Kamala Harris wanted to use her new memoir 107 Days to reclaim the narrative of her failed 2024 presidential run. Instead, her book tour has gone off the rails, with protesters interrupting her events, headlines mocking her for “celebrating an L,” and Democrats openly fuming at the score-settling tone of her writing.
The tour kicked off in New York, where pro-Palestinian activists shouted her down before she could even get into her stump speech. Harris tried to frame herself as more sympathetic to Gaza than President Biden had been, saying, “I was not the president. I couldn’t make the decision. But I made my position clear.” The line fell flat, and the interruption set the tone for the rest of her rollout.
But the bigger problem isn’t the protests, it’s Democrats themselves. They’re furious about what she chose to put in print. Harris calls Biden’s decision to run again in 2024 “recklessness.” She attacks governors like Gavin Newsom and Josh Shapiro, brushes off the likes of Pete Buttigieg, and peppers the book with petty complaints that read more like a gossip column than a memoir.
Party insiders aren’t amused. One longtime Democratic strategist told Politico, “If there’s a political strategy here, it’s a bad one. There’s an awful lot of grievances and finger-pointing that really doesn’t serve a political agenda.” Another Democrat put it more bluntly: “It’s embarrassing for her, and for all Democrats… she chose to write a gossip book that prioritizes the pettiness of her politics.”
Even liberal commentators are mocking her. Stephen A. Smith dismissed her book as finger-pointing in “everybody else’s direction instead of yourself.” Online, critics derided the whole spectacle: “She’s doing a tour about how she lost?” one viral post read. “Never seen someone celebrating an L like that lol.”
Instead of repairing her standing in the party, Harris seems to be torching it. The book has been described as “divisive,” “petty,” and “good-riddance to politics” all in the same week. Each stop on her tour looks less like a comeback and more like a traveling reminder of why Democrats soured on her in the first place.
What was supposed to be a legacy-building exercise has turned into a punchline. Harris might have wanted a comeback, but the result is a very public implosion that has her fellow Democrats shaking their heads and laughing at the mess.