Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggested on Sunday evening that he might file a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission over the fact that President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview with Norah O&#8217;Donnell was edited for time.
Citing the lawsuit filed by Trump over a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview of former Vice President Kamala Harris — just days before the 2024 presidential election — Schumer claimed that he could simply copy and paste the complaint from that lawsuit.
&#8220;Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview. It will use the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris,&#8221; Schumer posted via X.
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Maybe I should file a complaint with the FCC against the Trump White House for editing his unhinged 60 Minutes interview.
It will use the exact same language Trump lodged against Vice President Harris.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1985230247093047608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The president&#8217;s rapid response team shot down Schumer&#8217;s claim, however, saying that the edits were not at all the same.
&#8220;They deceptively edited Kamala’s answers to make her look somewhat coherent ahead of an election, you moron — then wouldn’t release the transcript/unedited interview. That’s not the same as editing for time constraints (AND the transcript/unedited interview were both released),&#8221; their response read.
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They deceptively edited Kamala’s answers to make her look somewhat coherent ahead of an election, you moron — then wouldn’t release the transcript/unedited interview.
That’s not the same as editing for time constraints (AND the transcript/unedited interview were both released). <a href="https://t.co/O9sydtk0Br">https://t.co/O9sydtk0Br</a>
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1985369117235597822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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They and others quickly pointed out the fact that CBS had edited the Harris interview in order to make her sound less incoherent — and then had proceeded to slow-roll the release of the full transcript and unedited video. Trump&#8217;s interview, on the other hand, had been published in full along with the transcript on the day the interview aired.
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr flipped the script on Schumer, saying that as long as he and other Democrats insisted on voting to keep the federal government shut down, the FCC would not be able to address his complaint.
&#8220;Due to the Schumer Shutdown, even your frivolous filing could not be processed by the FCC. But seriously, you should end the Schumer Shutdown-which is imposing real pain on American families-rather than nonsense posting. You should open the government, rather than using Americans&#8217; pain to pander to your far left flank,&#8221; Carr posted.
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Due to the Schumer Shutdown, even your frivolous filing could not be processed by the FCC.
But seriously, you should end the Schumer Shutdown-which is imposing real pain on American families-rather than nonsense posting.
You should open the government, rather than using… <a href="https://t.co/bMzDPQNdVo">https://t.co/bMzDPQNdVo</a>
— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1985372971574145280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Maybe you should stop posting nonsense at 1:19AM in the morning and open the government,&#8221; Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) added.
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Maybe you should stop posting nonsense at 1:19AM in the morning and open the government. <a href="https://t.co/ryUL6Jwztv">https://t.co/ryUL6Jwztv</a> <a href="https://t.co/QQKxktFXPw">pic.twitter.com/QQKxktFXPw</a>
— Rep. Mike Collins (@RepMikeCollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1985353360757940309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said, &#8220;Why don’t you open the Government, quit trying to starve poor folks and help us fix the broken healthcare system you helped create.&#8221;

Chuck Schumer

Schumer Wants To File Complaint About ’60 Minutes’ Editing Trump Interview, White House Fires Back

60 Minutes

Donald Trump

Kamala Harris

Lawsuit

Media

Politics

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.”

George Clooney

George Clooney Admits Replacing Biden With Kamala Was A ‘Mistake’

2024 Election

Celebrities

Entertainment

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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Kamala Harris now says Biden angered her and reveals how she “really felt” about the whole situation.
Why is she suddenly speaking up now? 👀
Thoughts? ⬇️ 🇺🇸 <a href="https://t.co/qe5OxHsbT4">pic.twitter.com/qe5OxHsbT4</a>
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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.

President Biden And Vice President Harris Speak At The Congressional Black Caucus’ Phoenix Awards

Kamala Goes Scorched Earth, Recalls How Biden ‘Angered’ Her In Pre-Debate Pep-Talk

Kamala Goes Scorched Earth, Recalls How Biden 'Angered' Her In Pre-Debate Pep-Talk

