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107 Days
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Chapters 1-6Chapter Summaries & Analyses
Chapter 1 Summary: “July 21: 107 Days to the Election”
On July 21, 2024, Kamala Harris prepared breakfast in the vice president’s residence for her visiting grandnieces and sat down to complete a jigsaw puzzle. In the middle of the puzzle, at 1:11 pm, President Biden called Harris’s secure phone. Sounding “exhausted,” he told Harris he was dropping out of the race and planned to endorse her as the Democratic candidate for president. He wanted to make the announcement to the public that day and endorse Harris a few days later. Harris worried this move would be “ruinous” and urged the president to endorse her immediately.
Chapter 2 Summary: “June 27: 131 Days to the Election”
On June 27, 2024, President Joe Biden debated Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate. A few days prior, Harris had spoken to the president in the middle of his grueling debate prep at Camp Davis. Biden had a cold and was dreading the debate, which many of his advisors had suggested he forgo altogether due to rising concerns about his age and memory. Harris sat down to watch the president with a “gnawing feeling.” Biden started speaking in a “thready voice” with “no light in his eyes” (14). His performance only worsened as the debate went on. Biden was correcting himself, often “sounding hesitant and garbled,” while Trump spoke, “unburdened by the truth” (14).
