107 Days

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107 Days
107 Days Kamala Harris.jpg
Author Kamala Harris
LanguageEnglish
Subject 2024 United States presidential election
GenrePolitical memoir
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date
September 23, 2025
Pages320
ISBN 978-1668211656

107 Days is a political memoir by Kamala Harris, the 49th vice president of the United States, in collaboration with author Geraldine Brooks. [1] The book details Harris's 2024 presidential campaign after the withdrawal of Joe Biden from the election, with the title referencing the length of her campaign. It is scheduled to be released by Simon & Schuster on September 23, 2025, in hardcover and a ten-hour audiobook edition read by Harris. [2] [1]

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Development and publication

On July 31, 2025, Simon & Schuster announced that Harris would publish a memoir about her 2024 presidential campaign, with a release date of September 23. In a video posted on social media, Harris stated that the memoir was derived from a journal in which she wrote her reflections and recollections of "the shortest presidential campaign in modern history". Harris collaborated with Geraldine Brooks to give the book a "novelistic feel", and Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp stated that the book reads more like a suspense novel than a political memoir. The memoir was coedited by Jonathan Karp and Dawn Davis, the senior vice president of Simon & Schuster. [1] An audiobook version of the memoir narrated by Harris was announced to be published on Audible. [3]

On August 21, 2025, Harris announced on social media that she would be starting an international book tour in September 2025 to promote 107 Days. She scheduled eighteen appearances in cities across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom; it will last through November 2025. [4]

Contents

In the book, Harris calls leaving the decision to run for re-election solely up to Joe and Jill Biden "reckless". Harris acknowledges Biden's age and health concerns, but says that Biden was still capable of functioning as president. [5] Nonetheless, Harris states that she was “angry and disappointed” with Joe Biden for his poor 2024 debate performance with Trump, particularly because he didn’t understand how bad his performance was. [6]

The 2024 presidential election may not have been winnable by Harris, [7] considering the difficult political environment and the breadth of the shifts against her. [8] All 50 states and D.C. trended rightward compared to the 2020 presidential election, the first time they all swung in the same direction since the 1976 presidential election. [9]

Reception

The book was positively reviewed by Jennifer Szalai of The New York Times, though Szalai acknowledged Harris's perspective was biased given she was defending her own record. [10]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Alter, Alexandra (July 31, 2025). "Kamala Harris Sells a Memoir About the 2024 Campaign" . The New York Times . Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  2. ↑ Italie, Hillel (July 31, 2025). "Harris opens up about her historic presidential run after Biden's exit in new memoir, '107 Days'". AP News. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  3. ↑ Obias, Rudie (August 11, 2025). "Kamala Harris' New Book, '107 Days,' Takes an Inside Look at Her 2024 Presidential Bid and the U.S.' "Broken" System". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 18, 2025.
  4. ↑ "Kamala Harris announces international book tour for '107 Days'". NBC News. August 21, 2025. Retrieved September 17, 2025.
  5. ↑ Dovere, Edward-Isaac (September 10, 2025). "In new book, Kamala Harris says it was reckless to let Biden make reelection decision on his own". CNN. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
  6. ↑ Smith, David (September 19, 2025). "'Angry and disappointed': Kamala Harris critical of Joe Biden in new book". The Guardian. Retrieved September 19, 2025. Joe then rattled on about his own former debate performances. 'I beat him the other time; I wasn't feeling well in that last one.' He continued to insist that his debate performance hadn't hurt him much with the electorate. I was barely listening.
  7. ↑ Burn-Murdoch, John (November 7, 2024). "Democrats join 2024's graveyard of incumbents". Financial Times. Retrieved December 5, 2024. The wide variety of places and people who swung towards Trump also suggests an outcome that was more inevitable than contingent. … Biden, Harris and the Democrats are not blameless for Tuesday's decisive defeat. Clearly there are lessons to be learnt. But it's possible there is just no set of policies or personas that can overcome the current global anti-incumbent wave.
  8. ↑ Glasser, Brad (November 8, 2024). "The Democrats join a long list of global parties wrecked by post-pandemic backlash". Semafor.
  9. ↑ Skelley, Geoffrey (December 10, 2024). "America's swing to the right in 2024 was wide, if not always deep". ABC News. Retrieved December 11, 2024. From one presidential election to the next, more states usually swing toward the party that gains ground compared with how it performed four years earlier. However, it's rare for every state to move in the same direction, even in elections where one candidate wins decisively. ... But in 2024, all 50 states and D.C. swung to the right to varying degrees based on their margins versus the 2020 race. This marked the first presidential election since 1976 in which all 51 components of the Electoral College moved in the same direction relative to how they voted four years earlier.
  10. ↑ Szalai, Jennifer (September 18, 2025). "What Happened in the 2024 Election? Kamala Harris Has Some Thoughts". The New York Times. Retrieved September 18, 2025. The new memoir by the former vice president defends her campaign and allows others to criticize Joe Biden and his team for her failure to win.
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