Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton makes a campaign stop in Tampa, Florida, encouraging early voting among Democratic supporters at "Casa Kamala" for Vice President Kamala Harris in November 2024. (Octavio Jones/Reuters)
"One of your strengths,' they said, ‘is that you bring a joyful energy to the campaign. You have to choose someone who won’t work against that,’" she wrote of their conversation. "They told me to be aware that over the course of the campaign, people will be able to tell if it is a genuinely good relationship or a political marriage of convenience."
Harris continued that the former president said his running mate and vice president, Al Gore, was a good match "because he knew things I didn’t know. We were as different as daylight and dark and it worked."
"'You have to level with them and watch how they answer,'" she wrote of Bill Clinton's advice on how to vet potential running mates.
She added that the couple jointly "emphasized that I’d be offering this person the chance of a lifetime, so they’d better know it. If they were someone dying for immediate public recognition, it might not be the job for them. They might have to swallow a lot of crap."
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Harris ultimately chose Walz to join her on the ticket, a relatively unknown Democratic governor from Minnesota and former U.S. House lawmaker who was celebrated as Harris' "happy warrior" on the campaign trail.
"I needed to know that my running mate was a person who valued the dignity of everyone and would take a moment to show it," she capped off the chapter, which did not note whether Harris floated Walz' name directly to the Clintons as she sought advice.
Kamala Harris' new memoir, "107 Days," provides a detailed first-hand account of the former vice president's truncated presidential campaign in 2024. (Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press)
Harris said that the former first couple immediately offered to travel to campaign for her presidential ticket, including taking public transportation, including Hillary Clinton reportedly offering to hop on an Amtrak ride to hit the campaign trail.
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Her comments on the Clintons follow Biden's allies taking issue with Harris' handful of jabs she took at the former president, including arguing it was reckless for the octogenarian president to run for re-election, critiquing Biden's botched debate against Trump that ultimately served as a death knell for Biden's re-election efforts.
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