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Former Vice President Kamala Harris was reportedly blindsided by her 2024 election loss to President Donald Trump and “bought the hype” that she would win, according to a new book.
“She was completely shocked, and [Harris’ running mate] Tim Walz was shocked,” The Hill reporter Amie Parnes said on the podcast, “Somebody’s Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri” released Thursday.
Parnes discussed reporting in her new book, “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” which she co-authored with NBC reporter Jonathan Allen. The book tackles the 2024 presidential campaign and the chaos that unfolded after former President Biden withdrew from the race and Harris took his place at the top of the Democratic ticket.
While continuing to discuss the confusion within the Harris campaign on election night, Parnes said that Walz was sitting in his hotel room “stunned.”
“He has no words. And people are kind of explaining to him, same thing with her. And she’s like, are you sure? Have we done a recount? Should we do a recount?” Parnes said on the podcast, recounting how Walz and Harris reportedly reacted to their defeat.
“They thought that they were going to win. And so, you know, when they come back now and say, ‘Oh no, we didn’t really have a chance.’ No, that’s not what they were thinking. They thought they were going to win,” she added.
Harris campaign staffers felt “gaslit” by leadership about Harris’ chances at winning after being told that “things were looking good” for the candidate ahead of the election, according to Parnes.
Harris also “bought the hype” that she was doing better than she was, the author said.
“Kamala Harris was looking at her crowd size, and they felt like the vibe was strong and people were saying, ‘Oh, we have more boots on the ground. We’re doing better in fundraising,'” Parnes continued. “And she bought all of that. She bought the hype, and so did a lot of people in the campaign.”
According to the book, Harris reportedly told friends in the aftermath of her defeat that she could’ve won the election if she had more time and if Biden hadn’t run for re-election.
“She could have won, she told friends, if only the election was later in the calendar — or she got in earlier. In other words, Joe Biden was to blame,” the authors wrote.
Friends of Harris said that she believed Biden’s unpopularity and her late entry into the race tanked her campaign.
However, not all of Harris’ friends believed time would’ve helped, according to the book.
“That is f—ing bonkers,” one Harris friend reportedly said. “If Election Day was October first, we might have actually somehow pulled it off. Shorter was actually better, not longer.”
One Harris advisor said the candidate’s problem was “substance,” not a lack of campaign time.
“I don’t think we needed more time… We needed more substance. And she did not have more substance,” the advisor is quoted in the book.
The book also revealed that former President Obama hesitated to endorse Harris, believing she couldn’t win against Trump.
“He didn’t think that she was the best choice for Democrats, and he worked really behind the scenes for a long time to try to have a mini-primary, or an open convention, or a mini-primary leading to an open convention, did not have faith in her ability to win the election,” co-author Jonathan Allen told MSNBC this week.
“As it turned out, she didn’t win, but he was really working against her,” Allen continued.
Community members discovered the 150-foot blood trail leading to Rachel Morin’s lifeless body on a hiking trail as volunteers helped police search for the Maryland mom, opening remarks revealed in the long-awaited trial for her accused migrant killer.
Opening statements began Friday morning at the Harford County Circuit Court in Bel Air, Maryland, for the trial of Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, a 23-year-old from El Salvador, who is charged with murdering the 37-year-old Morin in 2023.
Morin’s family members, including her mother, Patty Morin, were seen arriving at the courthouse on Friday.
Martinez-Hernandez is accused of raping and killing Morin, a Harford County mother of five, whose body was discovered along a popular walking trail back in August 2023.
Morin was reported missing after she did not return home from some evening exercise on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air on Aug. 5.
In opening statements Friday, Harford County State’s Attorney Alison Healey said that concerned community members had gone along the walking trail after seeing missing person posters on Facebook.
Along the creek line, they found a trail that resembled a deer trail, with flattened leaves, before finding rocks with blood on them. The pair walked through two tunnels, with overgrown brush, where they found Morin’s body, Healey said.
