Former Vice President Kamala Harris is stepping back into the national spotlight with her first major news interview since the end of her brief White House bid nearly a year ago. Harris is scheduled to appear live on The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday, Sept. 22, just one day before the release of her forthcoming book, 107 Days.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow announced the appearance during her Sept. 15 broadcast, telling viewers she was eager for the conversation. “She will be here live on set with me for the show,” Maddow said. “I have roughly 400,000 things I want to ask her about, but I will get my chance. We’re going to have that sitdown one-on-one.”
The title of Harris’s book refers to the 107 days between President Joe Biden’s abrupt withdrawal from the 2024 race and former President Donald Trump’s return to the White House last November. In early excerpts published last week, Harris offered a candid assessment of Democrats’ handling of Biden’s candidacy. She described it as “recklessness” that so many party leaders deferred to the president and his wife on whether he should run again.
“‘It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized,” Harris wrote, calling silence on Biden’s health a political mistake.
While Maddow’s interview will mark Harris’s first sit-down with a news anchor since the election, she has not been entirely absent from public life. On July 31, she appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, offering a lighter take on politics and her post-vice presidency.
Harris’s political future remains uncertain. In July, she announced she would not pursue the California governorship in 2026, but she stopped short of ruling out another presidential campaign. At the time, she told supporters that “for now, my leadership – and public service – will not be in elected office.”
Harris currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband, former second gentleman Douglas Emhoff. Whether her reemergence signals the beginning of a new political chapter will be one of the many questions Maddow is expected to press her on.
