Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro ripped into former Vice President Kamala Harris, accusing her of spreading “blatant lies” about him in her memoir chronicling her failed White House bid.
Shapiro, once on Harris’s shortlist for vice president, flew into a fury when he learned that the former veep, in her campaign tell-all, “107 Days,” described him as arrogant, domineering and captivated by VP perks during the vetting process.
“She wrote that in her book?” Shapiro asked The Atlantic’s Tim Alberta, who highlighted the scathing passages in a sit-down interview published Wednesday.
“That’s complete and utter bulls—t. I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies.”
In her book recounting the 107 days of her doomed campaign, Harris said Shapiro was fixated on the vice presidential residence – measuring drapes, counting bedrooms, and questioning if the Smithsonian would lend Pennsylvania art for display.
Harris wrote that the governor wanted to be “in the room for every decision” if she became president, adding that he often hijacked conversations and frequently needed to be told he wouldn’t have equal power.
Alberta said Shapiro’s reaction shifted between outrage and exasperation while reading the excerpts.
When asked if he felt “betrayed” by the vice president, Shapiro lashed out – accusing her of deflecting the blame for her crushing loss to President Trump, according to the article.
“I mean, she’s trying to sell books and cover her ass,” Shapiro snapped before backtracking.
“I shouldn’t say ‘cover her ass.’ I think that’s not appropriate.”
Harris’s book revisits the period after former President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate and the weeks of internal debate that followed before mounting her 107-day campaign against Trump.
She detailed the vice presidential search, writing that Pete Buttigieg, who is gay, was her “first choice” for running mate but that the pairing was “too big of a risk” due to his sexual orientation.
“We were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man,” Harris wrote in her book.
“Part of me wanted to say, ‘Screw it, let’s just do it.’ But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk.”
Harris ended up picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate.
Shapiro has since emerged as a potential contender for the 2028 presidential race.
