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Former Vice President Kamala Harris revealed in her new book, “107 Days,” that she had quietly tapped Denis McDonough as her choice for chief of staff in the event she won the 2024 presidential election.
While Harris admitted that 107 days “were not, in the end, long enough to accomplish the task of winning the presidency,” her memoir revealed that White House transition plans were already in motion for her to assume the presidency.
“We’d planned for everything, it seemed, except the actual result,” Harris wrote.
Harris said she decided in early October 2024 that McDonough would be her chief of staff and disclosed in the book that he had already accepted the offer more than a month before Election Day.
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Then-Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks, conceding the 2024 presidential election to then-candidate Donald Trump, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 6, 2024. (Mike Blake/Reuters)
The former vice president described McDonough as a “deeply caring man who doesn’t mince words,” and said she knew he would “run a productive and disciplined West Wing.”
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“Denis McDonough had been Barack Obama’s chief of staff in his second term, chief of staff at the National Security Council before that, and had served as secretary of Veterans Affairs in our administration,” Harris wrote in the book.
McDonough had most recently served as Secretary of Veteran Affairs for President Joe Biden’s administration. He was chief of staff to former President Barack Obama from Feb. 2013 to Jan. 2017. McDonough also served as Principal Deputy National Security Advisor from Oct. 2010 to Jan. 2013.
“One of the first public events I did as VP was with Denis. It was the height of COVID. He and his wife, Karin, and Doug and I took heart-shaped cookies to the nurses at the VA…
