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TV Host Admits Her ‘Grenade’ Question Tanked Harris’ Campaign

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Sunny Hostin confessed that she knew right away that her infamous question might have tanked Kamala Harris’ presidential hopes.

Harris appeared on ABC’s “The View” to promote her memoir, “107 Days,” a book detailing the brief campaign she launched immediately after Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race.

Her abbreviated run against President Donald Trump ended in defeat, and Harris has since been revisiting what went wrong.

Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pressed Harris about whether she and her team had overlooked signals that voters were ready to move away from Biden and viewed her campaign as an continuation of his presidency.

“Understanding that many people saw you as an extension of Joe Biden, were there glaring warning signs that, when there’s only two options to vote on, that you missed going into election day?” Griffin asked.

“I’m a loyal person, and I didn’t fully appreciate how much people wanted to know there was a difference between me and president Biden,” Harris claimed.

“I thought it was obvious, and I didn’t want to offer a difference in a way that would be received or suggested to be a criticism, and, you know, in the campaign full-time I was pointing out the differences.”

But the moment that still lingers came from Sunny Hostin, who asked Harris what she would have done differently than Biden.

At the time, Harris said that there was “not a thing that comes to mind” that she’d do differently than him.

Hostin later revealed she immediately understood the weight of Harris’ non-answer.

“You write you had no idea you just pulled the pin on a hand grenade. In the moment, I knew,” Hostin told Harris.

She then claimed the problem wasn’t Harris’ inability to respond but Trump’s ability to use it against her.

“The Trump campaign weaponized your answer against you; my question,” Hostin lamented.

When asked by co-host Joy Behar directly if she believed that exchange had tipped the election, Harris denied it.

“Because Sunny doesn’t want to take the blame,” Behar quipped.

“I absolve you,” she told Hostin, while maintaining the campaign’s failure couldn’t be pinned on one moment.

Harris also made the false claim that the 2024 race was “the closest presidential race in the 21st Century in terms of the outcome,” which caused cheers to erupt from the liberal audience.

Behar suggested sexism played a role in Harris’ defeat, but the former vice president disagreed.

She instead pointed to broader concerns about the economy. “I do believe one of the biggest deciders of the outcome of that election was that the American people were sick of things being so expensive and wanted prices to come down,” Harris admitted.

She added that many voters believed Trump would “bring down costs.” Harris noted that while she had not personally seen evidence of lower costs, voters credited Trump for focusing on their financial concerns.

During the interview, Harris leveled charges at the president, alleging he had “weaponize[d] the Department of Justice” to “fulfill whatever his fragile ego needed.”

She also noted the biggest obstacle of the 2024 Election in her view was simply timing.

“There are many factors, I think that — that played into the outcome of that election, but, I think probably one of the biggest in my mind is we just didn’t have enough time,” she said.

Biden withdrew from the race in late July 2024 after a disastrous debate against Trump, leaving Harris just a few months to mount a campaign.

In her book, she accused Biden of “recklessness” for waiting so long to step aside.

She wrote that at 81, “Joe got tired,” pointing to his age and physical stumbles.

Yet she also added, “On his worst day, he was more deeply knowledgeable, more capable of exercising judgment, and far more compassionate than Donald Trump at his best.”

During a Tuesday appearance on MSNBC, Harris seemed to backtrack on her remarks in the book.

“So, when I write this, it’s because I realize that I have and had a certain responsibility that I should have followed through on,” she told Rachel Maddow.

“And so, when I talk about the recklessness, as much as anything, I’m talking about myself.”

Radio host Charlamagne tha God had a blunt reaction to Harris’s book, saying, “It’s over for the Biden legacy.”

He called the memoir “a fantastic read” and noted that Harris did take responsibility for her own campaign failings.

Despite that, he described the revelations about Biden as damning. “I always thought the Biden legacy was trash anyway. This definitely confirms it.”

Charlamagne referenced other accounts of Biden’s presidency, including Jake Tapper’s “Original Sin” and a forthcoming tell-all by former press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

He pointed out that Harris, as Biden’s closest political partner, had unique insight into his decline.

“Nobody was closer to [the Bidens] than the vice president,” he said.

On “The View,” Harris tried to clarify her stance, saying, “This book is not about Joe Biden. I love Joe Biden.”

She also insisted, “Joe Biden was a highly capable president that accomplished great things that history will talk about.”

Watch Harris’ full appearance on “The View” here:

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