'I love Joe Biden, and I also am very clear and have made a point about making it clear'

Kamala Harris is back on television this week to promote her new book about the 2024 election. The failed candidate is off to a strong start, picking up right where she left off by cackling her way through softball interviews with friendly "journalists," and showcasing her exceptional ability to recite vacuous talking points from memory. She is reminding the American public why she lost.

Harris shared a tender double-handshake with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Monday before stumbling through an awkward conversation about the book, 107 Days. She compared President Donald Trump to a "communist dictator," hesitantly endorsed the Hamas sympathizer and socialist Democratic New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani (without using his name), and bizarrely claimed the 2024 contest was "the closest presidential election in the 21st century," which isn't even remotely true.

Maddow inadvertently put Harris on the defensive by citing the portion of her book where she reveals Pete Buttigieg was her "first choice" to join the ticket as her running mate, but ultimately decided it was "too big of a risk" to pick an openly gay white man instead of Gov. Tim Walz (D., Minn.), a flamboyant stage performer who was "married" to a woman and pretended to hunt. "To say that [Buttigieg] couldn't be on the ticket, effectively because he was gay, is hard to hear," Maddow said, prompting Harris to insist that's not what she wrote in the book. (It was.)

Harris went on to explain she didn't think she could pick a gay running mate "with the stakes being so high." The decision had nothing to do with "any prejudice on my part," Harris said. It was the ignorance and bigotry of the American public that made Buttigieg a risky choice. Elsewhere in the book, Harris applauds the "character" she demonstrated by refusing to disavow her endorsement of taxpayer-funded sex change operations for illegal immigrant prisoners, and denounces former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (but not Barack Obama) for refusing to back gay marriage.

The failed candidate repeated her false claim about the 2024 election being the century's "closest" on Tuesday during an interview with former NFL player Michael Strahan on Good Morning America. Harris said she hoped her book would remind people a "light exists in all of us," and to use that light to "propel us through these dark days." She faulted herself for refusing to raise concerns about then-president Joe Biden's fitness to run for reelection. "On my part, I do reflect on that and feel that it was a recklessness about not raising it with him," Harris said.

Strahan asked about whether Harris would run for president again in 2028, but she dodged by noting all of the sobbing fans she's met since losing the election. "I'm excited about being out and listening to folks," Harris said. "I think it's important to listen, you know? And elevate people's voices, you know? There's such—I, when I'm out and about, I can't tell you the number of people that come up to me crying."

Harris described the personal trauma she endured on Election Day during an otherwise giddy chat with the ladies of The View. "I grieved in a way that I have not since my mother died," she said. The ladies cracked jokes about Harris's devastating gaffe during the election, when she went on The View and said there was "not a thing that comes to mind" when asked to explain what she would have done differently as president compared with Biden. Alas, the failed politician's attempt to explain her answer raised serious questions about her competence. "I didn't fully appreciate how much people wanted to know there was a difference between me and President Biden," she said.

Regarding her relationship with the former president, Harris claimed (rather unconvincingly) the pair remained in contact and continued to have warm feelings toward one another. "I love Joe Biden, and I also am very clear and have made a point about making it clear," she made clear. "Joe Biden was a highly capable president who accomplished great things that history will talk about."

Fact check: Joe Biden was technically the president, he accomplished things, and historians will talk about him.