President Donald Trump ripped into Jill Biden for claiming former President Joe Biden had a stroke during the disastrous presidential debate that led to the end of his campaign. 
Trump said that the former first lady should have rushed to the debate stage to check on Biden if she really thought he had a stroke, as she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-bidens-latest-stroke-claim-runs-into-one-big-problem?author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Jill+Biden%E2%80%99s+Latest+%E2%80%98Stroke%E2%80%99+Claim+Runs+Into+One+Big+Problem">claimed</a> during a recent interview with CBS News. 
“Jill Biden is now out there finally admitting that she did NOT know what went wrong with Sleepy Joe during our spectacular, and highly rated, 2024 Presidential Debate, where Joe was not exactly performing to the highest level of debate standards,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116657564100142546">posted</a> on Truth Social on Friday morning. “She said that she thought he was having a ‘stroke,’ and various other really bad things, and yet never rushed onto the stage to help her troubled husband, as any good wife would do.”
During the debate, Jill Biden frequently stumbled through his answers and struggled to appear coherent. At the time, his wife said that he did a “great job,” &#8220;answered every question,” and “knew all the facts.” 
Yet in a viral clip from her interview with CBS News, she claimed to have a very different reaction. 
“I was frightened,” she said. “I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. When I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
Trump added that Jill Biden should have mentioned how well he performed during the debate. 
“The only thing she failed to mention was how well I was doing prior to his near total collapse. In other words, as many have asked, did my strong performance in that debate cause him to plain and simple ‘choke,’ leading to his ignominious defeat, or were other reasons the cause? Nobody else knows the answer to that, BUT I DO!!!” Trump said. 
Biden has received backlash from both Democrats and Republicans for her claims, with many commentators accusing her of lying. 
Pressure quickly mounted on Biden after the debate. He ended his campaign soon after, paving the way for former Vice President Kamala Harris to quickly lock up the Democrat nomination without any major opposition.

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Former first lady Jill Biden was accused of lying after changing her tune on her husband&#8217;s disastrous debate performance against President Donald Trump. 
Biden told CBS News in an interview clip released Wednesday that she was “frightened” by President Joe Biden’s performance and thought he was having a stroke. After a video of her remarks went viral, commenters quickly pointed out that she claimed her husband did a &#8220;great job&#8221; and had answered all the questions immediately after the debate on June 27, 2024.
“I was frightened,” she told CBS News. “I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. When I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death.”
This contrasted with her reaction immediately after the debate when she said, “Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question. You knew all the facts!&#8221;
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Responding to the former first lady’s claims, New York Post columnist Miranda Devine noted that she would have made him go to a hospital immediately after the debate. 
“Sorry but this is such BS. If she genuinely was ‘frightened’ that he was having a stroke then any rational wife would have insisted he go straight to the hospital,” Devine <a href="https://x.com/mirandadevine/status/2059840300445536520">said</a>. “Instead she dragged him off to a Waffle House and patronized him on stage like a baby: ‘Joe – you did such a great job.’ We saw his incapacity for years. Don&#8217;t try to rewrite history.”
Axios reporter Alex Thompson <a href="https://x.com/AlexThomp/status/2059758616131891234">quoted</a> a former Biden official who responded to the clip, telling him that &#8220;she’s lying.&#8221;
Pressure mounted on Biden to end his re-election bid after he muddled his way through a debate performance filled with verbal miscues and nonsensical answers. After the performance a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if Biden had undergone a neurological scan. 
Jean-Pierre downplayed concerns, saying that Biden had a “bad night.” 
“We understand that it was a bad night and the president has spoken to this. And he understands that,” she said at the time. “And so, I cannot speak to anything beyond what I just shared. The president has regular annual physicals that we release in a thorough report. We&#8217;re going to continue to do that. I don&#8217;t have anything else beyond that.”

