Former Vice President Kamala Harris brought her national “107 Days” book tour to Macon, Ga., on Feb. 11, offering a reflection on power, community and resilience during a wide-ranging conversation moderated by chef and restaurateur Mashama Bailey.
The stop was part of a tour that began in New York City in September 2025 and is scheduled to conclude April 17 in Savannah. In Macon, Harris spoke candidly about the memoir, which documents her 107-day presidential campaign in a journal-style format, with each chapter corresponding to a single day on the trail.
“So the way I wrote the book is, it’s kind of, it reads like a journal,” Harris said. “So each chapter is a specific day during the 107 days.”
Bailey, an award-winning chef and co-owner of The Grey, framed the evening as a conversation rooted in community and care, drawing connections between Harris’ reflections and her own experiences as a small-business owner in Georgia.
As Harris described the emotional landscape of the campaign and the broader political moment, she repeatedly emphasized personal and collective power.
“I strongly believe you should never let anybody take your power from you,” Harris said.
She continued with a line that drew sustained applause from the audience.
“And it’s an interesting thing that when you feel powerless, you become powerless,” she said. “When you feel powerful, you will conduct yourself in a way that is powerful.”
Throughout the evening, Harris emphasized what she called the “neighbor-to-neighbor approach” as a counterweight to national political anxiety, urging attendees to see civic engagement not only through elections but through daily acts of care.
“It is the simple, profound power that comes with looking at the person next to you right now and asking them, how are you? How you doing,” Harris said.
Harris offered concrete examples of that ethic in practice.
“The power that comes from checking in on that elderly neighbor,” she said, “the power that comes from that single parent, that young father or mother and asking them, hey, I’m going to the grocery store. Can I pick up something for you?”
Harris tied those everyday gestures to a broader reclaiming of agency during uncertain times.
“In this moment where so many people are rightly and understandably feeling fear and anxiety, we gotta take back our power,” she said.
Later in the conversation, Harris reflected on why she chose to write “107 Days,” describing the book as both a political record and a personal reminder.
“And part of the reason that [I] wrote the book is to remind…us.… that [there is a] light that’s in each one of us and no circumstance or election of [an] individual should be allowed to extinguish that light,” she explained. “It’s in us.”
She urged the audience not to allow external pressures, political or otherwise, to diminish that sense of purpose.
“In particular, in moments of darkness, let that light shine… in terms of where we need to go in our sense of purpose and belonging,” Harris added.
Bailey said that theme resonated throughout the memoir, which frequently returns to family, memory and grounding rituals amid the intensity of a national campaign.
The Macon appearance also situated Harris’ reflections within Georgia’s broader civic landscape, with references to local communities, voting rights and grassroots engagement, topics that have long defined the state’s political identity.
As the tour continues toward its final stop in Savannah, Harris said the work ahead, politically and personally, remains rooted in participation rather than withdrawal.
“You don’t wait around letting people tell you who you are,” she said. “You tell them who you are.”
Harris’s next political focus is the 2026 midterm elections. She will be campaigning for candidates and continuing to urge voters not to disengage from the process. Copies of “107 Days” and tickets for the remaining tour stops are available at the tour’s official website.
