WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris has several possibilities for her next move, including running for president in 2028 and governor of California in 2026, but six individuals involved with internal deliberations about her future say she may first focus on publishing a book.
According to two of the people, Harris has already made the decision to write a book. On Monday, she will be removed from political office for the first time in over 20 years. According to the others, the subject is being discussed.
Harris swiftly secured the Democratic Party’s candidacy in the 2024 presidential contest when President Joe Biden withdrew from it in July, but he lost the general election to former President Donald Trump. Harris has not discussed her 107-day race to attempt to salvage the presidency for her party in public since giving in to Trump. Her writing could help mold her future in addition to recounting the past.
According to Keith Urbahn, president and co-founder of the literary agency Javelin, Kamala Harris is on track to sign the largest book deal of any vice president in history. However, whether the book can remake her for 2028 is the true question, not the advance.
According to Urbahn, Harris has a chance to be personal, admit when she and the Democratic Party misinterpreted the voters’ feelings, and possibly connect with more people than just her base.
There are two versions of this book, he said, one that reinvents her to lead a Democratic Party that needs to be rebuilt and another that is safe but full of clichés. Either way, she gets paid, but only the latter gives her another chance to run for president.
Several of Harris’s advisors believe that voters will want to read her lengthy story.
One Harris confidant stated, “I believe she owes it to people to write a book.”
According to Ashley Etienne, a former vice presidential communications director for Harris, she intends to purchase copies of any book written by Harris for all the women in her life, including her daughter.
The vice president has an amazing narrative to tell and is a historic character. Etienne cited her leadership in combating COVID, reviving the economy, and defending women’s rights in this country. She is adored by more than 70 million people. They must be itching for her to reveal her extraordinary path from being an immigrant’s child to holding the reins of power in the world’s most powerful nation.
In 2019, Harris’s final book, The Truths We Hold, which was published alongside her first presidential campaign, peaked at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. She also published Superheroes are Everywhere, a children’s picture book, at the same time. She also penned a memoir titled Smart on Crime in 2010.