Harris faults White House in 107 Days, selects Walz as running mate

Former vice president Kamala Harris sharply criticizes the Biden White House and recounts the tumult of the 2024 campaign in excerpts from her forthcoming memoir, 107 Days, saying she was sidelined, insufficiently protected from Republican attacks and conservative media scrutiny, and that aides actively worked to limit her visibility as President Joe Biden's approval ratings slipped. The memoir, whose publisher sets its release for Sept. 23, also discloses Harris's selection of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate after concluding that her first choice, Pete Buttigieg, would have been too risky for the ticket.

In passages published this week, Harris writes that she and others close to Biden believed the president should have withdrawn from the 2024 race earlier. She describes the three and a half months after Biden ended his reelection campaign as intensely chaotic, saying the White House sought to downplay internal frustrations at the time. Her campaign, she recalls, spent roughly $1.5 billion in the final 15 weeks before Election Day but still secured 226 electoral votes as former president Donald Trump reclaimed the White House.

Harris argues that as Biden's...