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

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

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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>
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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

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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>
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1970511286350823535?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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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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Rachel Maddow

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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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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Gen Z Harris Voters Reject Traditional Values Like Marriage, Children, And Religion: Poll

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President Donald Trump will end former Vice President Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection, which former President Joe Biden had quietly extended beyond the usual timeframe.
Harris’ Secret Service protection will end on Monday, according to a Thursday letter <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/politics/kamala-harris-secret-service-canceled-trump-biden">obtained</a> by CNN. A senior White House official confirmed the cancellation of the Secret Service detail on Friday morning. 
“You are hereby authorized to discontinue any security-related procedures previously authorized by Executive Memorandum, beyond those required by law, for the following individual, effective September 1, 2025: Former Vice President Kamala D. Harris,” a letter from the White House to the Department of Homeland Security read.
Federal law requires that vice presidents get six months of taxpayer-funded Secret Service protection after leaving office. Biden took executive action before completing his term, giving Harris 18 total months of Secret Service protection, NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-revokes-secret-service-protection-former-president-kamala-harris-rcna227959">reported</a>. Typically, her Secret Service detail would have been pulled on July 21. 
“The Vice President is grateful to the United States Secret Service for their professionalism, dedication, and unwavering commitment to safety,” senior Harris adviser Kirsten Allen said, commenting on the decision. 
California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom was briefed on the end of Harris’s Secret Service protection, CNN reported. 
“The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulses,” Newsom spokesman Bob Salladay said. 
In the coming weeks, Harris is set to embark on a national tour to promote her book, “107 Days,” which documents her failed 2024 presidential campaign. 
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Trump has previously moved to end Secret Service details for other former government officials. Shortly after beginning his second term, Trump yanked the Secret Service details for former National Security Adviser John Bolton, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and former Iran envoy Brian Hook.
He also revoked the Secret Service details for Hunter and Ashley Biden in March. In a Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114180054723679623/">post</a> at the time, Trump said that 31 agents were protecting the half-siblings. 
“Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer. There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous! He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned,” Trump wrote. “Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list.”

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Trump Yanks Kamala’s Secret Service Detail After Biden’s Quiet Extension

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Former Vice President Kamala Harris “rebuffed” a request from the Vance family to allow their children a tour of the vice president’s residence ahead of the inauguration, according to Vice President JD Vance.
Vance revealed the apparent snub during an appearance on the inaugural episode of the Katie Miller Podcast that aired on Monday. Harris, branded as &#8220;Momala&#8221; during the presidential campaign, reportedly denied the Vance children an early chance to see the house they would live in for the next four years.
“I think that, normally, it&#8217;s customary for the outgoing vice president to show the incoming vice president&#8217;s family the house,” Vance said. “We have three little kids, so I guess at the time our kids were, like, 7, 5, and, you know, 2 – I guess Mirabel turned 3 right before the inauguration.”
“Usha really wanted to show [the children where they would be living], so what we actually proposed is, recognizing the weirdness of the politics, can Usha take the kids over and just show them where they&#8217;re going to be living for the next 4 years, and they were rebuffed,” Vance said.
Instead, Vance and his wife introduced their children to the vice presidential residence through photos.
“A friend of ours in Cincinnati had a book about the vice president&#8217;s residence, and so we would show the kids what it would look like, but that&#8217;s as close as they ever got to it” before the inauguration, Vance said.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/VP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VP</a> says after the election, since it&#8217;s usually &#8220;customary for the outgoing VP to show the incoming VP&#8217;s family the house,&#8221; he proposed bringing their kids over so they could see their home for the next four years — but Kamala &#8220;rebuffed&#8221; that request. <a href="https://t.co/YC58At8Iqf">pic.twitter.com/YC58At8Iqf</a>
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Harris snubbed the vice president, as well. Traditionally, the sitting vice president has invited the incoming vice president to the residence ahead of inauguration, though Harris skipped the custom with Vance.
Harris has often brought up her role as “Momala” to her stepchildren, Cole and Ella, gained through her marriage to her husband Doug Emhoff. The nickname was agreed upon one night by Harris and Ella a couple years after Harris and Emhoff were married.
Harris wrote about the experience in a Mother’s Day <a href="https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a27422434/kamala-harris-stepmom-mothers-day/">piece</a> in Elle in 2019. The nickname has been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/politics/kamala-harris-stepmom-cole-ella-emhoff.html">referenced</a> repeatedly in news articles and profiles to tout Harris’ family’s support for her career in politics.

