Former Vice President Kamala Harris released a memoir on her 2024 presidential campaign on Sept. 23, which included some factual errors. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Harris inaccurately claimed only U.S. Marines were killed during the Biden–Harris administration's botched and chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, omitting mention that one soldier and one Navy corpsman were among the 13 U.S. service members killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul Airport's Abbey Gate.
Harris' inaccuracies were included in a section of her book focused on then-President Biden failing to accurately debate Trump on his military leadership during his failed 2024 debate against Trump.
"He’s got so much material on this—Trump calling our fallen soldiers 'suckers and losers,'" Harris wrote of what ran through her head when Biden was asked about his role as commander-in-chief.
"He managed to get off that line but had stepped on it earlier by saying no one had died in wars overseas on his watch, seeming to forget the thirteen marines who died in the bomb blast at the airport during the evacuation of Afghanistan. I’d been on Air Force Two when it happened, and we had to change our flight plan to get back to DC in the face of that tragedy. How could he overlook that day?" she wrote, expressing her surprise over the response, but misidentifying those who were all killed as members of the Marines Corps.
The Biden administration repeatedly came under fire for its handling of the Afghan withdrawal. The botched withdrawal, which included leaving military equipment worth millions of dollars in the hands of the Taliban, was viewed as preamble for adversaries such as Russia to invade Ukraine, as the U.S. looked weak on the international stage, critics raged at the time.
The Taliban regained control of Afghanistan upon the U.S.' withdrawal.
President Donald Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht in January of 2025. (Ian Maule/Getty Images)
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Harris launched her book tour in September, when she began joining media interviews and stops in cities across the country to celebrate her 107-day campaign, and also repeatedly has claimed it was the "closest election" this century.
"It was the closest election in the 21st century. It was one of the top three closest elections in the last century. So for all those pundits who want to say that America is not ready for a woman to be president, I reject that," Harris said during her New York City book stop on Sept. 24.
She again claimed just days later from Howard University: "By the way, what is also historic about that, in many ways — it was the closest election for president of the United States in the 21st Century."
"Period. Period," she added.
Harris lost both the Electoral College and popular vote to Trump during the 2024 election in a defeat that also included each of the seven battleground states voting in favor of Trump. Harris ended the campaign with 75,019,617 total votes to Trump's 77,304,184 votes, and 226 electoral votes to Trump's 312.
The 2000 election between George W. Bush and then-Vice President Al Gore is considered the closest election of this century, was ultimately decided by 537 votes in Florida. Bush also notably lost the popular vote in that election, but secured the needed electoral votes to cinch victory, while Trump also lost the popular vote but won the Electoral College in the 2016 election against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Harris' post-administration office Tuesday inquiring if her team hired a fact-checker to review the book or Harris' comment on the 2024 election being the "closest" this century but did not receive a response.
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Harris' book tour is set to run through at least Nov. 20, and includes stops Toronto and in London.
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