


Former Vice President Kamala Harris continued her book tour Tuesday on ABC’s Good Morning America and she fortunately drew co-host and former NFL player Michael Strahan for the interview, who only asked questions about previous revelations and interviews and did little to pushback on Harris’s lazy answers.
This was Strahan’s first question: “Everyone seems to have their own theory. But why do you feel or believe you lost the 2024 presidential election?”
Hopefully this doesn’t come as a shock, but she didn’t answer the question and instead said all she’s done was write about “an unprecedented election” and ensuring “my voice was present in how that election is — is discussed and covered as part of American history.”
She also peddled this falsehood Strahan refused to fact-check:
Strahan followed with another predictable set of elementary questions about whether “107 days was enough” to pull off a victory and how she would “respond to” “some Democrats who said that you don’t take enough responsibility for the loss”:
Pivoting to the riff with then-President Biden, Strahan wondered “how does that make you feel” Biden has maintained he would have won the race if he didn’t quit. Harris also refused to answer this one, instead focusing on having to certify the election on “January 6…of 2024.” Fact-check: It was 2025.
Strahan was as soft on her as he was on Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife (although one question about alleged domestic abuse drew a weird answer). This was probably his attempt to be tough (click “expand”):
STRAHAN: So many people felt that President Biden should not have run for reelection. And he wrote in the book that it was “Joe and Jill’s decision and other Democrats decided it was Joe and Jill’s decision.” But do you regret not voicing your opinion in that moment?
HARRIS: Yes. And I actually have reflected on that and written about that.
STRAHAN: Wouldn’t have mattered if you did?
HARRIS: I don’t know. I don’t know, but I can only take responsibility for myself.
STRAHAN: Mmhmm
HARRIS: And on reflection — you know, and I talk about it in the context of asking the question of myself, was that grace to not bring it up to him was it reckless? And on my part, I do reflect on that and feel that it was a recklessness about not raising it with him. I talk about what was going through my head, right? What was going through my head to not bring it up is that it would come off as being very self-serving, and therefore maybe lacked the credibility that it deserved, but I do think about it. I do think about it. And I also say, though, and I speak extensively about this, my concern about him running for reelection was completely separate from my admiration —
STRAHAN: Mmhmm.
HARRIS: — and knowledge about his capacity to serve as president of the United States. Which was consistent and never wavered.
Next came the unintentional takeaway from the interview, in which she argued Biden was fit for president, but unfit to campaign for president. Notice too how he then asked about the book excerpt about a Biden phone call moments before her debate with Donald Trump, but Harris ignored it to attack Trump (click “expand”)
STRAHAN: When we sit here today, do you think he would’ve been up for running the country for four more years?
HARRIS: Here’s the distinction I make, and having had the experience myself. It is one thing to have the capacity to govern. It is another thing to go through an election for president of the United States. So, you are an athlete, and you may appreciate this kind of metaphor. Running for president of the United States is like being in a marathon at a sprinter’s pace, with people throwing tomatoes at you every step you take. It is not for the lighthearted and it takes an incredible amount of endurance and stamina and could you imagine doing it while you are also carrying literally the weight of the world as being president of the United States? So, the distinction I make about capacity to be president, and what that election would require and that campaign, especially running against Donald Trump.
STRAHAN: Running against Trump, you had that big debate we all watched. And you said leading up to that debate, you got a call the day of. The call came from President Biden to let you know he was angry and disappointed. What did he say to you?
HARRIS: So, he called me, and again, listen, this book — I’m being candid in this book about the behind-the-scenes what happened. In a way that I hope is helpful for people to understand what that all was. And part of that call that he made to me, the afternoon before the debate, was to wish me luck. But also to talk about something that was more in his interest that it was in mine, especially in the context of the time, but let me also say this that a large part of why this book has been written, and why I wrote it, is I want to remind the American people. And there’s so many stories I tell about in those 107 days, being with tens of thousands of people, Michael. People who seemingly have nothing in common. Who had enthusiasm and optimism and hope about the future of our country. And — and I talk about it now and always, we are living in very dark times. These are troubling times. And I hope and pray that when people read this book, they will remember the light that they had that cannot be diminished by the outcome of one election, or the — the existence of one individual. That light exists in all of us, and we have to see it in each other and let that propel us through these dark days.
STRAHAN: And we see — we see your passion for politics. We see your passion for the country.
Showing how political interviews are not something he should be doing, he closed by reiterating things Harris has already said, such as not running for governor and the predictable 2028 that Harris would also predictably dodge.
Strahan actually left her most uncomfortable with this question: “[D]o you think that writing this book could have burned some bridges though, that could help you politically?”
This triggered a Harris bender about the left not needing “a messiah and a savior” but instead a message then suddenly stopping by telling people to buy her book.
To see the relevant ABC transcript from September 23, click here.