Kamala Harris wrote a memoir that greatly angered Democrats.

Harris's book, "107 Days," hasn't been officially released yet, but it's already sparked outrage among several likely 2028 presidential contenders, including Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and former Transportation Commissioner Pete Buttigieg, writes Politico.

Judging by the reviews of prominent representatives of the Democratic Party, the book made a grave impression on the political environment.

"If there's any political strategy here, it's a bad one. There's too much finger-pointing and blame-shifting, which doesn't advance the political agenda," said David Axelrod, a longtime senior adviser to 44th President Barack Obama.

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The book would have attracted the attention of party insiders in any case: the Democratic Party is reluctant to revisit its second painful defeat to Donald Trump last year. But Harris is forcing them to return to the topic.

The 300-page memoir, written in the form of a chronological diary of a short election campaign, reads, on the one hand, as a defense of Harris's political legacy, and, on the other, as an admission of her own miscalculations and a frank denunciation of her party comrades.

It was this last part that stirred up political chats across the country.

"The question is, what was the intent? Is this some kind of score-settling, since she won't be running again, or is this some kind of cleansing, a way to shift blame and then say, 'Give me another chance?'" veteran Democrat Pete Giangreco wrote.

When excerpts from the book began to leak to the press, many Democrats perceived Harris's memoir as a farewell speech.

"It reads like 'goodbye, politics,'" admitted an anonymous Democratic national strategist.

One of Harris's closest allies said the book was not intended as a final renunciation of a public service career.

"I wouldn't advise anyone to draw that conclusion," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity. He added that Harris's book extensively explores her experience in foreign policy as vice president and defends the Biden-Harris administration's achievements, which likely suggests a desire to strengthen her position for a potential future campaign.

Harris's supporters see the memoir as a long-awaited opportunity to tell the story of the 2024 election from her perspective—more candidly than expected. The dry, almost formal tone also weaves in personal moments, such as her resentment at her husband, Doug, for forgetting to give her a birthday present.

But even some of her fans were uneasy about Harris' assessment that including Buttigieg, an openly gay man, would be too risky for a team led by "a Black woman who is married to a Jewish man."

Buttigieg said he was "surprised" by such statements and assured that "Americans should be trusted more." (Pete Buttigieg is the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020. He rose to national prominence during the 2020 Democratic primaries as a candidate for U.S. President. He has served as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation in the Biden administration since 2021. Buttigieg is the first openly gay secretary of the department in the country's history. He married Chasten Glezman in 2018. – Note.)

And that wasn't the only attack. In her book, Harris praises Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his family, admitting that she chose him as her second choice.

Harris writes that Shapiro, who was a finalist for her vice presidential nominee, ultimately struck her as too ambitious to be trusted as her second-in-command. In one episode, she recalls the Pennsylvania governor seemingly furnishing the vice presidential residence, mulling over which Pennsylvania artists he might hang there. A spokesperson for Shapiro called the suggestion that he was focused on anything other than defeating Trump "utterly ridiculous."

Shapiro responded by saying Harris should explain why she did not declare earlier that then-President Joe Biden was no longer eligible to run again.

Harris's relationship with Biden is a tense thread in the book. She acknowledges the octogenarian president's "recklessness" in seeking reelection and cites instances of his erratic behavior, such as calling her before the debate with Trump to relay his brother's complaints that Harris was not loyal enough.

However, the author defends Biden, noting his excellent understanding of policy issues. The harshest assessments of Biden in the book come not from Harris, but from her political advisers. She repeatedly emphasizes that the principle of loyalty was paramount for her as vice president.

The duality may reflect the former president and vice president's complex relationship, but it's unlikely to allay questions about what Harris knew about Biden's physical and mental state and how much responsibility she bears for the fact that she has just 107 days left to run her own campaign.

Some Democrats dismissed the book controversy as a temporary phenomenon. An adviser to a potential 2028 candidate, who asked not to be named, said, "She's gone after everyone, and it doesn't matter—that's why the book hasn't resonated. It's clear to everyone that the response has been collective skepticism, because everyone worked so hard for her and her campaign."

But other Democrats saw a more serious problem with the book: its depiction of the difficulties of a fast-paced race and, they said, its failure to understand why she lost.

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"If she had won the presidency, and it had been a story about how she overcame obstacles within the Democratic Party and prevailed, that would have been interesting," concluded Adam Green, co-founder of the Committee for Progressive Change. "But none of that matters now. Shapiro, who was 'picking pictures' [for his future cabinet], is a drop in the bucket compared to the fact that Harris intuitively failed to connect with the working class in a year when that was the key to victory."

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