In a blistering monologue that left even his liberal audience wincing, comedian and “Real Time” host Bill Maher took a flamethrower to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ new memoir *107 Days*, accusing her of rewriting history to cast herself as the perpetual victim in her failed presidential run.
Maher, who’s never been shy about skewering the Left’s sacred cows, mocked Harris for blaming everyone — from Joe Biden to Gavin Newsom to the American people — for her campaign’s spectacular implosion. “It should’ve been called *‘Everyone Sucks But Me,’*” Maher quipped, drawing laughter from the crowd. “She only had 107 days to win. Yeah, and a billion and a half dollars, and a built-in army of about 75 million people who’d vote for any human-adjacent life form that wasn’t Trump.”
Harris’s campaign, launched in the political chaos following Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the 2024 race, had every structural advantage the Democratic machine could provide — over $1.5 billion in funding, celebrity endorsements, and the support of multiple former presidents. Yet, when the dust settled, she lost both the Electoral College *and* the popular vote to Donald J. Trump, leaving behind roughly $20 million in debt and a party still reeling from the loss.
“In *107 Days,* nothing is Kamala’s fault,” Maher continued. “Biden lets her down by not stepping down sooner — pouty face emoji.”
The book reportedly portrays Harris as the misunderstood heroine of her own political drama, undone not by her record or rhetoric, but by disloyal allies and a country that supposedly wasn’t “ready” for her leadership. She recounts trying to secure an endorsement from California Gov. Gavin Newsom — only to be brushed off with a text that read, “Hiking, will call back.” According to Maher, “He didn’t even ask her to prom.”
Even more bizarrely, Harris admits she originally wanted Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as her running mate, but decided America wasn’t “ready” for both a black female president and a gay vice president. Maher, never one to miss an opportunity for a punchline, called out her identity politics for what it was: “America itself lets Kamala down by not being ‘ready’ for the running mate she really wanted, Pete Buttigieg, so she’s stuck with the Home Depot paint salesman.” (That jab was aimed squarely at her eventual pick, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.)
The comedian skewered the tone of Harris’s memoir as self-pitying and delusional — comparing it to a bad romantic comedy. “Poor Kamala,” he joked. “We made her the star of a rom-com and didn’t even give her a gay best friend.”
In one unintentionally comic moment from the book, Harris describes her campaign staff preparing “Madame President” cupcakes for election night — only for an aide to whisk them away before the defeated team could see them. “It’s like a scene from *Bridget Jones Runs for President,*” Maher deadpanned.
The HBO host also took aim at his fellow media elites, slamming the hosts of *The View* for their silence after comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension over his remarks following conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination. “It wasn’t a good look for the women’s party,” Maher sneered, “that all the guys were speaking out for Jimmy Kimmel when Trump went after him — except on *The View,* where for five days the outspoken hosts were suddenly as quiet as a geisha.”
He concluded with a final barb: “Then on the fifth day they rose and said, ‘No one silences us.’ No one had to; you silenced yourself. Five days? Talk about needing extra time to get ready.”
Maher’s takedown of Harris highlights something many Americans — even some Democrats — have long recognized: Kamala Harris’s failures weren’t the fault of the patriarchy, racism, or her campaign staff. They were the result of her own incompetence, arrogance, and political tone-deafness.
Once hailed as the “future of the Democratic Party,” Harris now seems stuck in the past — reliving her short-lived campaign through a memoir that reads more like a therapy session than an honest reflection.
As Maher put it bluntly: “At some point, maybe Kamala should stop blaming everyone else and start looking in the mirror.”