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Former first lady Jill Biden said she feared President Joe Biden was &#8220;having a stroke&#8221; during his disastrous 2024 debate performance against Donald Trump.
“I was frightened,” she told CBS News. “I had never, ever seen Joe like that before or since. When I watched it, I thought, &#8216;Oh my God, he’s having a stroke.&#8217; And it scared me to death.&#8221;
CBS released a 30-second preview clip on Wednesday ahead of the full interview, which will be broadcast on Sunday.
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“As I watched it, I thought, ‘Oh, my God, he’s having a stroke.’ And it scared me to death,” Biden told CBS News Sunday Morning’s Rita Braver in an… <a href="https://t.co/1wS5oGDYyX">pic.twitter.com/1wS5oGDYyX</a>
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Despite privately fearing something was seriously wrong, Jill Biden publicly praised the president after the debate.
“Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question,” she told him on stage afterward. 
Biden’s performance sparked immediate concern from both Democrats and Republicans and intensified scrutiny over his mental and physical fitness for office. 
CNN anchor Jake Tapper later co-authored a book about the &#8220;cover-up&#8221; of Biden’s cognitive decline, with many Democrats viewing the debate as a turning point of the 2024 campaign.
Weeks later, Biden ended his re-election bid, leaving Vice President Kamala Harris with just 107 days to run for the highest office. 
Since leaving the White House, the Bidens have kept a relatively low public profile. Earlier this year, Joe Biden disclosed that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer.

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Democrats finally released their long-awaited 2024 election autopsy — and it reads less like a postmortem on President Donald Trump and more like a realization that voters may simply not like them anymore.
Buried inside the 192-page report are some brutal admissions about former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic brand, and the party’s growing disconnect from average Americans.
&#8220;The sad truth is Democrats have lost ground at every level from inconsistent messaging and improper planning, even as the policies the Party advances continue to earn voter support at the ballot box,&#8221; <a href="https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/May-20-2026.pdf">the report said</a>.
The document repeatedly suggests Democrats leaned way too heavily on “Trump bad” messaging while failing to give voters a compelling reason to vote for Harris. One especially rough section says Harris struggled to define herself beyond “not Trump” and “prosecutor vs. felon,&#8221; putting blame on the Biden White House.
&#8220;The national campaign did not effectively drive Trump’s negatives, and the White House did not effectively support Vice President Harris over three and [a] half years to improve her standing before the candidate switch,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;The idea Trump’s negatives were &#8216;baked in&#8217; is a major failure of analysis and reality&#8230;&#8221; 
The autopsy also openly acknowledges that Harris had a significant issue with male voters.
One section, titled “The Male Voter Problem,” points out that down-ballot Democrats consistently outperformed Harris with men. North Carolina Democrat Josh Stein, for example, won 51% of male voters while Harris managed just 40%.
And it gets worse.
The autopsy admits Harris struggled badly with young men, Latino men, irregular voters, rural voters, and working-class Americans. At one point, the report flatly says Democrats suffered from a “persistent inability or unwillingness to listen to all voters.” Another section warns that millions of Americans “do not see themselves reflected in the America of the Democratic Party.”
There are also some surprisingly direct shots at identity politics.
One passage praises candidates who focused “less on abstract issues and identity politics” and more on public safety, affordability, housing, and the economy.
The report found that the Trump attack ads were highly effective, particularly the “Kamala is for they/them” spot, with Democratic pollsters noting the campaign was effectively boxed in by footage of her own remarks showing Harris out of touch with voters focused on their pocketbooks.
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The document repeatedly undercuts itself in real time with editor notes and annotations like “No evidence provided,” “Analysis not supported,” and “Contradicts public reporting.”
DNC Chair Ken Martin defended releasing the report after delaying it for months, telling CNN: “After last November’s massive Democratic wins, I didn’t want to create a distraction, but by not putting the report out, I ended up creating an even bigger distraction.”
With nationwide redistricting underway, the report fired bleak warning shots for Democrats as more Americans continue fleeing blue states and voting with their feet.
&#8220;The future could become even more difficult. Demographic and population projections indicate an accelerating population shift away from traditionally Democratic states,&#8221; the report found. 
&#8220;With radical midterm redistricting efforts underway, the writing is on the wall, and the call is coming from inside the House. We either adapt to the changing conditions of the arena, or history will leave us behind.&#8221;

