Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro profanely disputed stories in former Vice President Kamala Harris’ memoir of the 2024 presidential campaign during an interview with The Atlantic published Wednesday.
Then-Vice President Harris bypassed Shapiro in favor of Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz when selecting her running mate for the 2024 presidential campaign in August of that year. Shapiro appeared to get angry as excerpts from the book regarding his meeting with Harris to discuss the vice-presidential slot on the Democratic ticket were read to him by Tim Alberta during the interview.
“She wrote that in her book? That’s complete and utter bullshit.” an agitated Shapiro asked Alberta. “I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies.”
President Donald Trump defeated Harris in the presidential election, securing the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the presidency early in the morning on Nov. 6, 2024.
Harris faced pressure from left-wing Democrats, including Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman of New York, to not select Shapiro, claiming he was too pro-Israel and also over his past support of school choice measures.
Harris’ account painted Shapiro as a potential problem, and she reportedly questioned if she could trust him as her running mate. Harris also claimed that Shapiro peppered the residence manager of the Naval Observatory with questions about acquiring artwork from Pennsylvania artists and the bedroom.
“I did ask a bunch of questions,” Shapiro admitted to Alberta during the interview. “Wouldn’t you ask questions if someone was talking to you about forming a partnership and working together?”
In the interview, Shapiro also criticized President Barack Obama and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for comments he felt insulted Americans who weren’t living on the West Coast or East Coast.
“I think his understanding of the challenges in those communities was real. But I think instead of offering his prescription for how he’d make it better, he insulted the very folks who were suffering,” Shapiro said of Obama’s comments, noting that both Obama’s comments about how some “cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment” were made during a fundraiser in San Francisco, while Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment came at a New York fundraiser.
“We can’t ignore the fact that elections are binary choices. And so you’re asking people, at least in the last case, to choose between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump,” Shapiro told Alberta. “We can have this kind of theoretical conversation about Trump, but, like, it was always Trump versus somebody.”
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