In his book 107 Days, Kamala Harris admits that Gaza has turned her electoral defeat against Trump

In his book 107 DaysKamala Harris devotes large passages to the Gaza War and his disagreements with Joe Biden. She says she “begged” the president to demonstrate the same compassion for Palestinian civilians as for Ukrainians, but judges her words always “unsuitable and forced”. According to her, the “white check” granted to Benyamin Netanyahu fed the anger of the left democratic wing and weighed heavily on his campaign.

Harris also describes a tense meeting with Netanyahu in July 2024, whom she accused of wanting to prolong the crisis to promote a return from Donald Trump. Fighter than Biden, she asked for an immediate ceasefire, while denouncing “the ferocity of the Israeli response, the number of Palestinian women and children killed and the lack of priority given to the hostages”. She insists on the need to “cry Israeli and Palestinian sufferings”, while regretting that “very few people agree to hold these two tragedies together”.

Finally, she admits that pro-Palestinian demonstrations have accompanied all of her campaign, until influenced the choice of her running mate, and that the Gaza War has deeply fractured his progressive and Arab-American electorate, contributing to her defeat.