Former Vice President Kamala Harris visited The View on Tuesday, Sept. 23, where she discussed her loss in the 2024 Presidential election and her campaign memoir, 107 Days. Harris opened up about numerous topics, including Election Night and why she feels Donald Trump won, and she lost, the race.
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Harris noted that, until she wrote the chapter in the book addressing those events:
In fact, Doug [Emhoff] and I, my husband, it wasn’t until I was writing that chapter that we had ever talked about Election Night. night. We had never talked about Election Night. It was that traumatic.
Once she realized she was losing the race, the then-Vice President felt a deep sense of loss. She explained:
But that night, I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died. And the pain, it was not at all about losing a race; I knew what it was going to mean for the country. I was going to say ‘for the family.’ That’s how I felt for the country. I knew what it was going to mean, but I knew, and all I could say over and over again was, ‘My God, my God, my God.’
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Ana Navarro asked, if she had to pinpoint a reason why she lost, what she would suggest. Harris replied:
There are many factors, I think, that played into the outcome of that election, but I think probably one of the biggest in my mind is we just didn’t have enough time.
She went on:
One of the reasons I wrote the book is—this is unprecedented. Think about this, that there is a race for President of the United States. The current, sitting President [Joe Biden] is running for re-election. Three-and-a-half month from the election, he decides not to run. The sitting Vice President then takes the mantle, running against a former President of the United States who had been running for ten years, with 107 days until the election, and, by the way, another piece of what is unprecedented and a bit historical about that race—it is the closest Presidential race in the twenty-first century in terms of the outcome.
Watch the conversation below.
This story was originally reported by Daytime Confidential on Sep 24, 2025, where it first appeared in the Talk Shows section. Add Daytime Confidential as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