The community members immediately called 911. Authorities retraced the path where Morin’s body had been dragged after her brutal rape and murder. Police also collected large bloody rocks that authorities say she had been bashed with.
Healey said that Morin’s right shoe and socks had been left on, and her left shoe and socks had been discarded. She noted that Morin’s bra had been pulled over her breasts.
Healey said the defendant, Martinez-Hernandez, forced Morin against the tunnel wall and raped her. Evidence revealed that the brutal assault had taken place between 7:04 and 7:10 p.m., she said.
Authorities discovered her phone submerged in the water, completely shattered, along with her destroyed Apple Watch. Nearby, they also found her Apple AirPods.
Autopsy results revealed that Morin had endured 15 to 20 blows to the head and had died from a combination of strangulation and blunt force trauma. Her death was officially ruled a homicide.
Her body bore bruises around her neck, and according to Healey, a DNA profile matched Martinez-Hernandez.
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On June 14, 2024, authorities pinged Martinez-Hernandez’s cellphone and responded to a bar in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He eventually admitted his identity after initially lying to police and providing a false name, authorities said.
When authorities searched his phone, they said they discovered internet queries for “Bel Air, [Md.]” and “Rachel”—including a misspelled version of Morin’s name—along with images of Morin and media coverage related to the investigation.
Martinez-Hernandez repeatedly told authorities that he had never been in Maryland, only in Texas and Oklahoma, they said.
“You will be convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that all of it is the defendant’s DNA,” Healey said Friday. “I’m certain you will be convinced that he had a plan to grab her off the trail and conceal her in the tunnel, drug her in there, bashed her in the head, disrobed her and left his DNA.”
Defense attorney Sawyer Hicks, representing Martinez-Hernandez, used his opening statement to cast doubt on the DNA match and suggest the incident was a crime of passion.
Hicks reiterated that the state has the burden of proof, noting that his client is presumed innocent until proven beyond reasonable doubt that he killed Morin.
“When you retire to deliberate, we are confident that you will see there is reasonable doubt in this case and that Hernandez is not guilty,” Hicks said.
He said that Martinez-Hernandez and Morin were strangers, and appeared to be laying the groundwork to cast suspicion on her then-boyfriend, Richard Tobin.
Hicks challenged the jury with pointed questions: “Where is the motive? Where is Richard Tobin’s DNA?'”
Tobin has never been accused of any wrongdoing in the case.
Morin was reported missing in August 2023 by her boyfriend, who said she had never returned after going out for a run on the Ma & Pa Trail, a pedestrian trail in Bel Air, a quiet and typically safe town about 28 miles northeast of Baltimore, on Aug. 5, 2023.
In February, police released new sketches of Martinez-Hernandez.
WATCH: Rachel Morin murder suspect linked to LA home invasion, assault
The sketches came after DNA evidence linked Martinez-Hernandez to the location of a Los Angeles home invasion. Police used the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), which led them to a single DNA match for an unidentified Hispanic male.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) collected a hat left behind at the site of the March 2023 home invasion that had turned violent, injuring a nine-year-old girl and her mother.
The suspect allegedly broke into the home in the middle of the night and assaulted the family inside before he was chased out. Surveillance video footage captured the man leaving, shirtless, through the front door.
“I’m going to make this short, because I’m very emotional,” Morin’s mother said previously. “I just want to take this time to thank all the law enforcement for all their hard work.
“They just really cared for our family and for our daughter,” she said. “They were going to diligently work and find the person who murdered her.”
Fox News’ Alexandria Hoff and Sally Persons contributed to this report.
Senior Iranian officials are threatening to ramp up the country’s nuclear program as the Trump administration weighs a possible strike against the regime if Tehran does not come to the table for negotiations.
“The president should be making the regime sweat, pure and simple,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran expert and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital.
