Bill Maher rips Kamala Harris’ book, says it should have been called, ‘Everyone Sucks but Me’
“Real Time” host Bill Maher criticized former Vice President Kamala Harris’ book during his HBO show on Friday, suggesting a new title for her account of the 2024 campaign.
“Kamala Harris’s new memoir of the ’24 election is called ‘107 Days,’ but should have been called ‘Everyone Sucks but Me,'” Maher said, met with applause from his guest, CNN political commentator Van Jones.
“‘107 Days’ is a victim’s title because, get it, she only had 107 days to win. Yeah. Uh, and a billion and a half dollars and a built-in army of about 75 million people who’d vote for any human-adjacent life form that wasn’t Trump.”
Harris’ book, released in late September, recounts her historically short presidential campaign up until she ultimately lost to President Trump.
“But in ‘107 Days,’ nothing is ever Kamala’s fault. Biden lets her down by not stepping down sooner. Pouty face emoji. Gavin Newsom, he was asked for his endorsement, but texted, ‘hiking, will call back,’ but then never did. And then he didn’t even ask her to prom,” Maher joked.
Harris named multiple Democrats in her book, including Newsom, whom she tried to contact about endorsements after President Biden exited the race. She shared notes from those calls, including one about the California governor that read, “Hiking. Will call back. (He never did.)”
Maher also criticized Harris for revealing that she didn’t pick former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate because she felt it was a “risk” due to his being a gay man.
“America itself lets Kamala down by not being ready for the running mate she really wanted, Pete Buttigieg. So she’s stuck with the Home Depot paint salesman, and the rest is history,” he said, referring to her former running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
In the book, 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,” she added. “And I think Pete also knew that — to our mutual sadness.”
Harris’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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