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We all forget to respond to missed calls sometimes, but usually not when it's the vice president. Hot Topic 🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Politics The book is aptly named — detailing her experience campaigning for the presidency with only 107 days to defeat Donald Trump. People had a lot to say about things she shared in her book, like that bombshell about Gavin Newsom. In 107 Days, Harris wrote that she called California Governor Gavin Newsom hours after former president Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race. BuzzFeed TrendingHot Topic Let's chat about all things Politics See our Politics Discussions His response? "Hiking. Will call back," according to Harris. She said he never did. Ahead of Tuesday's Prop 50 vote in California, NBC correspondent Kristen Welker interviewed Newsom for an exclusive episode of Meet the Press. Welker asked Newsom about what Harris suggested in her book: "Is that what happened?" Newsom's response was simple: "100%." He follows his statement by saying that, though he didn't respond, he did send out an endorsement "a few minutes after that." Biden ended his reelection bid on July 21, 2024. On that same day, later in the afternoon, Newsom endorsed Harris, saying, "no one is better to prosecute the case against Donald Trump's dark vision." Newsom and Harris are both from California. Before Harris was VP, she served as District Attorney of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011, Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017, and US senator from 2017 to 2021. Newsom is currently serving his second term as governor of California, a position he has held since 2019. Previously, he served as mayor of San Francisco from 2004 to 2011 and lieutenant governor of California from 2011 to 2019. "I've known Kamala all my life," Newsom told Welker. "The last person she needs to reach out to is me." He continued, stating that he was, in fact, out on a hike when he received a call and voicemail from an unknown number. Later, he learned that this unknown call was from Harris, who was asking for an endorsement. Returning the call was a waste of Harris's time, in his view, because she had "a million people to call." At that point, his team was already working on announcing what she presumably had called to discuss: "As she was on to her next calls, we were already on to our press release endorsing her." "So, I don't even know why that was even in the book," he says. In response to this, Welker asks if Newsom felt like Harris's inclusion of that text message in her book felt like a "swipe." He quickly makes it clear that there are no hard feelings: "It's all good. We've known each other for 20 years. I think it's familiarity. I think she was having a little fun." So, there you have it! No beef between the it-girls of California politics, it seems like. What do you think? Does Newsom's reasoning for not calling Harris back make sense, or do you think he should've followed up?
