Former Vice President Kamala Harris said on “Storehouse & Friends” Sunday that she was determined to prevent President Donald Trump from beating her at “three-dimensional chess” during her 2024 presidential campaign.
Harris lost all seven swing states and the national popular vote to Trump in 2024. The former vice president said on the show that she recognized the Trump campaign’s strategy and sought to ensure it did not affect her own.
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“I was aware of my opponent’s strategy. And I wasn’t about to fall prey or fall into those traps,” Harris said.” And part of his strategy, and those around him, was to try and take me off our game and message.”
“And I wasn’t about to be distracted by those flames that he was trying to throw to get me away from one of my highest priorit[ies], which was talking to people about the economy and their well-being, in terms of their financial well-being,” she added. “I understood the game that was being played and I made a decision that I wasn’t going to get played.”
Harris then cackled for several seconds while at least one of the hosts said, “Chess, not checkers.”
“Yeah. Three-dimensional chess,” Harris responded.
Harris was on the show to promote her memoir “107 Days.” During her media tour, she has asserted a significant reason for her loss was that she only had 107 days to campaign after former President Joe Biden dropped out and endorsed her on July 21, 2024. When she made the claim on “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart” in October, host Jon Stewart told Harris he believed she actually would have won had her campaign been shorter.
“I do believe one of the biggest factors that was at play in the 107 days — we just didn’t have enough time,” Harris said. “We didn’t have enough time.”
“Or was it too much time? I mean, if you had done the election after 60 days, I think you win, honestly,” Stewart replied. “There seemed like a stagnation point. And then if you look at the lines … what would have changed?”
Toward the end of the campaign on Oct. 20, 2024, Trump donned an apron and served up french fries at a McDonald’s restaurant in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. The stunt was a jab at Harris, who claimed she worked at McDonald’s while in college, though Trump and media reports disputed her claim.
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