Harris has been quiet since being thrashed by Donald Trump. But now she’s back in the spotlight and not for good reason.
Because she resurfaced to make the most humiliatingly moronic statement.
In a stunning twist, former Vice President Kamala Harris was reportedly caught off guard by her 2024 election drubbing at the hands of President Donald Trump, having swallowed the hype that victory was in the bag, according to a revealing new book.
“She was completely shocked, and [Harris’ running mate] Tim Walz was shocked,” The Hill’s Amie Parnes dished on the podcast “Somebody’s Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri,” which dropped Thursday.
Parnes unpacked the juicy details from her latest book, FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, co-written with NBC’s Jonathan Allen. The tome dives into the chaotic 2024 presidential race, spotlighting the upheaval after former President Biden bailed on his re-election bid, leaving Harris to helm the Democratic ticket amid a storm of uncertainty.
Painting a vivid picture of election night disarray, Parnes described Walz holed up in his hotel room, “stunned.”
“He has no words. And people are kind of explaining to him, same thing with her. And she’s like, are you sure? Have we done a recount? Should we do a recount?” Parnes recounted on the podcast, capturing the disbelief that gripped Harris and Walz as their dreams crumbled.
“They thought that they were going to win. And so, you know, when they come back now and say, ‘Oh no, we didn’t really have a chance.’ No, that’s not what they were thinking. They thought they were going to win,” she emphasized, dismantling any post-loss spin.
Parnes revealed that Harris campaign staffers felt “gaslit” by their higher-ups, who’d fed them rosy assurances that “things were looking good” for Harris—only to watch it all fall apart.
Harris herself “bought the hype” that she was outperforming reality, Parnes noted, pointing to a campaign intoxicated by its own buzz.
“Kamala Harris was looking at her crowd size, and they felt like the vibe was strong and people were saying, ‘Oh, we have more boots on the ground. We’re doing better in fundraising,’” Parnes explained. “And she bought all of that. She bought the hype, and so did a lot of people in the campaign.”
The book dishes that Harris later griped to pals, insisting she could’ve clinched it with more time—or if Biden hadn’t hogged the spotlight by running again.
“She could have won, she told friends, if only the election was later in the calendar — or she got in earlier. In other words, Joe Biden was to blame,” the authors penned, subtly framing Harris as quick to dodge accountability.
Some of Harris’ buddies agreed, whispering that Biden’s baggage and her late start doomed her shot—though not everyone was sold on the time excuse.
“That is f—ing bonkers,” one Harris confidant reportedly scoffed. “If Election Day was October first, we might have actually somehow pulled it off. Shorter was actually better, not longer.”
A Harris advisor cut deeper, arguing the real issue wasn’t the clock—it was her lack of heft.
“I don’t think we needed more time… We needed more substance. And she did not have more substance,” the advisor bluntly stated in the book, a quiet jab at Harris’ lightweight tenure.
Adding fuel to the fire, the book spills that former President Obama wasn’t sold on Harris either, dragging his feet on an endorsement because he doubted she could take down Trump.
“He didn’t think that she was the best choice for Democrats, and he worked really behind the scenes for a long time to try to have a mini-primary, or an open convention, or a mini-primary leading to an open convention, did not have faith in her ability to win the election,” co-author Jonathan Allen told MSNBC this week.
“As it turned out, she didn’t win, but he was really working against her,” Allen added, hinting at a party elite skeptical of Harris’ hype-driven rise.
