Overview
- At Manhattan’s Town Hall, pro-Palestinian protesters repeatedly interrupted the first stop of Kamala Harris’s tour for her memoir, 107 Days.
- Security escorted out at least three protesters as the nearly 1,500-person audience booed and chanted over the disruptions.
- Harris told hecklers, “I’m not president right now, there’s nothing I can do,” a line captured in a Washington Post video shared by reporter Sabrina Rodríguez that drew about one million views.
- She said she raised humanitarian concerns about Gaza in private White House meetings as vice president but stressed she did not have decision-making authority.
- Harris criticized President Donald Trump for giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “blank check,” while demonstrations outside the venue and growing Democratic critiques of her book’s tone added to the fallout.