Book Reveals Absurd Demand Made By Harris’ Team During Campaign

A recently published book alleges that Kamala Harris, former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee, made a series of unusual demands during her campaign.

Following a disastrous first interview with CNN anchor Dana Bash in August, her team attributed the failure not to her responses but to the chair she sat in. The interview, which also featured her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, led to a set of strict interview conditions thereafter.

According to a copy of the demands obtained by The Hill, Harris’s team insisted on specific chair requirements:

“Leg height no less than 15 inches; floor to top of seat height no less than 18.9 inches; arms on chairs may not be very high, arms must fall at a natural height; chairs must be firm.”

However, the chair issue was not the only obstacle her campaign faced.

Former President Joe Biden and his aides made it clear that there should be “no daylight” between her policies and his, effectively binding her to a deeply unpopular administration.

On the day she debated President Donald Trump, the former president reportedly gave her a blunt piece of advice: “No daylight, kid.”

Despite her efforts to align with Biden, her campaign quickly faltered. Even an appearance on the talk show “The View,” which was expected to be a friendly platform, turned into a pivotal moment that may have sealed her fate.

When co-host Sunny Hostin asked what she would do differently in a Harris administration compared to Biden’s, Harris gave a now-infamous response:

“There is not a thing that comes to mind.”

Reflecting on the moment after the election, Hostin expressed her surprise at Harris’s answer in an interview with Brian Teta.

“Look, I think it wasn’t so much about the question, but it was really more about the answer,” Hostin said.

“Not a thing comes to mind, and that’s what I followed up with,” she added. “Is there anything that you would do differently? And the reason I followed up is because that wasn’t a gotcha question. That was a layup really. It was an important question and I think one she should have expected.”

Hostin later explained that she had anticipated Harris would highlight her administration’s accomplishments and outline how she planned to build upon them.

“I thought she would then say, I would build on the wins that we’ve had. And I had a laundry list of wins in my head. And she didn’t answer it that way. She said ‘not a thing comes to mind,’” Hostin stated.

The discussion of this viral moment continued on a podcast where Hostin and Teta analyzed its impact:

BRIAN TETA, HOST: One of the things that keeps coming up is, did Sunny Hostin personally cost Kamala Harris the election with her question?

SUNNY HOSTIN: Oh wow, I wish I had that much power because I would have flipped it in the other way.

TETA: Yeah, sure. I mean, you see this like James Carville and all these pundits are saying it.

HOSTIN: Look, I think it goes to show how important this show is, you know, in this country and actually internationally.

TETA: I have to laugh because normally whenever we have a big politician on and they do well, I get all these trolls on Twitter and other places saying they gave them the questions beforehand, the questions are impromptu. I’m like, well, now we have proof. They are not. We do not do that.

HOSTIN: I will say this, it’s interesting to me. I do think it’s just clickbait and I think any headline that has ‘The View’ mentioned or my name mentioned seems to go viral.

TETA: Let’s remind people what the question was. It was, what would you have done differently?

HOSTIN: I would have asked the president what she would do differently in a Biden and in Harris administration as opposed to a Biden administration.

TETA: And what if she, if anything, she wishes she could have done differently in the past four years?

HOSTIN: It’s something like that. Yeah. I followed up because I was surprised at the answer.

“Not a thing comes to mind,” she reiterated, explaining why she pressed for clarification.

Hostin believed this was a golden opportunity for Harris to connect with voters seeking a fresh approach.

“That’s what I thought. I actually thought it was a chance for her to explain to all the people who are saying, I want a change agent, for her to explain that of course she has a different lived experience from President Biden. But they did have one of the most successful administrations in our country,” Hostin concluded.