New book reveals what Kamala Harris moaned to her husband during Walzs disastrous VP debate

Former Vice President Kamala Harris detailed her running mate Tim Walz’s debate performance in her new book and recounted a showdown with then-Sen.JD Vance, which ultimately left her disappointed. Harris writes in her new book, “107 Days,” that she needed the Minnesota governor to be the “closer” at the Oct.

1, 2024, debate given that she was not going to have another opportunity to debate Trump.But during the debate, she turned to her husband in frustration.“When Tim fell for it and started nodding and smiling at J.D.’s fake bipartisanship, I moaned to Doug, ‘What is happening?'” Harris wrote, explaining how she believed Walz was duped by Vance’s “mild-mannered aw-shucks” attitude. “I told the television screen: ‘You’re not there to make friends with the guy who is attacking your running mate.’”Harris, who lamented that there was “more riding on Tim’s debate than there should have been,” said that being the “closer” and debating on such a large scale was “not a comfortable role” for Walz. “He had fretted from the outset that he wasn’t a good debater,” Harris wrote.“I’d discounted his concerns.

He was so quick and pithy in front of the crowds at our rallies, I thought he’d bring those qualities to the podium.”Harris referred to Vance as a “shape-shifter” and said he “complained petulantly,” along with more critiques of Walz. “Tim fell into a pattern of defending his record as a governor,” Harris wrote.“Then he fumbled his answer when the moderator, predictably, questioned why he had claimed to be in Hong Kong during the democracy protests in Tiananmen Square.”“Tim had been on his way to teach in China that summer but hadn’t yet left the United States on the date of the massacre.

Instead of simply stating that he’d gotten his dates mixed up, but that being in China during a period of human rights oppression had profoundly influenced him, he talked about biking in Nebraska.”Ha...