Kamala Harris has opened up about her post-election fury, telling volunteers she has spent the last year and a half shouting at her television and even throwing objects in anger over Donald Trump’s presidency.
The former vice president, 60, made the candid confession Saturday during a campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where she rallied support for Democratic Senate hopeful Rep. Chris Pappas. Harris appeared alongside gubernatorial candidate Cinde Warmington and congressional contender Stefany Shaheen at the volunteer event, part of a broader swing through states that included recent stops in Nevada and Mississippi.
“So for the last year and a half, we have been pissed,” Harris told the room, drawing out the word “pissed” with a long laugh and a big grin.
“We’ve been depressed and angry.”
The mood shifted as she continued. “We’ve been frustrated,” she added, growing more serious. “We’ve been feeling alone, hopeless, powerless. We’ve gone through the last year and a half — many of us, whether we admit it or not, have been saying things to the television that we would not say where we pray.”
“Some of us have been throwing things.”
Harris never uttered Trump’s name during her remarks, but her target was unmistakable. She described his administration as “the most callous, corrupt and incompetent presidential administration we have ever witnessed,” and invoked the nation’s founders in her attack.
“The founders imagined a moment like this. They imagined a moment that there would be a tyrant in office,” she stressed. “They imagined a moment where there would be feckless people who are supposed leaders, who bend a knee at the foot of the tyrant.”
“They imagined there would be a moment that we would create for the people, for the people to speak and use their power to put in place the checks and balances that the people so rightly deserve.”
The former vice president’s blunt emotional accounting comes after her decisive loss to Trump in the 2024 election, when he claimed every swing state and 50% of the popular vote to her 48%. Her three-month campaign burned through roughly $1 billion before the November defeat.
After addressing supporters, Harris appeared at Feathered Friend Brewing in Concord, where she was photographed serving drinks. She also taped an episode of the “Reproductive Freedom for All” podcast before a studio audience, returning to her theme of channeling rage into political engagement.
“Now is the moment where the power of the people kicks in to speak, and we are ready to speak loudly. I’m seeing that around the country. We have power,” she added. “And the power is with the people, and the people are done and ready to say, ‘We deserve more, and it doesn’t have to be this way.'”
Harris’s Granite State appearance follows a visit by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, another potential 2028 contender, who campaigned in New Hampshire the previous week. She is scheduled to continue her tour with stops in Wisconsin and Georgia.
