Governor Josh Shapiro of Abington Township was featured yesterday in a lengthy interview by The Atlantic, during which he called former Vice President Kamala Harris’ book portrayal of his 2024 running mate candidacy “complete and utter bulls—”.
The book, titled “107 Days“, reportedly claims that Shapiro would have been unhappy as second-in-command, that “he would want to be in the room for every decision”, and that he asked questions about the vice president’s residence, “from the number of bedrooms to how he might arrange to get Pennsylvania artists’ work on loan from the Smithsonian.”
“I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies. She’s trying to sell books, period,” he said in the interview, adding that Harris did not give him a heads up about her book’s comments prior to its release.
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After reading Harris’s book and talking with people from both camps, I found descriptions of the meeting to be mostly consistent. Shapiro arrived in an edgy mood, chafing at efforts among fellow Democrats to sabotage his tryout. (Shapiro, who is Jewish, was especially irked by anti-Semitic innuendo from the left.) The two skipped past any semblance of small talk and Shapiro proceeded to interview Harris, rather than the other way around. “I did ask a bunch of questions,” Shapiro told me, sounding exasperated. “Wouldn’t you ask questions if someone was talking to you about forming a partnership and working together?”
What seemed to bother Shapiro, more than any one detail, was Harris portraying him in ways consistent with the whispers that had dogged him throughout the vetting process and throughout his career: that he was selfish, petty, and monomaniacally ambitious. Given that they’d known each other a long time—“20 years,” Shapiro said with a groan—I asked whether he felt betrayed.
The story goes on to detail Shapiro’s potential 2028 presidential run and his success at maintaining a 60 percent approval rating, accomplished in part by “courting the president’s supporters” rather than antagonizing the MAGA base.
He also suggested that Democrats lost the 2024 election “by failing to show up and failing to treat people with a level of respect that they deserve,” adding that “Donald Trump has been a once-in-a-generation political figure who’s managed to connect on a deeper cultural level.”
The governor noted his distaste for Trump’s dishonest tactics and his administration’s policies, reflected in a myriad of lawsuits filed by Shapiro this year.
“We can’t ignore the fact that elections are binary choices. And so you’re asking people, at least in the last case, to choose between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump,” he said in the interview. “We can have this kind of theoretical conversation about Trump, but, like, it was always Trump versus somebody.”
In August 2024, Shapiro rejected the idea that his Jewish faith played a role in Harris’ decision to choose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over him as a running mate. In October 2025, he announced his new memoir titled “Where We Keep the Light: Stories From a Life of Service”, to be released on January 27, 2026.
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