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Democrats’ refusal to release the party’s long-promised autopsy of the 2024 election defeat is quickly becoming a fresh fault line inside the party, one that now directly intersects with former Vice President Kamala Harris and the emerging 2028 presidential field.
Even as Democratic National Committee Chairman Ken Martin continues to defend the decision to keep the 200-page report private, Harris is signaling behind closed doors that she has no objection to making the findings public, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2028-election/kamala-harris-dnc-release-autopsy-report-2024-campaign-rcna343453">NBC News</a>.
The divide comes as Harris appears to be laying the groundwork for another White House campaign following her 2024 loss to President Donald Trump. Harris has remained active on the national stage through speeches, donor outreach, and a nationwide tour promoting her memoir “107 Days,” while also privately consulting allies about a potential 2028 run.
But the unresolved fight over the party’s postmortem has become a growing source of frustration among Democratic strategists, donors, and activists still searching for answers after Democrats lost the White House and Republicans secured unified control of Washington in 2024.
Martin has <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5858141-democrats-demand-2024-election-autopsy/">argued</a> that releasing the full report would amount to “navel-gazing” and distract Democrats from the 2026 midterms and the next presidential cycle. In recent interviews, he insisted there was “no smoking gun” in the document and said the party has already begun implementing lessons learned internally.
Critics inside the party, however, argue that withholding the report has only fueled suspicion. “It raises more questions than it answers to conduct an autopsy and then not release it,” Democratic strategist Christy Setzer said. Others within the party have warned the secrecy risks deepening distrust among Democratic voters already frustrated with party leadership after 2024.
The debate also carries direct political implications for Harris, who continues leading many early Democratic primary polls despite lingering questions about her failed 2024 campaign. Some Democrats believe a full public accounting of the campaign’s decisions — including its messaging, spending, and handling of issues like Israel and Gaza — could complicate another Harris run.
Questions surrounding the Harris campaign’s massive spending operation have also lingered well into 2026. Democrats and donors have continued pressing for answers after Harris and the DNC burned through roughly $1.5 billion during the condensed 107-day campaign, only to lose every battleground state to Trump. 
Internal documents also reportedly showed serious outreach problems, including claims that despite hundreds of millions of voter contact attempts, only a small percentage resulted in actual conversations with voters.
Others including Bernie Sanders delegate Norman Solomon <a href="https://www.salon.com/2026/05/05/the-democratic-national-committee-is-boosting-kamala-harris-for-2028/">argue</a> that shielding the report creates the appearance that party leadership is protecting Harris ahead of a potentially crowded 2028 primary field that could include figures like California Governor Gavin Newsom, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Maryland Governor Wes Moore, and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).
For now, Martin appears unlikely to reverse course entirely, though he has recently floated releasing limited “top-line” findings instead of the full report.
That compromise has satisfied few inside a Democratic Party still struggling to answer a question many members believe remains unresolved nearly two years later: what exactly went wrong in 2024?

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Actor Jerry O’Connell said his wife, Rebecca Romijn, and the couple’s two teenage daughters &#8220;became physical” with him on election night after he commented on Kamala Harris’ campaign failures.
The 52-year-old “Stand By Me” alum said as much during an interview with Bill Maher released earlier this week. 
&#8220;If I say this, will I stay married?&#8221; he joked with the “Club Random” podcast host. O’Connell went on to describe how Romijn and their children weren’t open to hearing honest feedback. 
&#8220;I said something along the lines of &#8216;there was no planning. This is what they get. There should have been a primary.&#8217; I said something along those lines, you know, like I was just spit-balling ideas. It was a shock. My wife and daughters, without saying anything, became physical with me. They were filled with rage,&#8221; O&#8217;Connell said.
&#8220;So if I am being careful with you in how I say things, yes, I live in California. I live with not one, not two, but three people who, if I made any kind of joke, they&#8217;d become very angry with me,&#8221; the actor added.
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Maher replied by saying he wouldn’t do well with that kind of behavior in his house.
&#8220;Whatever household situation I&#8217;m in, I say what I truly think, and if it makes you angry, I&#8217;m sorry. We&#8217;ll have to work that out. But I am not going to tuck my tail between my legs and just shut the f*** up,&#8221; Maher said.
O’Connell has been married to former supermodel Romijn since 2007, and their twin daughters, Dolly and Charlie, were born in 2008.
He actively supported Harris during the 2024 presidential election, even <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C-EPwB9sGRE/">attending a rally</a> in Georgia.
Maher and O’Connell’s discussion about the 2024 presidential election came just after Maher criticized Hollywood for not recognizing Paramount+ hit “Landman” because it’s seen as a “conservative show.”
“First of all, even if it was a conservative show, that should be allowed,” Maher said. “This is f***ing America, you a**holes.”
He continued, “I mean, it’s just not exactly what you are. And so we have to ignore that and pretend it doesn’t exist. You want to know why people vote for Trump? That’s why. Your sh***y attitude is a real turnoff.”

