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Former Vice President Kamala Harris revealed in her new e book, “107 Days,” that she had quietly tapped Denis McDonough as her selection for chief of workers within the occasion she received the 2024 presidential election.
Whereas Harris admitted that 107 days “weren’t, ultimately, lengthy sufficient to perform the duty of successful the presidency,” her memoir revealed that White Home transition plans have been already in movement for her to imagine the presidency.
“We might deliberate for all the pieces, it appeared, besides the precise outcome,” Harris wrote.
Harris mentioned she determined in early October 2024 that McDonough could be her chief of workers and disclosed within the e book that he had already accepted the provide greater than a month earlier than Election Day.
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Then-Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks, conceding the 2024 presidential election to then-candidate Donald Trump, at Howard College in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6, 2024. (Mike Blake/Reuters)
The previous vp described McDonough as a “deeply caring man who does not mince phrases,” and mentioned she knew he would “run a productive and disciplined West Wing.”
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“Denis McDonough had been Barack Obama’s chief of workers in his second time period, chief of workers on the Nationwide Safety Council earlier than that, and had served as secretary of Veterans Affairs in our administration,” Harris wrote within the e book.
McDonough had most just lately served as Secretary of Veteran Affairs for President Joe Biden’s administration. He was chief of workers to former President Barack Obama from Feb. 2013 to Jan. 2017. McDonough additionally served as Principal Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor from Oct. 2010 to Jan. 2013.
“One of many first public occasions I did as VP was with Denis. It was the peak of COVID. He and his spouse, Karin, and Doug and I took heart-shaped cookies to the nurses on the VA hospital on Valentine’s Day. The son of Irish immigrants, certainly one of eleven youngsters, he taught college in Belize earlier than coming to work in authorities,” Harris wrote of McDonough.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is seen as a visitor on “The Late Present with Stephen Colbert” on July 31, 2025. (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS through Getty Photos)
The ultimate chapters of Harris’ memoir detailed her disbelief because the election outcomes rolled in.
Harris mentioned her workforce had deliberate for “every kind of contingencies,” together with that “Trump would possibly win Pennsylvania and declare untimely victory, that we’d win narrowly and Trump’s supporters would react with violent rejection of the outcome, that the depend would possibly drag on for days.”
However Harris mentioned they did not count on to lose. Harris described within the e book how her social secretary, Storm Horncastle, had ordered champagne and specifically adorned cupcakes.
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“She quietly went to the kitchen and hid all indicators of celebratory preparation. She painstakingly peeled icing that learn ‘Madame President’ off the highest of every cupcake. Having transformed them to innocuous consolation meals, she despatched them out, together with extra wine, in case folks wanted it,” Harris recalled within the e book.
President Donald Trump in the end defeated Harris within the 2024 presidential election, securing 312 electoral votes to Harris’ 226. Her 107-day marketing campaign was the shortest presidential marketing campaign in fashionable historical past after Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, 2024.
McDonough didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
