Overview

• Harris released her memoir, 107 Days, and is promoting it nationwide while saying another White House run is “not my focus.”
• In the book she says Pete Buttigieg would have been “an ideal partner — if I were a straight white man,” explaining she deemed a gay running mate too risky for voters.
• Buttigieg responded that the account was “news to me,” and Rachel Maddow called Harris’s rationale “hard to hear” during a televised interview.
• Editorial boards and analyses from the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times panned her explanation and tour, with warnings that it undercuts her influence and 2028 viability.
• Republicans intensified their attacks — JD Vance mocked her defense of the 2024 loss — and commentators pointed to polling highlighted by CNN’s Harry Enten showing her favorability has declined.