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Editorial: Harris plays the blame game in new book

Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald on

Published in Op Eds

Former Vice President Kamala Harris waits only a few pages into her book to start the blame game.

Special Counsel Robert Hur’s expert opinion that then-President Joe Biden could not be prosecuted for hoarding classified documents because a jury would look at him as a “well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” comes early.

Next up, Hamas.

The former VP explains in the same paragraph that Hamas “viciously attacked Israel” on Oct. 7, the day before Biden sat for a deposition with Hur.

Next up, now-President Donald Trump.

“Trump’s ravings had been getting progressively crazier,” Harris quickly adds.

Next up, her boss.

Harris threw Biden under the bus for his disastrous debate performance against Trump, especially when he claimed “no one had died in wars overseas on his watch.” We all know how terrible that answer was, considering 13 Marines died in the hasty pullout of Afghanistan. “How could he overlook that day?” Harris writes in her new book, “107 Days.” She even put that in italics.

Next up, social media.

Harris points out that aides in the room watching the debate were glued to their phones, scrolling through all the “disaster,” “train wreck,” and “embarrassment” comments popping up across the nation by flabbergasted supporters.

Once you read beyond her desire to cook pancakes for her young nieces, it’s everyone else’s fault for thrusting her into the campaign cauldron. She admits early on that Trump was “a fighter” and approached the campaign that way. And that’s bad?

Harris needs to stand on her own two feet, and her book does not set that tone.

 

The New York Post wrote on Tuesday that, in promoting her book on MSNBC, Harris has publicly admitted to having doubts about how she handled the political earthquake. Biden dropped out, she was tossed in the ring, and Trump was raring to go.

It clearly shows Harris is not the answer Democrats are desperately searching for in 2028.

Harris said the post-debate spin felt like a “death march.”

Putting the gross hyperbole aside, if you can, it wasn’t a death march but a dose of reality. Biden and his ilk were hanging on because “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Harris still does not know how to separate herself from the rarified pack she travels in. She can name-drop all she wants, but she needs to stand alone — or move aside.

Life as a vice president in any administration appears to be a humbling existence. JD Vance is proving that this may be the case for others and he seems to be able to navigate beyond second-fiddle status as Trump’s VP.

But Harris is a failed presidential candidate, and a book filled with excuses won’t win her any election.

Harris adds in chapters that follow how she cracked open her phone list and started calling … Hillary Clinton … Barack Obama … Jim Clyburn … Bernie Sanders … Nancy Pelosi … “I went from call to call with the clarity that comes when stakes are high,” she pens.

Yet, does she note that all her calls were to the same tired lineup of “Yes” men and women?

Harris notes that she admires those who speak the truth, so here’s a truism: This country needs to keep on track and fix the immigration system, the trade imbalance, our place in the world, and end senseless slaughter, and Kamala Harris will never be the person to do it, even if she were given 1,460 days.

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