Debate

Joe Biden

Australian news anchor Sarah Ferguson did not give former Vice President Kamala Harris an off-ramp during a recent interview, refusing to allow her to sidestep a direct question about former President Joe Biden and his obvious physical and cognitive decline.
Harris has been doing press for a memoir about her abbreviated presidential campaign — a memoir that spares no feelings as she flings blame for her loss in every direction but inward — and she appeared completely unprepared to address what was possibly the most predictable question of the interview.
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🚨NEW: Australian Broadcasting Corporation&#8217;s Sarah Ferguson *REPEATEDLY* CALLS OUT Kamala Harris for ducking question on Biden&#8217;s decline🤣
FERGUSON: &#8220;Wasn&#8217;t his refusal to recognize his own frailties the reason that you faced a nearly impossible task?&#8221;
HARRIS: *Rambles about… <a href="https://t.co/RO8jiBabcl">pic.twitter.com/RO8jiBabcl</a>
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&#8220;Wasn&#8217;t Joe Biden, then, to put it on him, wasn&#8217;t his refusal to recognize his own frailties the reason that you faced a nearly impossible task?&#8221; Ferguson asked.
&#8220;I ran against Donald Trump for President,&#8221; Harris inexplicably replied. &#8220;And Donald Trump ran on a platform that was in large part I believe misrepresenting his intentions to the American people. I do believe that there are a fair number of people that voted for Donald Trump who believed him when he told them that his first priority on day one is going to be to bring down prices, and he didn&#8217;t.&#8221;
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&#8220;And you combine that misrepresentation of intention with also what was at play in terms of massive amounts of mis- and disinformation —&#8221; Harris dragged the interview further and further down the rabbit hole. &#8220;— and a truncated calendar in terms of the clock —&#8221;
&#8220;Now, I&#8217;m — forgive me — want to interrupt you — because that is a world-class pivot, but it is not the question that I asked you, which is about Joe Biden&#8217;s failure to recognize his own frailties and what that did to you,&#8221; Ferguson cut in and put a stop to Harris&#8217; ramble. &#8220;The question is about Joe Biden. Are you still reluctant to criticize the former president?&#8221;
&#8220;In what regard, please?&#8221; Harris asked.
&#8220;Just in terms of that question,&#8221; Ferguson repeated.
&#8220;What exactly would you like to ask? Be more specific, if you don&#8217;t mind,&#8221; Harris said.
Slowing her speech markedly, Ferguson asked again, &#8220;Was it Joe Biden&#8217;s decision, his failure to recognize his own frailties in that position, that put you in the position that made it almost impossible to win that race?&#8221;
&#8220;He was not frail as President of the United States,&#8221; Harris insisted.
&#8220;But he had frailties. We all saw the debate,&#8221; Ferguson pressed.
Harris hesitated briefly before replying, &#8220;I do believe that Joe Biden had the capacity to be President of the United States, and I have never doubted that he had the capacity to be President of the United States. If you want to talk about whether he had the ability to endure what a race for President of the United States would require in that political environment in 2024, as I have said in the book, I had concerns.&#8221;
Ferguson tried one more time to get a straight answer from Harris: &#8220;Yes, but I&#8217;m just wondering is there a reason why you won&#8217;t go to that prolonged frailty question?&#8221;

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News Anchor Wrecks Kamala Over Covering For Joe Biden: ‘That Was A World Class Pivot’

News Anchor Wrecks Kamala Over Covering For Joe Biden: 'That Was A World Class Pivot'

