Wearing an all-white suit and her signature silk press, former Vice President Kamala Harris took the stage to Victoria Monét’s “On My Mama,” greeted by a packed audience at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. The event marked the final stop of her book tour promoting 107 Days, a memoir recounting the whirlwind of her historic presidential campaign.
For an hour inside the Ziff Ballet Opera House, Harris sat across from moderator Ana Navarro, co-host of The View and longtime political analyst, for a candid conversation about the highs and heartbreaks of her run for the White House. She described in detail the moment former President Joe Biden called to inform her of his decision to leave the race and endorse her — a turning point she recounts in the book — and her eventual election night loss to Donald Trump, which she described as the hardest chapter to write.
“When you’ve gone through something that’s that traumatic, it takes a while before you can really talk about it,” Harris told the audience. Still, she approached difficult topics, including whether racism and sexism shaped the outcome of the race, with honesty and optimism. “I believe that people are embracing the idea that there might be somebody in that position who has never looked or been like that before but can be a leader,” she said. “I may be the first to do anything, but I will not be the last.”
The conversation shifted to the anxieties gripping the country — economic uncertainty, political division, and the impending release of case files involving Jeffrey Epstein. “We still have some work to do around bringing justice to vulnerable people,” Harris said. She also denounced Donald Trump’s use of the Department of Justice to target political opponents, calling it a “destruction of the rule of law.”
Harris reflected on the challenge of balancing her responsibilities as sitting vice president with the demands of a national campaign, particularly in battleground states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. She did not say whether she plans to run again, despite a shout of “2028” from the audience, but she left Miami with a message of persistence.
“We cannot ever let our spirit be defeated,” she said. “The fight sometimes takes a while, but you don’t give up — because we can’t.”
