Kamala Harris, in her memoir 107 Days, describes a tense moment just before her debate with Donald Trump when President Joe Biden called her in her hotel room to raise concerns. He told her that people close to him—“power brokers” in Philadelphia—were worried she had been speaking negatively about him to donors.
Harris recounts that the timing of the call, just hours before she was scheduled to go on stage, threw her off. She says she felt “angry and disappointed,” frustrated that what should have been a moment of focus turned into yet another political test.
Her husband, Doug Emhoff, reportedly noticed she was shaken by the conversation and urged her to push past it so she could stay grounded for the debate.