Australia

Cover-up

After Virginia’s Republican candidate for governor, Winsome Earle-Sears, left her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger, on the ropes in a debate last week, Sears came out with a devastating ad: A full minute-long clip from the debate of Spanberger staring ahead silently, unwilling to answer the moderator’s question about whether she endorses attorney general candidate Jay Jones despite his homicidal comments against Republicans.
“We’re talking about murder … have you nothing to say about that?” Sears prodded.
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Abigail Spanberger’s silence says it all. <a href="https://t.co/orrgAzULKK">pic.twitter.com/orrgAzULKK</a>
— Winsome Earle-Sears (@winwithwinsome) <a href="https://twitter.com/winwithwinsome/status/1976687770870612056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Spanberger’s retort? An ad that mocks Sears for interrupting her during the debate. The ad featured an old clip of Sears shouting with a strange affect, “I am speaking!” The clip — which Spanberger has used in other ads this cycle — plays four times in one ad, even though it didn’t come from the debate.
There’s just one problem: Earle-Sears wasn’t actually making that assertion; she was mocking Democrat Kamala Harris, whom Spanberger supported. In fact, it’s a famous Harris quote, one that her supporters praised as an example of a strong feminist.
Democrats portrayed Harris telling Mike Pence, “I’m speaking,” during their 2020 vice presidential debate as the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXFqTGBty1w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">highlight</a> of the debate. There’s even a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Im-Speaking-Strength-Wisdom-President/dp/1250278414" target="_blank" rel="noopener">book</a> titled “I’m Speaking: Words of Strength and Wisdom from Kamala Harris.” She used the line again to applause last year to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOqTAWml658" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shut down protesters</a> chanting at her rally.
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So even as Sears rolled out ad after ad that criticized Spanberger by showing her responses when asked about policy positions, the most damaging thing Spanberger could attribute to Sears, even after four years as lieutenant governor, was something that was actually said by the Democrats’ presidential nominee, with Spanberger falsely giving the impression that it was a Sears quote.
Spanberger appears to view Harris’s famous quote as so idiotic that she has played it on a near-loop in multiple different ads, even before the debate. An earlier ad plays the clip four times.
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🚨NEW AD: At every turn, <a href="https://twitter.com/winwithwinsome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@winwithwinsome</a> chooses her loyalty to Trump over what’s best for Virginia. <a href="https://t.co/gWUGYcGGWX">pic.twitter.com/gWUGYcGGWX</a>
— Abigail Spanberger (@SpanbergerForVA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SpanbergerForVA/status/1975557808998522915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The clip comes from a September 2, 2024 <a class="c-link" href="https://x.com/bluevirginia/status/1830954208809386440" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://x.com/bluevirginia/status/1830954208809386440" data-sk="tooltip_parent">speech</a> where Sears was being heckled. Sears diverted from her speech after she said a heckler told her to go back to Jamaica, where she was born. &#8220;I understand that y’all are the tolerant people. So I want to know. I just want to be sure because the vice president’s father was from Jamaica,&#8221; she said, before breaking into a Harris imitation.
So according to Sears, a Democrat made a racist comment to her, which she objected to. Then Spanberger stripped it of its context and used it to portray Sears as rude and angry. The image of Sears as angry black woman is one Virginia Democrats have repeatedly returned to. The Powhatan County Democratic Party posted a cartoon of Sears angrily jumping up and down and shrieking, before deleting it and apologizing for “racist overtones.”
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Virginia <a href="https://twitter.com/Powhatan_Dems?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Powhatan_Dems</a> are extremely hateful ~ 
They knew it was wrong before they posted it. 
Now, it&#8217;s out there forever.<a href="https://t.co/vXYtSKQjCS">https://t.co/vXYtSKQjCS</a>
— Words_of_Faith (@WordsofFaithTo1) <a href="https://twitter.com/WordsofFaithTo1/status/1977494635770736710?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Overt racism has been seen on the campaign trail against Earle-Sears, a U.S. Marine veteran who immigrated as a young child from Jamaica. In October, an elderly white Democratic woman held a sign that said, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t share your bathroom, then blacks can’t share my water fountain.”
Spanberger and Lieutenant Governor candidate Ghazala Hashmi have stood by Jay Jones despite text messages in which he said of Republican former state House Speaker Todd Gilbert, “Gilbert gets two bullets to the head,” and hoped to see Gilbert’s children die to make the family “feel pain.” What angered Jones was Gilbert’s kind words about a Democrat, which Jones viewed as signifying that the Democrat was too moderate.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-dems-say-candidate-who-fantasized-about-murdering-gop-leader-is-better-than-republicans">Virginia Dems Say ‘Our Democracy’ Depends On Voting For Candidate Who Fantasized About Assassination</a>

Abigail Spanberger debates Winsome Sears / NBC

Virginia Dem Hits Opponent For Saying Something Dumb. She Was Quoting Kamala Harris.

Virginia

Winsome Sears

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.

President Biden And Vice President Harris Speak At Democratic National Committee’s Holiday Reception

