Top Dem. Gov. Puts Kamala Harris on Blast Over Her 'Blatant Lies': 'Complete and Utter Bullsh*t'
“I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies.”
Kamala Harris’s post-election memoir, 107 Days, was supposed to be her definitive account of the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.
Instead, it has triggered an open revolt inside the Democratic Party, with one of the party’s most prominent rising stars publicly branding her version of events “complete and utter bullshit.”
In a blistering interview with The Atlantic published Wednesday, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro unloaded on Harris after being read passages describing his 2024 vice-presidential vetting session.
“She wrote that in her book? That’s complete and utter bullshit,” Shapiro said, visibly agitated. “I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies.”
The confrontation marks the most direct intraparty attack yet on Harris’s book, which has already drawn private fury from multiple Democratic governors, cabinet alumni, and major donors. Sources tell this outlet that the Shapiro episode is merely the public tip of a much larger iceberg of resentment over how Harris is assigning blame for her 49-state electoral collapse.
At issue is Harris’s portrayal of Shapiro as overbearing and untrustworthy during their August 2024 meeting at the Naval Observatory. The book claims Shapiro bombarded the residence manager with questions about acquiring Pennsylvania artwork and, extraordinarily, which bedroom he would occupy as vice president.
Harris uses the anecdote to justify bypassing the popular swing-state governor in favor of Minnesota’s Tim Walz.
Shapiro pushed back hard. “I did ask a bunch of questions,” he told The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta. “Wouldn’t you ask questions if someone was talking to you about forming a partnership and working together?”
Multiple Democratic strategists familiar with the vetting process confirmed to this outlet that Shapiro’s inquiries were entirely routine and that Harris’s framing appears designed to retroactively rationalize a decision driven by pressure from the party’s progressive wing, which objected to Shapiro’s pro-Israel record and past support for school-choice measures.
The book has also sparked private denunciations from other potential 2028 contenders. California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s allies have called Harris’s claim that he “never” returned her call after Biden’s withdrawal “flat-out fiction.” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has privately disputed her suggestion that his sexual orientation factored into her decision.
Compounding the damage are documented factual errors. Harris misidentifies one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack and incorrectly labels Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht a “fentanyl dealer,” inaccuracies that have fueled accusations of petty score-settling.
The memoir’s release comes as Harris’s campaign finances are in shambles. FEC filings show the operation raised more than 1.5 billion dollars yet finished roughly 20 million dollars in debt after lavish spending on celebrity concerts, private jets, and last-minute advertising in non-competitive states.
Prominent Democrats including James Carville, megadonor John Morgan, and DNC finance committee member Lindy Li have demanded independent audits, with some openly accusing the campaign of mismanagement bordering on donor malpractice.
Shapiro, widely viewed as a leading 2028 contender, used the interview to deliver a broader indictment of Democratic elite condescension. He criticized Barack Obama’s 2008 “cling to guns or religion” remark and Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment as emblematic of the party’s coastal disconnect, comments both made at high-dollar fundraisers in San Francisco and New York.
“We can’t ignore the fact that elections are binary choices,” Shapiro said. “And so you’re asking people, at least in the last case, to choose between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump… it was always Trump versus somebody.”
Translation from a seasoned Democratic governor: Harris was a deeply flawed nominee, the loss was entirely foreseeable, and rewriting history in a tell-all won’t change that math.
As one senior Democratic strategist put it off the record, “She raised a billion dollars, lost every swing state, and now she’s throwing everyone else under the bus. No wonder the party is furious.”
Kamala Harris, a politician once undemocratically selected to lead the Democratic Party, only to fail in her task to defeat their arch-nemesis Donald J. Trump, is uniting her colleagues in agreement that her future in politics, in Josh Shapiro’s memorable phrasing, is “complete and utter bullshit.”