Former Vice President Kamala Harris is continuing the narrative that the 2024 presidential election was the “closest” of the 21st Century — despite evidence to the contrary.
Harris was in Houston, Texas, Saturday, for her book tour to promote her book “107 Days.” She also took time to promote herself as she called her 3.5 month campaign “unprecedented.”
“Here’s the other thing that is quite unprecedented — and, it was the tightest, closest presidential election in the 21st Century,” Harris said. “He does not have a mandate! That is not a mandate! That is not a mandate!”
The “he” in this scenario is President Donald Trump, who defeated Harris in 2024 and who she said “had been running for 10 years.”
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“And he never did!” an attendee yelled from the audience in the the Hobby Center for Performing Arts.
Harris has made the claim of the 2024 election being the “closest” of the century.
She made the claim Sept. 27 at her alma mater, Howard University and during an appearance on MSNBC.
But the truth of the matter is that Harris was not the closest in neither the popular nor the electoral vote in 2024, per Mediaite.
Trump garnered the most tallies in the electoral college, defeating Harris 312-226 — the widest margin since 2012.
Former Vice John Kerry in 2004, former Secretary of State Clinton in 2016 and Trump in 2020 all had closer margins than Harris.
She also was not closest in the popular vote. That honor goes to Clinton, who won the popular vote in 2016, but lost the election.
Harris went on to say she missed the “optimism, enthusiasm, and dare I say, joy” that was part of her 2024 campaign.
Those feelings are still alive and need to stay alive, she said.
“And no one election or individual or circumstance can take that from you. It is the light that we each carry inside of us, it is the light we see in each other… it is the light that carries us, in particular right now, during the darkest of times,” Harris said. “And we cannot lose sight of that or let that light be in any way extinguished.”