“This can be done with strict enforcement of maximum pressure sanctions, and a targeted campaign against regime assets in the region – Yemen being a good example now. Washington will also need to add a critical third element to its otherwise economic and military pressure policy. Maximum support for the Iranian people.”
Lisa Daftari, a Middle East expert and editor-in-chief at The Foreign Desk, told Fox News Digital that while diplomacy often demands negotiation, extending any offer to Iran’s regime, even symbolically, risks legitimizing a government that has spent decades terrorizing its own people and funding proxies like Hamas, the Houthis and Hezbollah.
“This regime thrives on defiance, not dialogue. That has not changed. For over four decades, the mullahs have understood only one language: might,” Daftari said.
President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday that it would be better if the U.S. had direct talks with Iran.
“I think it goes faster, and you can understand the other side a lot better than if you go through intermediaries,” Trump said. “They wanted to use intermediaries. I don’t think that’s necessarily true anymore. I think they’re concerned. I think they feel vulnerable, and I don’t want them to feel that way.”
Trump also threatened to bomb Iran and impose secondary sanctions on Iranian oil if it did not come to the bargaining table over its nuclear program. Although the president said he preferred to make a deal, Trump did not rule out a military option.
“It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before,” President Trump told NBC News last weekend.
The U.S. expanded its deterrence efforts in the region, deploying additional squadrons of fighter jets, bombers, and predator drones to reinforce defensive air-support capabilities. The U.S. is also sending the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group to the region to join USS Harry S. Truman, which has been in the Middle East to fight against the Houthi’s in Yemen.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, responded with threats of his own and said that Iran would respond “decisively and immediately” to any threat issued by the U.S. Iran is still floating the idea of indirect talks, something the administration is reportedly considering.
Taleblu said, “Tehran’s counteroffer of indirect talks is the regime’s way of rejecting Trump while leaving the door open for talks that can be used as a shield against a potential preemptive attack.”
The president sent a letter to Khamenei expressing interest in making a deal on the nuclear issue. While increasing its military presence in the region, reports indicate that the Trump administration is considering indirect talks with Iran to curb the expansion of its nuclear program and avoid a direct confrontation.
Experts and observers of the region warn that Iran has used negotiating as a delaying tactic in the past and warn the Trump administration against entering into talks that might further embolden Iran.
“The Trump administration should impose full pressure on the regime in Iran given how weak the regime has become in the last several years. Indirect talks are the regime’s strategy of buying time so it can live to fight another day,” Alireza Nader, an independent analyst in Washington, D.C., and expert on Iran, told Fox News Digital.
Nader’s recommendation to Trump is to support the people of Iran and argued that the regime is much weaker than it appears.
“President Trump really wants a deal. Iran has a chance here to go back and negotiate, keep its civilian nuclear program but make concessions about its size and the duration of a deal,” Alex Vatanka, senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, told Fox News Digital.
“Trump is in a dominant position. Republicans in Congress fear him. Nothing can stop him—at least for now. But power is fickle. The longer he’s in the White House, the more vulnerable he may become. Iran shouldn’t wait for that,” Vatanka added.
In an interview with Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies podcast, “The Iran Breakdown,” former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said that eventually, Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear facility, with or without the United States, because there is no other choice, according to Lapid.
Ali Larijani, an advisor to the supreme leader, said in an interview that although Iran does not seek a nuclear weapon, Tehran will have no choice but to build a nuclear weapon if the U.S. or Israel strike Iran.
The International Atomic Energy Agency reported in February that Iran has accelerated its nuclear program and has enriched uranium close to weapons-grade levels.
Danielle Pletka, senior fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), told Fox News Digital that having additional military assets in the Middle East is sound policy given the threats that the U.S. and its allies face in the region.
For Pletka, the question is, what is the Trump administration looking for?
“A deal in which the Iranians do not fully get rid of their nuclear weapons program? If so, the president sets the United States up for the risk that Barack Obama inflicted on our allies and ourselves – merely delaying the Iranian nuclear program to a later date,” Pletka told Fox News Digital.
