Joy Reid senses Kamala Harris’s quiet alarm during their book discussion, hinting at deeper emotional challenges the VP faces.NH
Kamala Harris sat for an interview with former MSNBC host Joy Reid at her LA home to promote her new book on her presidential run, “107 Days,” but talked more about Donald Trump than Joe Biden.
Harris is currently on tour promoting the book, and Reid exclusively told Page Six there were no parameters set for the interview.
But the former VP was less forthcoming answering Reid’s questions about the Biden administration, despite the book offering candid anecdotes about her time running for office under his administration.
“This book is not about Joe Biden. It’s actually not about my vice presidency — where and when I talk about it, it’s to contextualize 107 days,” Harris said.
Reid interviewed former Veep Harris for “The Joy Reid Show” on YouTube.
The political host told Page Six she believes Harris was “reticent to really go there” out of loyalty to Biden.
She added, “There was a little bit of sadness in her that I’m not used to seeing. She usually has a deeply joyful spirit… She’s carrying a lot of sadness and alarm about what’s happening in the country,” Reid said.
During the interview, Reid also brought up Trump’s 2024 appearance at a National Association of Black Journalists convention, where he asserted Harris “happened to turn black” for political reasons.
“I was born black, and I will die black,” Harris defiantly told Reid in the new interview.
Harris, whose father is black Jamaican and mom was Indian, previously dismissed Trump’s comments about her race as the “same old tired playbook.” It was a big topic during the election cycle with even pop stars like Janet Jackson getting caught in the middle.
Harris further told Reid, she wrote the book because, “it was a historic race.”
“It really reads as a political thriller that is nonfiction. A president of the United States, running for reelection, three and a half months from the election, decides not to run. The sitting vice president takes up the race against a former president of the United States, with 107 days to go. That’s what the book is about. It’s about what that experience was,” Harris said.
