding Israel’s actions in Gaza. Harris is traveling across the country and promoting her book overseas.
The former vice president’s book tour is expected to be a major currency maker.
Harris’ publisher recently added another “107 Days” event in Wiltern, Los Angeles on October 28.
The Bay Area locals talked about the current news incident during her appearance, which lasted for more than an hour.
Regarding the imminent federal shutdown, Harris said Democrats must make it clear that such a fault is Republicans because they control the White House, the Senate and the House.
“They are in power,” she said. Her party must firmly oppose efforts to reduce health care, especially the Affordable Care Act.
She also dabbled in Trump’s social media posts, which involved videos produced by Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries. The video claims show that Schumer said Latinos and Black voters hate Democrats, so the party must provide free health care for undocumented residents so they can support the party until they learn English and “realize that they hate us too.” Jeffries appears to be wearing a sweater as Mexican wandering music plays in the background.
“This is a teenager,” Harris said. Trump is “just an imbalanced person, he is incompetent, he has no one.”
Harris didn’t talk about the issues she wrote in the book that shocked Democrats, such as not choosing former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg to be her campaign partner because she didn’t believe Americans were ready to support a mixed-race woman and gay man. After Biden decided not to seek reelection, she has not mentioned her narrative about her contact with Gov. Gavin Newsom, and he did not respond to her other than saying he was hiking.
Harris lamented the demands of citizens and business leaders for the Trump administration.
Among Trump’s goals is a law firm working for the enemies he perceives.
“I almost predicted everything,” she said. “What I didn’t predict was the surrender of their television or newspaper universities, law firms, media companies. I didn’t predict.”
She said that despite her entire career in public service, her interactions with private sector leaders led her to believe that they will be “in the guardians of our democratic nations.”
“I’m disappointed with those powerful, deeply disappointed by those who bent over at the feet of this tyrant,” Harris said.
Harris did not mention that her husband Doug Emhoff was a partner at law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, which earlier this year struck a deal with the White House to provide at least $100 million in unpaid legal work during the Republican Party’s time at the White House and beyond.
In April, the company reached a deal with the Trump administration, and the president said their services would be dedicated to helping veterans, Venus families, law enforcement officers and first responders, and the law firm agreed to fight anti-Semitism rather than engaging in the “DEI” effort.
Emhoff, who joined the law firm in January and is now also among the faculty and staff at the University of Southern California (USC), condemned his law firm’s consent with the government.
Emhoff, who attended the event, took a photo with Harris supporters, who declined comments on the event.
“I’m just here to support my wife,” he said.
