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Kamala Harris, 107 Days, Media Reaction and the Dramatic Intersection of Race, Politics, and Gender!
It appears that no one was more taken aback than former Vice President Kamala Harris, whose tight political circle had been enraptured with confidence on election night that they had probably prevailed a victory win during such a frenzied and breakneck campaign. Indeed, such confidence was so evident that celebratory fans were ready to prepare cupcakes reading “Madam President,” served with champagne on ice. “It says a lot about how traumatized we both were by what happened that night that [my husband] Doug and I never discussed it with each other until I sat down to write this book,” Harris reveals in her new memoir, 107 Days, which functions as a reflective and candid postmortem.
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The former Vice President Harris says that the Biden team were cautious of her from the outset, due partly to the dynamic between the president and the vice president coupled with the fact that she challenged Biden about his opposition to federally mandated school bussing during a 2019 democratic candidate debate.
The former VP writes, according to the first book excerpt published by The Atlantic, that although the White House has a huge comms team, getting “anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks…
