Kamala Harris has taken the well-worn political playbook of “blame everyone else” and turned it into a 400-page therapy session.
The first excerpts of her new book are out, and they reveal a former vice president who seems determined to burn down every bridge left standing after her catastrophic 2024 run. Joe Biden? Reckless. Jill Biden? Enabler. The White House staff? Saboteurs. The press corps? Biased. Fox News? Mean. The only person spared Kamala’s wrath is Kamala herself.
The centerpiece of her grievance tour is the accusation that Joe Biden’s “ego” kept him in the race too long, and that Jill Biden was just as responsible. Harris says she couldn’t tell him to step aside without appearing “self-serving.” Yet her telling assumes that if Biden had made way, she would have waltzed to victory.
That fantasy ignores the inconvenient truth: Harris never proved she could handle the national stage. Her approval ratings tanked the longer voters saw her. Her 2020 campaign imploded before Iowa. Her 2024 campaign, even after Biden’s exit, lasted about as long as a firework—and fizzled just as quickly.
Sunny Hostin really latches on to Kamala’s whing about the Biden team not backing her up and seeing her as a threat. pic.twitter.com/oQysbhjbFp
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 10, 2025
Then come the complaints about Fox News mocking her laugh, her tone, and her background. Harris fumes that the White House didn’t push back enough on her behalf. She wanted more introductions at events, more glowing coverage, more defenses against “untrue attacks.” But the problem wasn’t inadequate spin. The problem was the candidate. Harris’ unlikability wasn’t manufactured by the right; it was revealed by her own performances.
She goes further, alleging Biden’s staff actively fed negative stories about her. She insists she was chastised for giving a speech “too well.” She frames staff turnover as the product of gender stereotypes rather than the more likely explanation: poor leadership. She paints herself as the victim of double standards while conveniently ignoring the reality that she enjoyed constant, breathless media praise simply for being the “first” at every rung of the political ladder.
And yet, the excerpts make something else plain: Harris is plotting her return. Every anecdote, every complaint, every bit of revisionist history is aimed at clearing the runway for 2028. Her narrative is simple: she wasn’t the problem, Biden was. She wasn’t a weak candidate, she was undermined. She didn’t lose, she was cheated out of victory by bad staff, bad optics, and bad timing.
But the math is simple. Harris had money, media support, and institutional backing. She had a billion-dollar war chest and a press corps desperate to crown her. And she still lost. Not because Joe Biden ran too long. Not because she wasn’t given enough stage time. She lost because when voters saw her, they didn’t want her.
