Vice President Kamala Harris is pulling back the curtain on one of the most difficult moments of her political career. While promoting her new memoir, 107 Days, Harris joined the women of The View and revealed for the first time how deeply Election Night 2024 impacted her.
“It wasn’t until I was writing that chapter that Doug and I had ever talked about election night,” Harris shared, referring to her husband, Doug Emhoff. “We had never talked about it. It felt traumatic.”
Harris recalled that Emhoff had been campaigning in Pennsylvania with her brother-in-law, where the energy was high and optimism was overflowing.
Kamala Harris on The View on election night: "That night — I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died. The pain was not at all about losing a race. I knew what it was going to mean for the country … all I could say over and over was 'my God, my God, my God.' It… pic.twitter.com/1ctir9ZDuv
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“People on the ground were like, ‘We got it, we got it, we’re going to do this,’” she said. But things quickly shifted when Emhoff spoke with a friend working inside the Fox News war room who hinted that Pennsylvania wasn’t looking as promising as they hoped.
Not wanting to worry her, Emhoff quietly carried that weight. “My poor husband,” Harris said. “He didn’t want to put that on me. He went upstairs and basically went in the shower and prayed that it was not going to be a bad night.”
When results rolled in, Harris said the devastation went beyond political loss; it was personal, communal, and heavy with what it meant for the country. Surrounded by family and friends, she found herself grieving in a way she hadn’t since losing her mother.
“That night I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died,” she admitted. “The pain was… it was not at all about losing. I knew what it was going to mean for the country. All I could say over and over again was, ‘My God, my God, my God.’”
The candid reflection reveals how Harris processed that night, not just as a political figure, but as a woman, daughter, and leader who understood the ripple effects of the moment.
Her memoir, 107 Days, out today, gives a behind-the-scenes personal account of her journey, balancing public duty with deeply personal experiences.
