Democrats fume over Kamala’s ‘unhelpful and divisive’ memoir

In her book, Harris slams her former boss Joe Biden’s White House team, accusing aides of failing to defend her record and intentionally knocking her down.

By Matthew Xiao, The Washington Free Beacon

Kamala Harris’s media blitz to promote her memoir isn’t satisfying fellow Democrats, who call the book “unhelpful and divisive” and warn that she risks looking like a “sore loser,” according to a Wednesday report.

Harris’s memoir 107 Days, released Tuesday, “seems to be unhelpful and divisive in a way that makes it hard for her to be the face of the party as we look to the future,” Michael Hardaway, a former senior adviser to House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.), told Politico.

A former Biden and Harris campaign staffer likewise cautioned that voters could “start seeing her as a sore loser,” which poses a serious political “risk” for Harris.

“It’s pretty crazy [Harris] chose to write a gossip book that prioritizes the pettiness of her politics,” an adviser to a potential 2028 presidential candidate told Politico. “It’s embarrassing for her, and for all Democrats, considering she was the leader of the party less than a year ago.”

The backlash comes as Harris has appeared in multiple interviews this week on ABC and MSNBC to promote her book, which already sparked intraparty scrutiny when excerpts were published earlier this month.

But Harris’s “media blitz is doing little to temper the frustration bubbling among Democrats over her retelling of the 2024 election,” according to Politico.

“Democrats privately worry the parade of scab-picking, backward-looking books isn’t helping the party move on,” the Politico report noted, “especially as its brand sinks to new lows in public polling.”

In her book, Harris slams her former boss Joe Biden’s White House team, accusing aides of failing to defend her record and intentionally knocking her down.

She also attacks Biden’s decision to run for reelection at the age of 81, calling it “recklessness,” an accusation that she repeated in an ABC News interview on Monday.

The book also takes aim at two possible 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls, California governor Gavin Newsom and Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro.

She describes Newsom as “unreachable in the frantic hours after then-president Joe Biden dropped out of the race,” Politico reported.

And, while Shapiro was widely rumored as Harris’s most likely running mate before she picked Minnesota governor Tim Walz, she was “put off” by Shapiro’s “ambition.”

Biden administration aides have responded to Harris’s claims by accusing the former vice president of scapegoating Biden to cover up her own failures.

“Vice President Harris was simply not good at the job,” a former Biden aide told Axios. “She had basically zero substantive role in any of the administration’s key work streams, and instead would just dive bomb in for stilted photo ops that exposed how out of depth she was.”

Despite the negative reaction, a member of Harris’s inner circle told Politico that the former vice president’s book “was not intended as a ‘burn the boats’ exit from politics,” leading some Democrats to wonder if Harris is setting up for a 2028 run.

“If this was intended as a campaign launch, I don’t think it got off the pad,” former Obama adviser David Axelrod told Politico. “If it was intended as a catharsis, only she can know if it was successful.”