Overview

• Kamala Harris’s memoir was published Tuesday as she told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow she bears responsibility for not urging Joe Biden to forgo reelection, calling the earlier deference “recklessness” that included her own silence.
• She recounts Biden phoning minutes before her debate with Donald Trump to relay a rumor about Philadelphia power brokers, a call she says angered and distracted her as she prepared to take the stage.
• Harris writes that Pete Buttigieg was her first choice for vice president but that a ticket pairing a Black woman and a gay man felt “too big of a risk,” later adding she may have been too cautious; Buttigieg said he was surprised and argued voters judge results, not categories.
• The book portrays Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as having unrealistic expectations for the vice presidency, a depiction his spokesperson called “simply ridiculous,” and Shapiro separately said Harris will have to answer for not raising concerns about Biden earlier.
• In the interview, Harris labeled President Donald Trump a “tyrant” and urged business and institutional leaders to act as guardrails, while her book argues her compressed 107-day campaign was hampered by limited time and destabilizing episodes tied to Biden’s orbit.