Kamala Harris, who stepped in as Joe Biden’s successor after he left the 2024 race, recounts her bitter showdown with Donald Trump in her new memoir 107 Days, released September 23. Though Harris fought a close campaign, Trump ultimately won with 49.8% of the popular vote.
The book reveals the clash between their public rivalry and private conversations. While Trump mocked Harris on the campaign trail—once calling her “mentally impaired”—he struck a different tone in private. After surviving a second assassination attempt, he allegedly told Harris, “How do I say bad things about you now? I’m going to tone it down,” even adding that Ivanka Trump was “a big fan.”
Harris wasn’t convinced. “He’s a con man. He’s really good at it,” she wrote.
She also criticizes Biden, describing his decision to seek a second term as “reckless.” Looking back, she questioned her own part in the process: “Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high… It should have been more than a personal decision.”
With blunt insights into both Trump and Biden, 107 Days offers a candid inside look at one of the most heated political chapters in modern U.S. history.
