“Real Time” show host Bill Maher had the most comprehensive summary of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ new book which he says should have been titled: Everyone Sucks But Me.
“Kamala Harris’s new memoir of the ’24 election is called 107 Days, but should have been called Everyone Sucks but Me,” Maher quipped, earning applause from his guest, CNN political commentator and former Obama adviser Van Jones. “‘107 Days’ is a victim’s title because, get it, she only had 107 days to win. Yeah. Uh, and a billion and a half dollars and a built-in army of about 75 million people who’d vote for any human-adjacent life form that wasn’t Trump.”
Harris’ book, released in late September, recounts her brief 2024 presidential campaign and ultimate loss to President Donald Trump. Maher continued, “But in ‘107 Days,’ nothing is ever Kamala’s fault. Biden lets her down by not stepping down sooner. Pouty face emoji. Gavin Newsom, he was asked for his endorsement, but texted, ‘hiking, will call back,’ but then never did. And then he didn’t even ask her to prom.”
In her memoir, Harris blamed several fellow Democrats for her failure to secure the presidency. Harris called out California Gov. Gavin Newsom for his lack of support by actually releasing a text message in which he blew her off: describing her attempts to secure endorsements after President Biden exited the race. One of her notes about Newsom read, “Hiking. Will call back. (He never did.)”
Maher also criticized Harris for admitting that she declined to select former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate, calling it a “risk” because he is gay.
“America itself lets Kamala down by not being ready for the running mate she really wanted, Pete Buttigieg. So she’s stuck with the Home Depot paint salesman, and the rest is history,” Maher joked, referring to her eventual choice, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
In 107 Days, Harris wrote that Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner — if I were a straight White man.” She added, “But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk. And I think Pete also knew that — to our mutual sadness.”