‘I Expect An Apology’: Trump Torches ‘Dumb As A Rock’ Kamala

'I Expect An Apology': Trump Torches 'Dumb As A Rock' Kamala

Sunny Hostin admitted on Tuesday that she had known in real time that her question — about what she might have done differently than then-President Joe Biden — could cost then Vice President Kamala Harris the 2024 presidential election.
Harris joined the hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; for their midday broadcast, where they discussed her upcoming memoir titled &#8220;107 Days&#8221; — which details the short-lived and ill-fated campaign upon which she embarked just hours after Biden announced his plan to withdraw from the race.
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin raised the question about the overall mood of the country at the time, asking whether Harris and her team might have missed signs indicating that Americans were desperate for a seismic shift away from Biden — and already viewed her, his vice president, as an extension of his presidency.
&#8220;Understanding that many people saw you as an extension of Joe Biden, were there glaring warning signs that, when there&#8217;s only two options to vote on, that you missed going into election day?&#8221; Griffin asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m a loyal person, and I didn&#8217;t fully appreciate how much people wanted to know there was a difference between me and president Biden,&#8221; Harris replied. &#8220;I thought it was obvious, and I didn&#8217;t want to offer a difference in a way that would be received or suggested to be a criticism, and, you know, in the campaign full-time I was pointing out the differences.&#8221;
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Looking for absolution, Sunny Hostin laments asking Kamala the infamous question that sunk her campaign.&#8221;You write you had no idea you just pulled the pin on a hand grenade. In the moment, I knew. The Trump campaign weaponized your answer against you; my question,&#8221; she whined.… <a href="https://t.co/efxlvwqZDy">pic.twitter.com/efxlvwqZDy</a>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1970517973375881439?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hostin, who initially asked Harris the question heard around the world — what might Harris have done differently from Biden — said that she had understood the weight of the vice president&#8217;s non-answer in the moment.
&#8220;You write you had no idea you just pulled the pin on a hand grenade. In the moment, I knew,&#8221; Hostin said, and then argued that the real problem wasn&#8217;t Harris and her inability to answer the question, but the way that Trump&#8217;s campaign had made use of it. &#8220;The Trump campaign weaponized your answer against you; my question.&#8221;
Hostin asked Harris whether she felt like that question — and her answer — had tipped the election.
&#8220;Because Sunny doesn&#8217;t want to take the blame,&#8221; Joy Behar quipped.
&#8220;I absolve you,&#8221; Harris said to Hostin, but also said that she didn&#8217;t believe that one moment had cost her the presidency.

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‘The View’ Host Admits She ‘Knew It’: Her Question Torpedoed Kamala’s White House Bid

'The View' Host Admits She 'Knew It': Her Question Torpedoed Kamala's White House Bid

Sunny Hostin

The View

Former Vice President Kamala Harris compared her 2024 presidential election rout to the loss of her mother, saying that she grieved her loss to President Donald Trump in a way she hadn&#8217;t grieved anything since her mother passed away.
Harris joined the cohosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; to talk about the election and her upcoming memoir, titled &#8220;107 Days,&#8221; which details the abbreviated and ill-fated presidential campaign upon which she&#8217;d embarked after former President Joe Biden bowed out of the race.
After the introductions, cohost Sara Haines kicked things off by complaining that everything had seemed to be on the upswing for Democrats once Biden dropped out of the race in late July, nearly one month after his disastrous televised debate against Trump.
&#8220;There seemed to be so much momentum after President Biden stepped aside. There was a renewed sense of hope for Democrats, honestly for everyone. It felt like there was this great option,&#8221; Haines said of Harris. &#8220;Money was pouring in to the tune of a billion dollars. There were huge crowds at your events and then election night came, and it was 2016 all over again.&#8221;
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Joy Behar and Kamala agree Election Night 2024 was &#8220;traumatic.&#8221; 
Kamala compares losing the election to the death of her mother: 
&#8220;But that night, I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died&#8230;And it was &#8212; I was &#8212; the pain was &#8212; it was not at all about losing a race,… <a href="https://t.co/H5Yz7wVeLJ">pic.twitter.com/H5Yz7wVeLJ</a>
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Harris admitted then that she and her husband, former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, had not talked about election night — because it had been so &#8220;traumatic&#8221; — before she sat down to write about it in her book.
&#8220;That night, I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died &#8230; And it was — I was — the pain was — 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, and that&#8217;s how I felt for the country,&#8221; she said arguing that her grief was primarily for the country under President Trump&#8217;s leadership. &#8220;And all I could say over and over again is my God, my God, my God.&#8221;

Kamala Compares 2024 Election Rout To Losing Her Mother

Former Vice President Kamala Harris told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow that she didn&#8217;t decide against choosing former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate because he is gay, but rather, she opted not to choose him as her running mate because he is gay.
Harris spoke with Maddow — who is openly gay — about her upcoming memoir &#8220;107 Days,&#8221; in which she said that she&#8217;d felt it would be difficult to win a race as a black woman if her running mate were gay. Saying that Buttigieg &#8220;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, &#8216;Screw it, let’s just do it.&#8217; But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.&#8221;
Maddow asked her about the passage, clearly a bit upset by the tone of the statement. &#8220;I guess I&#8217;d ask you to just elaborate on that a little bit &#8230; it&#8217;s hard to hear with you, the first woman elected vice president &#8230; to say that he couldn&#8217;t be on the ticket effectively because he was gay, is hard to hear.&#8221;
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Kamala wrote in her book she couldn’t pick Mayor Pete to be her vice president because he was gay. Asked about it by Maddow, she says that’s not what she said. How is she so bad at all of this? <a href="https://t.co/IpT1JiC9SE">pic.twitter.com/IpT1JiC9SE</a>
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&#8220;My point is, as I write in the book, is that I was clear that in 107 days, in one of the most hotly contested elections for president against someone like Trump, who knows no floor,&#8221; Harris said, attempting to spin her argument as a move to protect Buttigieg from the obvious onslaught of attacks that would have come. &#8220;To be a black woman running for president, and as a vice presidential running mate, a gay man. With the stakes being so high, it made me very sad. But I also realized it would be a real risk.&#8221;
Harris then attempted to use her record of supporting the LGBTQ community to redirect the conversation — and assure Maddow that her decision was not a personal one — saying, &#8220;You know, I&#8217;ve been an advocate and an ally of the LGBT community my entire life. So it wasn&#8217;t about any prejudice on my part, but we had such a short &#8230; we had such a short period of time. And the stakes were so high.&#8221;

