Kamala Harris is ready to tell the story she’s kept private for nearly a year. On Thursday, Simon & Schuster announced it will publish 107 Days, a memoir by the former vice president chronicling her brief, high-pressure 2024 presidential campaign. The book will be released on September 23 and will be published simultaneously in hardcover, ebook, and audio formats. Harris will narrate.
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“Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign for President of the United States,” Harris says in a video on social media announcing the book. “107 days, traveling the country, fighting for our future—the shortest presidential campaign in modern history. It was intense, high stakes, and deeply personal for me and for so many of you.”
The campaign began unexpectedly after President Joe Biden withdrew from the race in July 2024 and endorsed Harris. She launched her bid that same day. In just over three months, she built a national operation, had a thrilling reception at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, debated Donald Trump, and lost the election, conceding from Howard University with the words: “While I concede this election, I do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign.”
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Appearing Thursday night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Harris said it took “months” after leaving office before she could bear to watch the news again. “I am just not into self-mutilation,” she said. “Lots of cooking shows.”
She said the book is “a behind-the-scenes sharing of what it means to run for president,” and described her nightly ritual of praying, “I hope I have done everything I could do today.”
Harris also recounts certifying Trump’s victory as vice president on January 6, 2025, a symbolic and sobering echo of the insurrection four years earlier. “It was a difficult day to be sure,” she said. “It conjured a lot.”
Harris and Colbert also discussed her decision not to run for governor of California, her disappointment in the institutional response to Trump’s return, and what she described as a broken system. “But that doesn’t mean I’m giving up the fight,” Harris said.
Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp called the memoir “an eyewitness contribution to history.” 37 Ink publisher Dawn Davis added that 107 Days allows readers to be “a fly on the wall” during a high-stakes chapter in American politics.
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Though Harris recently ruled out a 2026 gubernatorial run in California, she made clear she’s not stepping away from the fight. “You can never let anybody take your power from you,” she told Colbert. “And that’s what I’d like to remind folks of.”
Watch Vice President Kamala Harris on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert below.
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