Harris Cancels Book Tour Dates Amid Questions About Taxpayer-Funded Security
The three canceled California appearances have also been removed from Harris’s official website, The Post noted. Advertisement 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. Advertisement 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.
It is unclear whether the events will be rescheduled
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.
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.
Harris is currently scheduled to continue the tour with events in Greensboro, North Carolina, on April 13 and Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 14
“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.
Remember when Trump talked shit on Rob Reiner the day he died, and liberals were all fake outraged? Now Kamala Harris and Joe Biden used Jesse Jackson’s actual funeral service to dunk on Trump. You still outraged now, libs?
— 🇺🇸 MAGA Michelle S 🇺🇸 (@MAGAMichelleS69) March 6, 2026
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Obama said similar things when it was his turn to speak, again in an accent that appeared to be playing to the crowd. Advertisement
🚨 JUST IN: Hussein Obama is now using Rev. Jesse Jackson's funeral to ATTACK MAGA as "bigots" and "bullies"
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 6, 2026
"That some Americans count more than others, and some don't count at all!"
Hussein is the most divisive president in modern history.pic.twitter.com/enna90m9Go
“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.
SHAME!
— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) March 7, 2026
The son of the late Rev. Jesse Jackson chides the left for turning his father's funeral into a political rally against President Trump and Republicans:
"DO NOT bring your politics, out of respect to Rev. Jesse Jackson, and the life that he lived, to these ongoing… pic.twitter.com/TNYJKPqJBs
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
Newsom has already received the endorsement of fellow Californian and retiring former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
