Former Vice President Kamala Harris made a recent appearance on ABC’s The View, where she stated that the 2024 presidential race was “the closest presidential race in the 21st century in terms of the outcome,” a comment that led to a rousing round of applause from the audience. It also prompted co-host Ana Navarro to say, “You know, say that again because he likes to say over and over again that he got a mandate.”
In response to Navarro, Harris said, “Well, and that’s part of why I wrote the book, because history will talk about this race. It is part of American history. And it was important to me that when history is written, that my voice be present.” The only problem with Harris’ statement is that, as usual, it isn’t true. President Donald Trump won the popular vote by 2 million votes. He also won the Electoral College vote by 86 points.
In fact, according to a report published by Fox News, the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore was far closer than the Trump and Harris race, both in terms of the popular vote and Electoral College vote. This fact was pointed out by a user on social media platform X, who shared a clip from the episode.
According to Fox, Harris, who was on the program to promote her new book, “107 Days,” which is a rehash of her failed presidential campaign, in which she also said the biggest reason she lost to Trump was due to not having enough time to campaign. “There are many factors I think that played into the outcome of that election, but I think probably one of the biggest in my mind is, we just didn’t have enough time,” she stated.
Navarro prompted Harris’ answer, stating she believed that the former vice president had the whole race sewn up going into election night, but was shocked that Trump still defeated her. “I felt so good going into Election Day, and then I read in the book that you did too. I went into Election Day thinking you were going to win,” the co-host said.
“So did you,” Navarro said, to which Harris replied, “Yeah. I did.” Navarro chimed back in, saying, “So — I mean, it was a very tight race — but, ultimately, if you have to pin it down to one thing, what was the primary reason, do you think, that you lost?” Harris then blamed her loss on only having four months to campaign after stepping in to replace former President Joe Biden.
Biden opted to step down as the Democratic Party nominee after a horrifically bad debate performance against Trump in June. Harris then told the co-hosts of the show that the whole situation was unprecedented. “And, you know, I mean, one of the reasons I wrote the book is this is unprecedented. Think about this, that there is a race for President of the United States,” she said.
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“The current sitting president is running for re-election. Three-and-a-half months from the election, he decides not to run,” the former vice president continued. “The sitting vice president then takes the mantle, running against a former president of the United States who had been running for ten years — with 107 days until the election.”
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