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Actor and major Democratic donor George Clooney declared that the strategy of replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris months before the 2024 election was a “mistake.”
The “Ocean’s Eleven” star made the admission during an interview with CBS &#8220;Sunday Morning.&#8221;
When asked if he would write his infamous New York Times op-ed again if he had a chance to redo things, Clooney said he would.
“Yes. We had a chance. I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary. Let’s battle-test this quickly and get it up and going. I think the mistake with it being Kamala is she had to run against her own record. It’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ It’s hard to do, and so she was given a very tough task,” the actor said.
“I think it was a mistake, quite honestly. But we are where we are. We were gonna lose more House seats, they say. So I don’t know. To not do it would be to say, ‘I’m not gonna tell the truth.&#8217;”
After Biden totally flubbed his first presidential debate against Trump, Clooney echoed what many in Hollywood were saying and wrote his thoughts in an essay published in July 2024, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-turns-on-biden-these-celebrities-say-its-time-to-go?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Hollywood+Turns+On+Biden%3A+These+Celebrities+Say+It%E2%80%99s+Time+To+Go">reported</a>.
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He wrote at the time, “We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.”
Clooney defended speaking out after being criticized, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-clooney-defends-his-op-ed-knifing-joe-biden-as-a-civic-duty/">telling</a> CNN’s Jake Tapper at the time that it was his “civic duty” to call for Biden to drop out of the race.
“That’s the deal, you have to take your stand if you believe in it,” he said at the time. “Take a stand, stand for it and then deal with the consequences. That’s the rules, so when people criticize me — they criticized me for my stance against the war 20 years ago, people picketed my movies and they put me on a deck of cards — I have to take that, that’s fair. I’m OK with that, I’m OK with criticism for where I stand. I defend their right to criticize me as much as I defend my right to criticize them.”

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris recalled during a recent interview how then-President Joe Biden had &#8220;angered&#8221; her in the moments leading up to her one debate with President Donald Trump.
Harris told podcast host Steven Bartlett (&#8220;Diary of a CEO&#8221;) that Biden had called her prior to the debate, but that instead of giving her the encouragement and advice she expected, he&#8217;d made it clear to her that he was thinking only of himself.
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&#8220;I’m in the hotel room with Doug, with my husband, and the president calls,&#8221; Harris began. &#8220;And I was told that he wanted to call me so that I’d be ready, and I was so sure it was to buck me up and &#8216;go get him!'&#8221;
&#8220;He did say that for the first beat. And then he went on to talk about a group of people in Pennsylvania who were saying bad things about me because they heard I was saying bad thing about him,&#8221; Harris continued. &#8220;And when I hung up the phone, I was just, I was, it was unbelievable! And I was yes, I was angry! And deeply disappointed.&#8221;
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Harris went on to explain that she&#8217;d actually wanted Biden to give her some pointers: &#8220;It just. It was so unnecessary. There are only two people in the world other than me that has debated this guy, Hillary Clinton and him. And you know what it’s like, it’s &#8230; Going into a debate with the stakes being that high and Trump hadn’t agreed to another debate, the stakes were so high. So that’s an example of what I mean.&#8221;
&#8220;You took something from that. You took an underlying message about one’s intentions from that, because I would,&#8221; Bartlett prompted Harris to follow that thought to its logical conclusion. &#8220;If someone called me in the lead up to debate prep and said something like that to me, I would assume that they don’t want the best for me.&#8221;
&#8220;My takeaway is his motivation was all about himself,&#8221; Harris replied.
&#8220;That’s what I would assume from that,&#8221; Bartlett agreed.
&#8220;Obviously, right. Yeah. It wasn’t about my performance at the debate,&#8221; Harris said.
Bartlett took the argument a bit further, asking, &#8220;Do you think he wanted you to win the election?&#8221;
Harris said that she did believe Biden wanted her to win, but she thought that his motives had been selfish: &#8220;I do because I was the only one who would be able to preserve his legacy.&#8221;
&#8220;But even that’s about him,&#8221; Bartlett noted.
&#8220;Well, if I had to assume one of the reasons why he’d want me to win. If– yeah,&#8221; she said.

