Kamala Harris has canceled several upcoming appearances in California that were part of her book tour promoting her memoir, 107 Days. On Tuesday, Harris, a former vice president and the 2024 Democratic nominee who lost in a landslide to President Trump, withdrew from scheduled events in Sacramento, San Diego, and Anaheim that had been planned for next month.
Ticketing company Ticketmaster notified ticketholders of the cancellations and issued refunds. The company said the events, billed as “A Conversation with Kamala Harris,” were canceled due to a scheduling conflict, the New York Post reported.
Harris most recently appeared at a book tour event in Oakland on March 3. She is still scheduled to appear in Denver, Colorado, on April 2. However, previously planned California appearances on April 4 in Sacramento, April 6 in San Diego, and April 10 in Anaheim have been canceled.
It is unclear whether the events will be rescheduled. The three canceled California appearances have also been removed from Harris’s official website, The Post noted.
The cancellations come as Harris continues her book tour with security provided by the California Highway Patrol. According to reporting by KCRA, dozens of Highway Patrol officers have been reassigned since September to accompany the former vice president as she travels for tour events across the United States and occasionally overseas.
State officials have not revealed how many officers are assigned to Harris or the total taxpayer dollars spent on her security; however, a retired CHP officer indicated that the expenses would be “significant.”
“All I know is it’s a lot, it is a significant amount of money,” Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey, who spent 28 years as a member of the CHP, told KCRA.
Joe Biden’s No. 2. previously held four book tour events in California, including two appearances in Los Angeles, one in San Francisco, and a recent stop in Oakland.
Harris is currently scheduled to continue the tour with events in Greensboro, North Carolina, on April 13 and Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 14. Additional appearances are planned in Columbia, South Carolina, on April 16 and Savannah, Georgia, on April 17, The Post reported.
Harris, along with former Biden, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton, attended the funeral of the late civil rights leader Jesse Jackson a week ago, where Obama and Biden, along with the former veep, proceeded to trash President Donald Trump, drawing criticism from Jackson’s son.
“Let me just tell ya, I predicted a lot of what’s happening right now,” Harris said at one point during her speech, a reference to the Trump administration. “I’m not into saying ‘I told ya so,’ but we did see it comin’,” she added using an accent that was heavily ethnically skewed to the mostly black audience.
Obama said similar things when it was his turn to speak, again in an accent that appeared to be playing to the crowd.
The shameful behavior caught the attention of the civil rights leader’s son, Jesse Jackson Jr., who decried the political posturing as inappropriate for the occasion.
“Do not bring your politics, out of respect to Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the life that he lived, to these ongoing services. Come respectful, and come to say thank you. But these ongoing services are welcome to ALL – Democrat, Republican, liberal, and conservative. Right-wing, left-wing. Because his life is broad enough to cover the full spectrum of what it means to be an American,” Jackson Jr., a former Democratic congressman from Illinois, chastised.
Harris has been mentioned as entertaining the notion of running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028, along with Democratic gubernatorial disaster Gavin Newsom and a handful of others.
Newsom has already received the endorsement of fellow Californian and retiring former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.