Compress decades of infrastructure work into weeks by over-communicating priorities.
Field, finance, and message teams held daily 6 a.m. alignment calls to keep a national staff rowing in sync.
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107 Days
by Kamala Harris
A campaign diary of rebuilding a national movement on an impossibly tight deadline
Inside Kamala Harris's 107-day sprint to the 2024 general election
Published 2025
Topics
Campaign StrategyCrisis LeadershipU.S. PoliticsMemoir
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How to read 107 Days with Readever
Read this book chronologically to experience the intense pressure of the 107-day timeline. Focus on understanding the three feedback loops Harris emphasizes: message discipline, coalition care, and organizational agility. Pay special attention to the daily campaign rituals and decision-making processes documented in her journal entries. The book works best when you read it as both a leadership case study and a real-time political thriller.
Things to know before reading
Familiarize yourself with the basic timeline of the 2024 presidential campaign and the circumstances surrounding President Biden's withdrawal. Understanding the political context will help you appreciate the immense pressure Harris faced. Be prepared for a fast-paced narrative that reads like a campaign diary—this isn't a traditional political memoir but a real-time account of crisis leadership. Having some knowledge of campaign operations will enhance your understanding but isn't essential.
Brief summary
107 Days in a nutshell
107 Days drops you into the daily journal Harris kept from August 3 through November 17, 2024—the exact window between President Biden’s withdrawal and Election Day. She documents the frantic rebuilding of a national campaign infrastructure, the recalibration of message and coalition, and the emotional whiplash of carrying the ticket under relentless scrutiny. It doubles as both eyewitness history and a field manual for leading when the clock is stacked against you.
Key ideas overview
107 Days summary of 3 key ideas
Harris structures the narrative around three feedback loops—message discipline, coalition care, and organizational agility.
Keep the coalition intact by narrating the transition in plain language.
The journal captures Harris’s swing-state barnstorms where she frames the handoff as a ‘relay, not a reset.’
Guard morale by celebrating micro-wins.
She annotates small rituals—handwritten thank-you notes, staff shoutouts, quiet bus debriefs—that kept burnout at bay.
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Lead decisively when the timeline collapses.
Use Harris’s condensed chronicle to model how you triage priorities, ground truth with voters, and keep a dispersed team aligned through uncertainty. The playbook shows how to translate governing experience into rapid campaign execution without burning out the coalition you still need to turn out.
Deep dive
Key ideas in 107 Days
Key idea 1
Compress decades of infrastructure work into weeks by over-communicating priorities.
Field, finance, and message teams held daily 6 a.m. alignment calls to keep a national staff rowing in sync.
Harris reveals how acting campaign manager Sheila Nix re-mapped a 50-state operation by forcing radical transparency: every team owned a single metric tied to voter contact, digital reach, or delegate security. Meeting cadences shifted to twice-daily standups, and Harris funneled her own notes from battleground stops directly to analytics so messaging tweaks landed in under 24 hours.
Remember
- In a crisis timeline, ruthless meeting hygiene becomes a competitive advantage.
- Leaders should pipe firsthand voter intel directly into data loops so pivots stick.
Key idea 2
Keep the coalition intact by narrating the transition in plain language.
The journal captures Harris’s swing-state barnstorms where she frames the handoff as a ‘relay, not a reset.’
Touring Milwaukee, Phoenix, Detroit, and Atlanta, Harris foregrounds continuity with Biden’s agenda while naming what changes under her leadership. She documents living-room conversations with labor organizers and faith leaders to validate concerns about experience, then redirects to policy stakes like reproductive rights and middle-class economics.
Remember
- Give surrogates a simple baton-passing story they can tell without notes.
- Pair policy stakes with personal listening sessions to rebuild trust quickly.
Key idea 3
Guard morale by celebrating micro-wins.
She annotates small rituals—handwritten thank-you notes, staff shoutouts, quiet bus debriefs—that kept burnout at bay.
The diary underscores that relentless positivity isn’t naïve; it’s strategic. Harris chronicles how she bookended each travel day with gratitude calls to staff leads, highlighted field innovations in nightly press gaggles, and invited young organizers onto the campaign plane to reinforce that the work mattered.
Remember
- Culture work accelerates when the candidate models it publicly.
- Never let urgent push out the chance to recognize people doing the lifting.
Who should read 107 Days?
Campaign staffers facing compressed timelines or leadership transitions.
Policy professionals who need a case study in rapid narrative reframing.
Students of contemporary U.S. politics seeking a firsthand 2024 primary source.
About the author
Kamala D. Harris is the 49th Vice President of the United States and the first woman, first Black American, and first South Asian American to hold the office. Before joining the national ticket, she served as U.S. Senator from California and as the state’s Attorney General.
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