Former Vice President Kamala Harris compared her 2024 presidential election rout to the loss of her mother, saying that she grieved her loss to President Donald Trump in a way she hadn’t grieved anything since her mother passed away.
Harris joined the cohosts of ABC’s “The View” to talk about the election and her upcoming memoir, titled “107 Days,” which details the abbreviated and ill-fated presidential campaign upon which she’d embarked after former President Joe Biden bowed out of the race.
After the introductions, cohost Sara Haines kicked things off by complaining that everything had seemed to be on the upswing for Democrats once Biden dropped out of the race in late July, nearly one month after his disastrous televised debate against Trump.
“There seemed to be so much momentum after President Biden stepped aside. There was a renewed sense of hope for Democrats, honestly for everyone. It felt like there was this great option,” Haines said of Harris. “Money was pouring in to the tune of a billion dollars. There were huge crowds at your events and then election night came, and it was 2016 all over again.”
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Kamala compares losing the election to the death of her mother:
“But that night, I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died…And it was — I was — the pain was — it was not at all about losing a race,… pic.twitter.com/H5Yz7wVeLJ— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) September 23, 2025
Harris admitted then that she and her husband, former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, had not talked about election night — because it had been so “traumatic” — before she sat down to write about it in her book.
“That night, I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died … And it was — I was — the pain was — it was not at all about losing a race, I knew what it was going to mean for the country. I was going to say for the family, and that’s how I felt for the country,” she said arguing that her grief was primarily for the country under President Trump’s leadership. “And all I could say over and over again is my God, my God, my God.”