What’s Not Said in 107 Days

[This is the second in a series of three reports on 107 Days, the book about Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.]

After the first post, Justin Other Lawyer commented, “You are so cruel.” So, out of the goodness of my heart, this second post is not about what’s in this “memoir” but rather what’s not in the book.

A lot is missing. Things such as common sense, political acumen, and, well, honesty, but I’m limiting this post to just five topics that weren’t discussed in 107 Days.

1. How Much Money Was Spent by the Harris Campaign

Instead of being numbered sequentially, the book’s chapters are a countdown to the election that includes the date and the number of days until Election Day.

In the chapter October 17: 21 Days to the Election, “Harris” wrote this:

“And then, like most guys who watch a lot of sports, Doug (the Second Gentleman of the United States) started seeing the trans ads. No matter what he was watching -- football, baseball–– there they were. The Trump campaign would eventually spend as much as $40 million on those ads. They showed some version of it fifty-five times in the seven swing states. They showed it in all fifty states during sports broadcasts… Trump’s team wasn’t concerned with nuance. With the tag line ‘Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you,” they thought they had a winning message.”

The ads, of course, simply had actual footage of Harris arguing for the government to pay for sexual reassignment surgery for those in prison. She obviously couldn’t argue against the substance of the ad because that was her position on the issue.

The book also has a rant about Elon Musk’s contest to give a million-dollar prize to a different voter every day. The author(s) of the book are outraged by these expenditures—$40 million on trans ads. If Musk had given a prize for every day covered in a book, that would be $107 million. And yet, nowhere in the book is there a mention of how much was spent on the Harris campaign. Reports indicate the campaign spent $1.5 billion, which would be an average of $100 million a week. Some estimate that if outside groups are included, the amount would be closer to $2 billion.

Based on my own quick research, I figure the Trump campaign spent approximately $500 million. I’m no math whiz, but looking at the amounts the book complains about, my calculations look like this: $1,500,000,000 > $500,000,000

The Harris campaign ended in debt. It seems that Trump spent his money much more effectively than Harris spent hers. Perhaps we can tell something about how someone will govern by how they campaign?

2. Trump Closes the Border

The book includes an Afterword with complaints about many of the things Trump has done since coming into office: “As of this writing, of its 316 objectives, 114 have been fully realized and 64 more are already in progress.” The pardon of January 6th "rioters," “the destruction of scientific research aimed at fighting our worst diseases and the climate crisis,” and so much more were mentioned as examples of Trump’s evil deeds.

There is no mention of sealing off the border, or how the flow of migrants came to a virtual standstill after years of thousands crossing every day. It’s strange this didn’t get mentioned, since earlier in the book, there’s discussion of the impossibility of Harris’s task as “border Czar” to do that very thing because Republicans would not cooperate with Biden’s plans.

3. Welfare Fraud in Minnesota

The book dwells for a time on the choice of a vice presidential candidate. Of course, the record and background of the contenders were researched. For instance, the findings showed that Pete Buttigieg was gay, and Harris didn’t believe America was ready for a black woman AND a gay man in the highest offices. Her final list came down to Mark Kelly (retired astronaut), Josh Shapiro (popular governor), and Tim Walz (retired assistant football coach and amateur mechanic).

With millions upon millions of dollars at the campaign’s disposal, it’s reasonable to assume that adequate research could be done on three people. The New York Times claims they did an article on the day care fraud scandal in Minnesota in 2018, so it’s also reasonable to expect that issue would be included in the vetting of potential candidates.

It’s certainly made the news since the election.

And yet, Harris claims, her “senior staff, to a person, strongly favored Tim.” No one was concerned about the corruption. It didn’t get a mention in this book. As Walz might say, that’s weird.

4. Biden’s Prostate Cancer

In May of 2025, the news broke that Joe Biden had prostate cancer. Even in that afterword, it’s not mentioned. Nowhere does the book say that Biden was not mentally or physically fit to serve another term.

In fact, after the infamous 2024 Biden/Trump debate, Harris said, “So I’m not going to spend all night with you talking about the last ninety minutes when I’ve been watching the last three and a half years of performance.”

But then George Clooney wrote that supposedly mean op-ed about Biden in The New York Times, and the president had to drop out of the race. Certainly, there is no indication in the book that the administration was deceiving the public about Joe Biden’s competence.

5. The Ghostwriting Scandal

The topic for the chapter “October 14: 22 Days to the Election” is how the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post made the editorial decision not to make an endorsement in the presidential race. Another story broke that day. Accusations emerged that large sections of Kamala Harris’ 2008 book Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer were from other unacknowledged sources.

J.D. Vance pushed the story, noting the work of ghostwriter Joan O’C Hamilton. Vance tweeted, “LMAO Kamala didn’t even write her own book! I wrote my own book, unlike Kamala Harris, who copied hers from Wikipedia.” The tweet went on: “Cue the corporate media ‘fact-checkers,’ who replied, ‘Vance’s tweet is missing important context. Kamala Harris only copied some of her book from Wikipedia.’”

I found it rather surprising that the subject of ghostwriting didn’t come up in this book. I wonder why that was.

I will be writing one more post about this… um… piece of work. Thank you for your attention to this matter.