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Harris Continues Book Tour

Kamala Harris' post-defeat book tour was supposed to be a carefully choreographed rehabilitation effort — a curated sequence of friendly interviews and nostalgic reflections designed to rewrite the history of her failed 2024 presidential campaign. The book, 107 Days, was intended to signal closure, resilience, and wisdom gained. But what the former vice president did not anticipate was that her own party's activist base would turn her publicity tour into a reckoning.

In city after city, Harris has been met not with applause, but with fury — and not from the political right, but from the hard-left. On Saturday in Chicago, she was ambushed by pro-Hamas protesters who shouted down her event, accusing her of complicity in “genocide” and branding her a “war criminal.” The outbursts were not isolated; they echoed similar disruptions at her New York City book launch weeks earlier. In both cases, Harris appeared stunned, caught flat-footed, and unable to control the narrative in a room supposedly full of sympathizers.


The irony here is remarkable. These are not MAGA protestors. These are the very activists Harris once leaned on for support — part of the same left-wing coalition that played an outsized role in Democratic primary politics over the past decade. Now, they’re holding her accountable for what they see as complicity in the Biden administration’s foreign policy decisions — especially its support for Israel. Harris’ response? A deflection: “I’m not the President of the United States.”

It’s a familiar refrain — not just from Harris, but from many public officials seeking to escape accountability without alienating their base. But it doesn’t work, because Harris was second in command during those decisions. Her statements were not private opinions; they were the voice of the administration. And her attempts to distance herself now come across as both disingenuous and desperate.


Even her comments on Trump’s role in the historic Israel-Hamas peace deal were laced with evasion. While prominent Democrats like Hillary Clinton offered qualified praise for the agreement, Harris refused to acknowledge the achievement, choosing instead to issue vague criticisms that seemed aimed more at Israel than at Hamas. It was a striking contrast — not just to Trump’s accomplishment, but to the bipartisan clarity that peace should be celebrated, regardless of who brokered it.

Harris' inability to either defend or disown the policies she once helped implement has become the central flaw in her post-campaign narrative. She wants the empathy of the outsider while retaining the résumé of the insider. She wants to be seen as a victim of activist backlash while still claiming moral authority over the decisions that inspired it.


And when the hecklers don’t let her finish her speech, she complains that she’s not being allowed to talk — not recognizing that many Americans felt the exact same way during her campaign: talked at, not with.

Written by Arthur Higgens - October 14, 2025