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Kathy Griffin had her Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) on full display during a recent episode of her podcast, when she insisted that President Donald Trump stole the 2024 election.
The 64-year-old comedian and plastic surgery enthusiast has a long history of animosity toward Trump — most infamously when she posed in 2017 with a prop resembling the president’s bloodied, severed head. The stunt tanked her already fading career, but she’s continued to attack Trump at every opportunity since.
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“People are calling this protest the No Kings Day, because Trump thinks he’s a f***ing king,” Griffin said on Wednesday’s episode of her YouTube show, titled “The Un-Cancelation of Kathy Griffin.” 
“And you know he’s not. He’s barely a president,” she went on. 
“I’m going to say something that’s going to get me in trouble,” Griffin said before saying it may make her seem “crazy,” but she doesn’t believe Trump “won in a free and fair election.” 
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The comedian said she believed Trump’s win wasn’t legit because Elon Musk was “handing out million-dollar checks to people to vote for Trump,” calling the supposed act “unconstitutional and illegal.”
“He’s, like, a fake genius&#8230; he’s a professional Nazi, in my humble opinion,” Griffin said about Musk.
The D-lister also said it was “suspicious” that Trump won all seven swing states, a feat which ”has never happened in the history of the U.S.,” she claimed.
There were many reactions on social media to Griffin’s allegations.
“Kathy Griffin is the face of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Congressman Troy E. Nehls (R-TX) <a href="https://x.com/RepTroyNehls/status/1978536560459964837">wrote</a> on X.
“Kathy Griffin is now denying the results of the 2024 election. I was told that denying election results is a threat to our democracy. Literally shaking rn,” Libs of TikTok <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1978603051918233792">joked</a>.
“When your fantasy world continuously doesn’t match the real world as it is, something has to give. Denial is one way for the brain to not melt down completely, even if it is degenerating,” another person <a href="https://x.com/JazzDevo/status/1978777261877719504">chimed in</a>.

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President Donald Trump referred to his 2024 presidential rival — former Vice President Kamala Harris — as &#8220;dumb as a rock&#8221; in a Wednesday social media post, calling her out for a claim she&#8217;d been making as she promoted her memoir.
Trump mocked Harris, who has repeatedly claimed that the 2024 election was exceptionally close, as she makes the rounds in the press ahead of the release of her book, &#8220;107 Days,&#8221; about her abbreviated run for the White House in 2024.
&#8220;Kamala Harris, who is DUMB AS A ROCK, is going around and using, as a standard part of her Speech on why she lost the Election, that 2024 was the &#8216;closest Presidential Election in the 21st Century,'&#8221; Trump posted.
Trump shared a graphic that showed the 2024 election results by county, adding, &#8220;Everyone knows this is a lie, and was covered as such by Fox News! I won the Electoral College, 312-226, a LANDSLIDE, Counties Nationwide, 2,600 to 525, a LANDSLIDE, all seven Swing States, a LANDSLIDE, and, despite the fact that California’s Fake Mail In Ballots came in at ridiculous numbers (It was RIGGED!), I still won the Popular Vote by MILLIONS!&#8221;
&#8220;Bush, as an example, won the Election by 537 Votes, and many other Elections were very close. Kamala’s &#8216;closest in the 21st Century&#8217; soundbite was, like everything else in the Democrat Party, A TOTAL LIE! I expect an apology. Thank you for your attention to this matter!&#8221; Trump closed out his post on his Truth Social platform.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-host-admits-she-knew-it-her-question-torpedoed-kamalas-white-house-bid">Harris</a> has already taken some backlash for the upcoming memoir that revealed the main reason she decided against naming former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg — her first choice for a running mate — as her vice presidential pick: she was concerned that voters would not accept a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-says-she-didnt-ditch-mayor-pete-because-hes-gay-she-did-it-because-hes-gay">gay man</a> running alongside a black woman.

