Kamala Harris

I think that as time has gone by and people have had a chance, including myself, to kind of sit with it, reflect on it.

Writing the book was very cathartic.

Being away from it in terms of space and time, it has a way of mitigating the pain of what that process was.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a really good point.

Yeah, you're right.

That's right.

And you get to process it in a way that also is about what's my role to play and what could I have done differently as a way to help guide future decisions, whatever that may be.

Right.

Like, am I just like, fuck it?

Yeah, I think there is that energy in the book.

But just like, but here's part of it that I, in writing it and now, this is how I feel about it.

In so many ways, I've been in the belly of the beast.

And I feel that the consequence of an election for president of the United States impacts billions of people around the world.

And yet the process can be so opaque and

And what I also hope to do with the book is just lift up the hood on it so people can see how it runs.

And in a way that if it's for a journalist, if it's for a high school student, if it's for someone's grandmother, to confirm or enlighten around what people think it is in a way that they can see themselves in their own power.

You know?

And that does require demystifying it.