Pletka said it is strange that President Trump seems to envision a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)-like deal, and that has prompted a lot of criticism on Capitol Hill.
Trump originally withdrew from JCPOA, also known as the Iran nuclear deal, during his first term in 2018 and reapplied harsh economic sanctions. The Biden administration had initially looked at re-engaging with Iran on the nuclear issue upon taking office, but on-again-off-again talks went nowhere, complicated by Iran’s domestic politics and its role in supporting its terror groups in the region.
The other risk that the president runs, according to AEI’s Pletka, is being perceived as a paper tiger.
“He threatened Hamas with bombing that he never delivered. Now he’s threatening Iran with military action. But does he really mean it? Or is he just blowing hot air?” she said.
Pletka said, “There is an enormous amount of uncertainty around the president’s intentions, and that uncertainty is an opportunity for the Iranians to exploit.”
The Middle East Institute’s Vatanka said he believed that Trump could claim a potential win he can sell at home and say he got a better deal than President Obama did with the JCPOA, if Iran were to agree to permanently keep its enrichment level to a low level, unlike the expiration dates included in the JCPOA.
With jury selection underway for her second murder trial in the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, attorneys for Karen Read are appealing a lower court’s ruling that she is not facing double jeopardy to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Read’s first trial ended with a mistrial last year, but her lawyers have argued that the jury agreed unanimously that she was not guilty of two of the three charges, including the most serious of murder, and that keeping those on the books for her second trial is unconstitutionally placing her on trial twice for the same crime.
The Fifth Amendment guarantees constitutional protection from facing double jeopardy – trial or punishment for the same offense twice.
After a mistrial, a retrial can normally proceed – but Read’s lawyers argue the unique circumstances in her case place her under double jeopardy on the two charges jurors agreed on but did not announce.
Over days of stalled deliberations, jurors repeatedly sent notes to the court explaining they were at an impasse, and Judge Beverly Cannone instructed them to keep trying. Deliberations began on June 25, 2024. By July 1, with jurors still deadlocked, the judge declared a mistrial.
In their appeal, Read’s lawyers said the judge did not give counsel for either side the opportunity to speak and dismissed the jury without asking them if they were locked on all charges or any charges individually.
The next day, a juror identified as Juror A contacted Read’s attorney, Alan Jackson, and told him that the panel had “unanimously agreed that Karen Read is not guilty of Count 1 (second-degree murder),” according to the lawsuit.
Text messages purportedly sent from Juror B expressed similar claims, according to the lawsuit. Jurors C and D also reached out to Read’s team with similar versions of events, according to the filing.
Additionally, at least one juror said it in a voicemail for prosecutors.
“It was not guilty on second degree,” Juror B wrote in a text shared with another Read attorney, David Yannetti. “And split in half for the second charge…I thought the prosecution didn’t prove the case. No one thought she hit him on purpose or even thought she hit him on purpose.”
In a phone conversation, Read’s lawyers claim Juror B clarified the second sentence of that text, saying it should have read, “No one thought she hit him on purpose or even knew that she had hit him.”
The murder charge was “off the table,” according to the filing, and Juror A also said jurors agreed that Read was not guilty of leaving the scene.
Read was arrested on charges of drunken driving, manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident, and later indicted for the additional charge of second-degree murder after she allegedly backed into O’Keefe outside a party and drove away, leaving him to die on the ground in a snowstorm.
If her appeal is successful, she would just face the manslaughter charge.
Appellate courts in Massachusetts have already denied her request, finding that because no verdict had been read in court, she was not acquitted of any charges and is not facing double jeopardy. Her legal team turned to the nation’s highest court this week, asking them to review a lower court’s decision and for a post-trial hearing on the matter.
Read could face life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder at her second trial, which began Tuesday. She has pleaded not guilty and denied involvement in O’Keefe’s death, with her defense presenting her as a scapegoat being framed by the alleged true killers.