Kamala Says She Didn’t Ditch Mayor Pete Because He’s Gay, She Did It Because He’s Gay

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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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Kamala Reveals Who Her ‘First Choice’ For Running Mate Was

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In her new book about her failed 2024 campaign, former Vice President Kamala Harris blasts former President Joe Biden, claiming his re-election bid was driven by ego and that his team actively sought to undermine her in the White House.
The Atlantic on Wednesday <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/kamala-harris-107-days-excerpt/684150/">published</a> portions of Harris’s new memoir, “107 Days,” in which she attacks Biden and his team as she discusses her campaign against Donald Trump. 
According to Harris, whenever the prospect of Biden running again was raised, the standard response inside the White House was, “It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.”
“We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she wrote. “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.”
Harris said that she couldn’t push Biden to step aside earlier, insisting it would have been seen as a &#8220;self-serving&#8221; move.
“And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out. I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win,” she wrote. 
Harris denied that there was “some big conspiracy” to hide Biden’s “infirmity,” and claimed that he was “able to discharge the duties of president.” 
“I don’t believe it was incapacity. If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country,” she said. 
In the excerpts, Harris also claimed Biden’s team repeatedly threw her under the bus for political purposes. She said that when she came under fire from conservative media, “the White House rarely pushed back with my actual résumé.”
“They had a huge comms team; they had Karine Jean-Pierre briefing in the pressroom every day. But getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible,” she wrote. “Worse, I often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me.”
She said it seemed like Biden’s team “seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more.” Harris was particularly upset that Biden didn’t do more to defend her after he designated her border czar, a title she claimed was mischaracterized by conservative media. 
Harris argued that elevating her profile could have improved Biden’s image with voters.
“Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital,” she wrote. 
Harris’s book is set to be released on September 23.

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Kamala Turns On Biden In First Excerpt From New Memoir: ‘It Was Recklessness’

A new <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-gen-zs-gender-divide-reaches-politics-views-marriage-children-suc-rcna229255">NBC News Decision Desk/SurveyMonkey poll</a> of over 30,000 adults reveals what many conservatives have long suspected: young Americans — particularly women who voted for Kamala Harris — are abandoning traditional American values at an alarming rate.
The poll, which surveyed nearly 3,000 Gen Z adults (ages 18 to 29), shows a sharp cultural divide — not only between men and women — but between those who support Trump and those backing the Biden-Harris agenda. And when it comes to the values that define a successful life, the contrast is stark.
Gen Z men who voted for Donald Trump overwhelmingly valued family, faith, and financial independence. They ranked having children as the number one marker of success. In fact, the top five values among this group included being married, being spiritually grounded, and making their family or community proud.
Contrast that with Harris voters — especially women — and a radically different picture emerges. For Harris-voting women, having children ranked 12th out of 13. Being married was even lower. Being spiritually grounded was virtually irrelevant. These voters instead prioritized emotional stability, self-fulfillment, and using their talents to help others — feelings above family and faith.
For example, while Gen Z women who supported Harris obsessed over emotional well-being, Trump-supporting women ranked spiritual grounding and home ownership far higher — hallmarks of personal responsibility and long-term investment. Three weeks before the 2024 election, Business Insider <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/single-women-political-power-voting-kamala-harris-election-2024-10">noted</a>, &#8220;In a 2023 Pew survey, more than seven in 10 single women identified as a Democrat or leaned Democratic, compared with 45% of married women. &#8230; A recent Ipsos survey found Harris leading among single women voters by nearly 40 points.&#8221;
In the NBC poll, nearly two-thirds of Gen Z women said they felt anxious “most” or “all of the time.”
It’s a generation caught in emotional turmoil. Instead of finding stability in tradition, they are endorsing a worldview that lives by an entirely different moral code that rejects the very principles that built Western civilization.

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