107 Days

by Kamala Harris

As president, there was so much more I could do. I wanted to see Gen Z given the tools they needed to become a new Greatest Generation, and I had so many ideas on how to help them. I wanted to create a secretary of culture to uplift the immense creative talent of this country. I wanted to change the way we think about our workforce, to assign value based on an individual’s skill, to open up government jobs to talented people who didn’t necessarily have a college degree. I wanted to increase home ownership. All these things, and so much more, all grounded in the fundamental values of dignity, fairness, and opportunity.

we could've had this but we have a president that can't pronounce acetaminophen and thinks it causes autism :((

It would be the shortest campaign in modern presidential history.

“Be careful what you wish for.” Her tone was desolate. “You’re about to see how horrible the world is.”

The @KamalaHQ TikTok would be a five-person Gen Z team in their twenties. We would give them a few rules of the road and then let them trick it out. Insta would have a Millennial flavor, X would be directed at political junkies, and Facebook would target the Boomers.

I faced an opponent who majored in malice, and I was damned if I was going to join the chorus of cruelty.

I was born into a fight for freedom and stood in that tradition. Freedom to vote, to control one’s own body, to breathe clean air and drink clean water, to be free from the fear of weapons of war on our city streets and in our children’s classrooms. Freedom from anxiety about health care costs, childcare costs, a retirement spent in poverty. Freedom to afford a home, build wealth, provide our kids a good education. The freedom not just to get by but to get ahead. And the freedom to simply be.

Trump got handed $413 million from his daddy—and then his companies went bankrupt four times.)

Many people want to spin up a narrative of some big conspiracy at the White House to hide Joe Biden’s infirmity. Here is the truth as I lived it. Joe Biden was a smart guy with long experience and deep conviction, able to discharge the duties of president. On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump on his best.

I needed to know that my running mate was a person who valued the dignity of everyone and would take a moment to show it.

Had I known he was pulling that juvenile stunt, I would’ve been inclined to step from my car and use a word I believe best pronounced correctly. It begins with an m and ends with ah

As Maya Angelou famously said, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” He had dared to accuse Tim Walz of “stolen valor”—a grievous smear pieced together from the most threadbare scraps.

“Eighty-nine days. We can do anything for eighty-nine days. Tell people, ‘Sleep when you’re dead, you’ve got work to

Elon Musk had set off my spidey senses long before his MAGAfication and his endorsement of Trump. Both SpaceX and Tesla sprang to life in California, and millions of California taxpayers had helped the companies prosper. But when Democrats tried to tie electric car subsidies to workplace standards—Tesla had been sued for labor violations, including racial discrimination and suppressing union organizing efforts—Musk began a rightward pivot.

Our goal in the Build Back Better legislation was to ensure that no parent who wants to work, or who has to work, would end up paying more than 7 percent of their income on childcare. The Republicans, of course, mischaracterized these provisions in the legislation. They call it socialism; I call it capitalism, and a great ROI.

So many people who formed me had died. I believe you can tell a lot about who a person is when you know who their people are.

His perverse notion of what strength looks like is, I believe, out of step with most Americans. I think the true strength of a leader is based not on who you beat down but who you lift up. His is a stunted, narrow definition of strength: the strength of the bully.

His obsession with his crowd sizes led him to take this bait. He had no good explanation as to why he had killed the bill, so he embarked on his “eating the pets” rant. I could not believe he was saying it. The cameras caught my look of incredulity.

It served to make my point about how unhinged he had become.

“Your vote is your voice; your voice is your power. And we won’t let anyone take our power from us.”

“There comes a point when you’ve done all you can do. When your work has been completed… That’s when you just stand. Stand believing and knowing that you’ve done your part.

We need to find a way to reconcile what they heard me say and what they chanted back with the reality we’re facing today. “Sometimes the fight takes a while. That doesn’t mean that we won’t win.”