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris wanted to pick then-Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate in 2024, but decided against it because she wasn’t “a straight white man,” according to an excerpt from her new book. 
In portions of her new memoir <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/kamala-harris-running-mate-pete-buttigieg/684249/">published</a> by The Atlantic on Wednesday, Harris wrote that the openly gay Buttigieg was her “first choice” for her vice presidential running mate. However, she said she felt that a ticket with Buttigieg would present a level of diversity America wasn’t ready to embrace.
Harris wrote that Buttigieg “would have been an ideal partner—if I were a straight white man.”
“But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man. Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let’s just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk,” Harris wrote. “And I think Pete also knew that—to our mutual sadness.”
Harris’s book, called “107 Days,” is set to be released on September 23.
Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was Biden’s transportation secretary. He is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/buttigieg-to-pass-on-senate-run-as-he-eyes-white-house-in-2028-report">reportedly</a> considering a run for president in 2028. Earlier this year, he opted not to run for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, reportedly to position himself better for a run for the White House. 
Harris wrote that Buttigieg “is a sincere public servant with the rare talent of being able to frame liberal arguments in a way that makes it possible for conservatives to hear them.”
In the end, Harris chose Minnesota Democratic Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. 
The first portions of her book, released earlier this month, Harris <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-turns-on-biden-in-first-excerpt-from-new-memoir-it-was-recklessness">attacked</a> former President Joe Biden, claiming his re-election bid was driven by ego and that his team actively sought to undermine her.
“Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she wrote of Biden’s decision to run for re-election. “The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”

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President Donald Trump said he filed a $15 billion lawsuit against the “degenerate” New York Times on Monday for defamation and libel. 
The lawsuit targets the Times over three articles and a book written by its reporters, published before the 2024 election. The suit argues that the content, which criticized Trump’s business and political career, was maliciously intended to interfere with the presidential race. 
“Today, I have the Great Honor of bringing a $15 Billion Dollar Defamation and Libel Lawsuit against The New York Times, one of the worst and most degenerate newspapers in the History of our Country, becoming a virtual &#8216;mouthpiece&#8217; for the Radical Left Democrat Party,” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115211918198289404">wrote</a> on Truth Social. “I view it as the single largest illegal Campaign contribution, EVER. Their Endorsement of Kamala Harris was actually put dead center on the front page of The New York Times, something heretofore UNHEARD OF! The ‘Times’ has engaged in a decades long method of lying about your Favorite President (ME!), my family, business, the America First Movement, MAGA, and our Nation as a whole.”
Trump added that the outlet has “been allowed to freely lie, smear, and defame me for far too long, and that stops, NOW!”
The <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437/gov.uscourts.flmd.447437.1.0.pdf">suit</a>, filed in federal court in Florida, names the book “Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success” and the following three articles: “The Star-Making Machine That Created ‘Donald Trump,” “For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment,” and “As Election Nears, Kelly Warns Trump Would Rule Like a Dictator.”
Trump claims that the content was intended to damage his business reputation, “sabotage” his 2024 campaign, and bias judges and juries against him. 
“The Book and Articles are part of a decades-long pattern by the New York Times of intentional and malicious defamation against President Trump,” the lawsuit says. “Defendants maliciously published the Book and the Articles knowing that these publications were filled with repugnant distortions and fabrications about President Trump. Defendants simply ignored their breach of journalistic ethics because the Book and the Articles would further the goals of the New York Times and its backers in the Democrat Party.” 
In addition to the Times, the suit names the book publisher Penguin Random House and the authors of the articles as defendants. 
Trump has previously won millions of dollars in lawsuits against ABC News and CBS/Paramount. He is also pursuing an ongoing defamation case against The Wall Street Journal over an article alleging he wrote a birthday card to Jeffrey Epstein.

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