by Alex Berenson, Unreported Truths:
PART 1: Her (surprisingly honest) memoir should terrify Democrats. She worked hard, had money and media support, made decent tactical choices – and lost. She wasn’t the problem. So what was?
(PART ONE OF TWO)
The Democrats are in even more trouble than anyone thinks.
Since last November, the left has eagerly sought excuses for Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump. With “Russian collusion” off the table, the post-mortems have focused on Harris’s supposed flaws as a candidate or the theory that — as Bernie Sanders argued again days ago — Harris did not run far enough to the left.
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But Harris’s batty, heartfelt new memoir of the 2024 campaign, 107 Days, makes both of those cases even more implausible than they already were. All that remains is the truth of a party whose policies are ever more unpopular with most Americans.
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(Plausible truths. For pennies a day.)
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I picked up 107 Days on the tiny chance it had evidence that could help Berenson v Biden.1 I wasn’t expecting to like Harris – or a fun read. Most political autobiographies are boring exercises in positioning for future races, book-length campaign speeches.
But Harris is apparently still too bruised from losing to hold her tongue. The weirdest, funniest moment in 107 Days comes as she lets loose at her husband, Doug, for failing to celebrate her 60th birthday when they meet in a Philadelphia hotel:
I was looking forward to a special evening with Doug… [and] wondering what he’d planned for our evening. The simple answer: Nothing. Not a thing…
She gets even angrier when she sees Doug has tried to repurpose an anniversary present for her birthday. The final straw comes when he is watching television in another room in their suite and doesn’t hear her as she asks him for a bath towel:
I called his phone.
His answer: a casual “What’s up?”
Really?! It was a bridge too far.
And then we got into it.
Theoretically, Harris is sharing the birthday night disaster because it ends with her and Doug reminding each other that they’re in the fight together. In reality, though, she sounds like she’s still torqued he didn’t have anything planned for her 60th.
Which is reasonable enough, until one recalls her birthday was Oct. 20 — barely two weeks before Election Day. Both she and Doug had been on the trail for months. Even if Doug had had the time or energy to plan a big night, he presumably figured his wife would just want to relax.
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