New details from former Vice President Kamala Harris’ upcoming memoir “107 Days” reveal her account of an angry phone call she got from former President Joe Biden, according to multiple reports. She also noted that she had much more pleasant phone conversations with President Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign.
Angry Biden calls ahead of debate
Harris said shortly before a debate with Trump that she received a phone call from Biden. He claimed she had bad-mouthed him to donors and demanded to know why. The former vice president reportedly said the conversation caught her off guard.
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“My head had to be right,” she reportedly wrote. “I had to be completely in the game. I just couldn’t understand why he would call me, right now, and make it all about himself.”
In the September phone call, Harris said Biden told her that he heard of her criticisms from his brother, and that “power brokers” in Philadelphia threatened to withdraw support for her over the incident, according to an excerpt obtained by The New York Times.
Cordial calls with Trump
The Times also reported that following an attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump and Harris had a cordial phone call.
“You’ve done a great job, you really have,” Trump reportedly told Harris. “My only problem is, it makes it very hard for me to be angry at you. It’s like, what am I going to do? How do I say bad things about you now?
“Well, then don’t,” she quipped.
“I’m going to tone it down,” Trump said. “I will. You’re going to see.”
According to The Times, Trump told the former vice president that his daughter Ivanka was a “big fan” and asked her to send a greeting from him to her husband.
The second phone call came on election night when Harris conceded the race to Trump.
“I am going to be nice and respectful,” Trump is reported to have said. “You are a tough, smart customer, and I say that with great respect. And you also have a beautiful name.”
She said he then properly pronounced Kamala after mispronouncing it throughout the campaign.
Other excerpts detail controversies
The latest revelations come after an excerpt obtained by The Atlantic this week, in which she acknowledged that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was her first choice for a running mate. However, she said she did not pick him because of her belief that the nation was not ready to elect both a Black woman and gay man to the White House.
Buttigieg: Give ‘Americans more credit’
Buttigieg has since responded. He told Politico that Harris should give “Americans more credit” and said he was “surprised” to read the excerpt.
“My experience in politics has been that the way you earn trust with voters is based mostly on what they think you’re going to do for their lives, not on categories,” Buttigieg said.
He added that Harris’ concerns over his potential selection were “not something we ever talked about.”
Biden’s attempt to run ‘recklessness’
Harris, in another excerpt obtained by The Atlantic, criticized Biden’s initial attempt to run for a second term as “recklessness.” Buttigieg also said that Biden “should not have run, and if he made that decision sooner, [Democrats] might have been better off.”
“107 Days” is set for release on Sept. 23.