Kamala Wouldn’t Let Vance Kids Tour The Veep’s House Before Inauguration, VP Says

Kamala Wouldn't Let Vance Kids Tour The Veep's House Before Inauguration, VP Says

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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) turned out a scathing critique of former Vice President Kamala Harris and her 2024 presidential bid, saying that she&#8217;d relied too much on the counsel of billionaires who had steered her away from speaking on behalf of American workers.
Sanders spoke with CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; and she asked him to address a comment he&#8217;d made about Harris at a recent rally in West Virginia.
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“How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crisis facing working families?”<a href="https://twitter.com/SenSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSanders</a> says that one reason Kamala Harris lost in 2024 was because “she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working class.” <a href="https://t.co/QRnwxO8znQ">pic.twitter.com/QRnwxO8znQ</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1954533959892631883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Bash began with a clip of from the rally, in which Sanders told the audience, &#8220;One of the reasons, in my view, that Kamala Harris lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working-class of this country.&#8221;
&#8220;Ouch,&#8221; Bash reacted before she asked Sanders to clarify.
&#8220;Well, no, I think, I mean, I don’t think that that’s — I like her, she’s a friend of mine, but her core consultants, you know, were heavily influenced by very wealthy people,&#8221; Sanders said. &#8220;How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families? You know, more income and wealth inequality today than we’ve ever had. You have 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck. You’ve got a health care system which is broken and dysfunctional, and despite spending so much, we’re the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people. How do you not talk about these issues?&#8221;
&#8220;She talked about affordability —&#8221; Bash prompted.
Sanders objected: &#8220;Well, but in a vague — I don’t want to rehash that campaign, but I think the clue to Democratic victories is to understand that you’ve got to stand unequivocally with the working class of this country. You need an agenda that speaks to the needs of working people.&#8221;
Just two months before the election, Sanders sang a different tune. He claimed then that Harris was being &#8220;pragmatic&#8221; in hiding her own Marxist tendencies so that she could win the election.
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Welker: &#8220;Do you think Kamala is abandoning her progressive ideals?&#8221;
Bernie: &#8220;I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/qtwmgui7vd">pic.twitter.com/qtwmgui7vd</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1832777676811034816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Bernie Turns On Kamala In Scathing Critique Of 2024 Bid

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According to political analyst Mark Halperin, if former Vice President Kamala Harris slams former President Biden in her new book, Biden’s team is poised to level her publicly.
Just after Biden signed a book deal for his memoir, Harris announced her upcoming book &#8220;107 Days,” which revolves around her 2024 presidential run for the presidency. Halperin made his comments on 2Way’s &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp7wJWVNlbI">The Morning Meeting</a>.
“I’m gonna break a little news here,” Halperin boasted. “We talk all the time about what did Kamala Harris know and when did she know it about his cognitive decline. I will tell you, and this has never been reported, barely at all, if the Biden people decide that Kamala Harris is coming after Joe Biden, wait until you hear the Palin-esque stories about how much they tried to help her be prepared to be vice president and be in a position to run, and how much they decided, ‘Not happening. She’s not up to this.’ And if the Biden people feel threatened, you will hear stories about Kamala Harris as vice president that will not make her look good.&#8221;
“There’s a closeness to the couples,” he stated, “It’s not like they’re at war currently, but I’m tellin’ ya, if Joe Biden feels threatened, if his people feel threatened by her, this is going to escalate in a big way and she will have a hard time defending against the stories if that dam bursts. They were extraordinary in trying to help her do the job of vice-president; they gave her every opportunity. They found in some instances that she had some issues.&#8221;
“The folks in the Biden administration, including the president himself, were very protective of her, did their best to make her a success, did their best to make her ready to be president either if Joe Biden left office prematurely or if she decided she wanted to run,” Halperin said. “If you look at her public schedule, you&#8217;ll see she had, I think, an unprecedented number of meetings with world leaders. Certainly, every opportunity, whether they were in Washington or when she traveled overseas, she met a lot of world leaders. They tried to get her up to speed, but she was not quite ready for prime time. Let me put it that way.”

