Democratic presidential candidates who lose don’t die, they just fade away until it’s time for a book tour. Kamala Harris is back on the media circuit, and Democrats are wishing she wasn’t.

As more details come forward from her newly released book, Kamala Harris is busy pushing her version of events, and creating some heartburn for the Democrats that they really would rather not deal with right now. Many of the details we learned about from other books, but Kamala is giving them new life in hers. Having them rehashed at the same time that the House Oversight Committee is digging through the Biden White House autopen and “Politburo” scandal, is reinforcing the idea to the American public that, no matter people’s issues or complaints about Donald Trump, the Biden White House was a insane asylum of incompetent tool bags.

So far, Kamala Harris has revealed that she thought the American people were too bigoted to accept Pete Buttigieg as a vice presidential candidate, that she knew she couldn’t deal with Josh Shapiro because he was “too ambitious,” so she “settled” on Tim Walz – whom she initially claimed was her “gut decision” – as vice president. She also has inadvertently revealed that she can’t think on her feet (a simple question about her getting enough sleep merited attention in the book because she wasn’t prepared for it), and existed in a perpetual state of frustrated “loyalty” to Joe Biden that resulted in her not trying to talk him out of running.

That frustration must have existed from nearly day one in the Biden White House, as Kamala Harris reveals in her book (which was confirmed by other books) that her brother-in-law had an entire transition plan prepared if Biden was out of the picture.

While the Biden campaign maintained that he was running for re-election until the moment he suspended his campaign, Harris’ brother-in-law, Tony West, created a succession plan long before the president’s consequential announcement, according to Harris.

“A year earlier, he had started what he called the ‘Red File,'” Harris wrote in her book. “With a president in his eighties, he suggested, it would be malpractice on my part to be unprepared if, God forbid, something should happen.”

While the “Red File” was clearly started to deal with Biden either dying or being incapacitated, Tony West eventually began preparing for the dropout scenario.

West had made a list of the first dozen calls to world leaders and political leaders, a plan for when to release her first statement and the rules of the transition. The “Red File” only grew as the pressure for Biden to drop out intensified, Harris said.

In the event of “such a traumatic moment,” Harris said, West explained to her that it would be “prudent to have a plan for the first twenty-four to forty-eight hours, so people don’t have to make a lot of decisions in the pressure of a crisis.”

Harris said she didn’t want to think about such a reality, despite being the vice president to a president in his eighties, so she “left it in his hands.”

Kamala admitting that she “didn’t want to think” about Biden either dying or dropping out of the race is absolute political malpractice, and highlights, yet again, how she depended on other people to do the work for her. She was vice president of the United States and she lacked the foresight to consider what would happen if a situation arose that would either make her the president or the nominee. Suddenly, her abysmal campaign performances make much more sense, don’t they?

The media blitz is peeling the scabs off for the Democrats, who are not pleased with the re-emergence of the former vice president, and her attempt to make a buck off of the 2024 campaign.

“In an era where Democrats need all hands on deck in the fight to protect the country and the constitution from the lawlessness of the Trump administration, she had a real opportunity to be a critical voice in the resistance,” said Michael Hardaway, a Democratic strategist who served as a senior adviser to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. “This book seems to be unhelpful and divisive in a way that makes it hard for her to be the face of the party as we look to the future.”

More than six months after her losing election — and with Harris now back in the spotlight — her book, “107 Days,” has reopened wounds in a party still divided over who or what is primarily to blame for their sweeping losses and President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

Harris, for her part, argued on ABC’s “The View” on Tuesday that though “there were many factors,” ultimately, “we just didn’t have enough time.”

It’s not the first time a political memoir has prompted eyerolls. Hillary Clinton’s book tour in 2017 triggered a collective groan among infuriated Democrats, including one top donor who told POLITICO at the time “she should just zip it.” Biden, struggling to sell his post-presidency legacy, is expected to release his own White House memoir. Democrats privately worry the parade of scab-picking, backward-looking books isn’t helping the party move on, especially as its brand sinks to new lows in public polling.

“At a time when people are looking for a vision and leadership … and want to see leaders rise to the level of threat facing the country, it’s pretty crazy she chose to write a gossip book that prioritizes the pettiness of her politics,” said an adviser to a potential 2028 candidate granted anonymity to discuss the issue candidly. “It’s embarrassing for her, and for all Democrats, considering she was the leader of the party less than a year ago.”

Kamala Harris being back on the media’s radar is highlighting the dramatic leadership vacuum in the Democrat party. If she still believes that “she didn’t have enough time,” then someone ought to remind her that during the 2020 campaign, when there was plenty of time, she dropped out before the first primary. There is zero chance that she survives another Democrat primary and comes out the nominee. There are other Democrats that will absolutely have their proverbial knives out for Harris – Gavin Newsom and AOC among them – and thanks to Kamala’s loss and Biden’s rapid decline and near-complete disappearance off the stage (until his own ghost-written book comes out), the Democrats are essentially leaderless. This vacuum has opened up the chance for the socialist left, championed by Bernie Sanders with AOC and Zohran Mamdani as the front-facing leaders, to fast-forward the hostile takeover of the party itself. The base has become radicalized, and now they expect their candidates to be radical leftists as well. Kamala Harris is a dedicated leftist, and was vice president in an increasingly leftist administration, but she will not be “pure” enough for the Democratic Socialists.

This book is Kamala Harris’s swan song in politics. If she attempts to run again, she will find that Democrat voters – who rejected her once in 2020, and didn’t get the chance to vote for her in a primary in 2024 – are not going to be forgiving or forgetting. She had the nomination handed to her on a silver platter, and the odds that she gets a do-over are sinking rapidly. Every time she or Joe Biden pop up, it shackles the Democrats to everything that happened during their administration, and they are forced to relive everything while the Democrat party ship is being hijacked by the socialist wing. No wonder the mainstream Democrats (what’s left of them) are agitated about Kamala Harris and her book tour.

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