It turns out Kamala Harris wasn’t just out of touch with everyday Americans — she was out of touch with reality. According to a bombshell new book by D.C. insiders Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, the former vice president was “completely shocked” to lose the 2024 election to President Donald Trump. And judging by how things played out behind closed doors, her whole campaign staff may as well have been reading tea leaves instead of polling data.
The book, Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, reveals a brutal truth: the Democratic Party’s chosen successor to Biden was so convinced of her own inevitability that she never saw the political freight train named Trump coming. Harris — and her clueless running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — apparently believed that “vibes” and crowd sizes would translate into votes. Spoiler: they didn’t.
On Election Night, as Trump cleaned house across every key battleground state — flipping Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — Harris and her team were in stunned disbelief. Sitting in their suite at the Mayflower Hotel, campaign staffers were reportedly “gaslit” by leadership into believing a win was just around the corner. Instead, Trump romped to 312 Electoral College votes, leaving Harris with a pitiful 226.
“They thought they were going to win,” said Parnes in an interview. “She’s like, are you sure? Have we done a recount? Should we do a recount?” In other words, the Democrats were so wrapped up in their media-manufactured bubble that they failed to see what was obvious to the rest of us: America was done with the woke elite, and they were ready to bring back leadership that actually puts this country first.
What’s more embarrassing? Apparently, Harris was “reading the vibes” — literally. As her campaign limped along, the vice president measured momentum by crowd sizes, social media hype, and fundraising buzz. Meanwhile, real polling — the kind David Plouffe, former Obama strategist, admitted existed — showed her consistently behind. “We still had ourselves down in the battleground states,” Plouffe admitted post-election. Translation: they knew it was bad, but they lied to themselves — and the public.
Even Harris’ own advisors, like Stephanie Cutter, admitted that she wouldn’t distance herself from Biden, the man whose catastrophic presidency handed her this political nightmare to begin with. By refusing to break from the failed legacy of lockdowns, inflation, border chaos, and foreign policy blunders, Harris tethered her campaign to an anchor — and it sank.
Her cheerleaders tried to put a brave face on it. On X (formerly Twitter), Harris wrote, “My heart is full… the light of America’s promise will always burn bright.” But you don’t need a poetic eulogy when the message from voters is this clear: No more radicals, no more gaslighting, and no more incompetence from the D.C. elite.
Even Bernie Sanders, the progressive firebrand, wasn’t surprised. “It was the white working class, and now it is Latino and black workers as well,” Sanders said bluntly. “While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”
Tim Walz also admitted that he misread the public. “It felt like at the rallies… that the momentum was going our way. And it obviously wasn’t,” he confessed. That’s the kind of political malpractice that has become a hallmark of the modern Democratic Party — all flash, no follow-through.
Now Harris is reportedly eyeing a run for California governor in 2026 or another shot at the presidency in 2028. Let’s hope the Democratic base has learned something by then — but judging by the delusion that ran rampant in 2024, don’t count on it.
Americans sent a clear message last November: they’re tired of being lectured, ignored, and ruled by people who think hashtags and Hollywood endorsements can replace jobs, security, and common sense. The Trump resurgence wasn’t a fluke. It was a reckoning.