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Lina Khan, the head of the Federal Trade Commission under former President Joe Biden and one of the administration&#8217;s most far-left members, billed taxpayers for a luxury car service while barnstorming the country on the eve of the presidential election, according to an inspector general probe.
As part of a &#8220;Charge Card Act review,&#8221; the FTC&#8217;s inspector general <a href="https://oig.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2025-07/2025-07-08_Final_Redacted_Version_FTC%20OIG%20management%20advisory_ground%20transportation.pdf">found</a> &#8220;unusually high expenses for travel,&#8221; including nearly $19,000 for booking a private car service during 16 trips to other cities, plus additional costs for using the service to get around Washington, D.C. It found that Khan had used the service for &#8220;ease of transportation,&#8221; without addressing &#8220;a less expensive alternative.&#8221; On one trip to Denver, Khan spent $1,128 on a private chauffeur service when she could have rented a car for $407, it said.
Some of the expenses billed to taxpayers may have come as she was accused of using her government position to campaign for Democrats ahead of the November 2024 election.
On October 2, 2024, <a href="https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/ftc-lina-khan-campaigns-with-democrats/">Punchbowl News</a> said Khan was &#8220;zig-zagging&#8221; the country to appear with Democrat politicians, where &#8220;Khan&#8217;s events with lawmakers have nominal policy themes&#8230;but the timing so near the election is hard to ignore.&#8221; That included an event in Chicago with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi and in Wisconsin with Rep. Mark Pocan. The car service fees highlighted by the inspector general include October 2 travel in Chicago at $1,021, and October 3 travel in Madison, Wisconsin, for $2,215.
The findings come as Khan, who has consistently attacked the greed of large corporations and CEOs, has prominently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/lina-khan-mamdani-democrats-small-business.html">boosted</a> the campaign of socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York.
FTC management replied to the inspector general that the spending did not violate existing rules, but highlighted a need to update the agency&#8217;s policies. The inspector general recommended &#8220;enhanced requirements for the justification and documentation of these travel expenses.&#8221;
House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) faulted the politically tinged trips even before the luxury car service was known about, saying Khan had a pattern of playing fast and loose with rules. He <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2024-10-21%20JDJ%20Lee%20to%20Khan%20re%20Hatch%20Act.pdf">wrote</a> in October 2024 that &#8220;Federal law and FTC ethics rules prohibit you from participating in political events, and from using appropriated funds for any political activity&#8230; This concern is particularly significant given your history of ignoring agency ethics advice concerning the appearance of partiality, including ignoring the advice of the agency&#8217;s Designated Agency Ethics Official.&#8221;
Khan faces additional questions after she placed a Democrat political appointee into a top long-term job at the FTC in the final hours of the Biden administration, essentially infiltrating the incoming Trump administration. Nathaniel Segal worked as Special Assistant to President Joe Biden and Deputy Advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris until January 18, 2025, when he was placed in a non-political FTC job after Khan personally overrode staff&#8217;s concerns, three Trump officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-harris-aide-under-doj-investigation-falsifying-paperwork-to-get-musk-buyout">previously told</a> The Daily Wire.
As someone who had just started his job at the FTC, Segal should have been on new-employee probationary status. But he was falsely put on the FTC&#8217;s payroll as a non-probationary employee, making it harder for Trump administration officials to fire him. When the Trump administration fixed the error, which would have made Segal worry that he would be laid off, he created false, backdated paperwork to try to get paid through Elon Musk&#8217;s &#8220;Fork in the Road&#8221; buyout offer, for which he was not eligible and had not actually applied, according to the officials.
The Segal situation is now the subject of a criminal investigation by federal prosecutors, and it could implicate not just Segal, but also Khan.
Since The Daily Wire broke that story, it has uncovered more questions about Segal&#8217;s hiring, finding no record that the FTC ever advertised the job to the public (most openings are required to be advertised on USAJobs.gov). That would mean that Khan gave a civil service job to a Democrat insider without giving the public any chance to apply.
Converting political appointees to career employees at the tail end of an administration is known as &#8220;burrowing&#8221; and is only permitted with permission from the Office of Personnel Management, which said it had no record of approving the move.
Some Biden administration officials schemed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/labor-department-fires-kamala-aide-exposed-by-the-daily-wire-for-burrowing-in-trump-workforce">evade</a> those regulations by creating &#8220;three-year term&#8221; positions that would implant a Democrat operative through the bulk of the Trump administration, but which they argued didn&#8217;t count as burrowing because the job wasn&#8217;t permanent. But such positions also need to be advertised to the public, and wouldn&#8217;t be eligible for the buyout, which was designed to get rid of employees who could otherwise be on the payroll for decades.
Khan&#8217;s possible abuse of the civil service for partisan purposes is particularly egregious as Democrats claim it is a conspiracy theory for conservatives to believe in a &#8220;deep state.&#8221;
Although no job postings appear to show the FTC giving others the chance to apply to the Deputy Technology Officer job that went to Segal, they do show a frenzy of attempted hiring activity in the FTC&#8217;s tech and information departments between the election and inauguration. Those include:
<ul>
<li>A <a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/825540600">cyber adviser</a> at up to $191,900, posted December 21</li>
<li>An <a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/825528200">IT specialist</a> at up to $88,926 posted December 23</li>
<li>A &#8220;Supervisory Information Technology Specialist (Mission Success Manager)&#8221; at up to <a href="https://www.usajobs.gov/job/827928800">$195,200</a> posted January 15</li>
</ul>
Khan, now on the faculty of Columbia University, did not return a request for comment.

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