Someone needs to show former Vice President Kamala Harris the 2024 electoral map because she keeps claiming she lost the “closest” election of the 21st Century — but that is not true.

Harris has made the claim several times on her recent tour to promote 107 Days, her new book about her failed attempt to beat President Donald Trump in last year’s election. The latest example came on Friday, where Harris, during a visit to her alma mater, Howard University, told students at the campus bookstore that she nearly topped Trump.

“By the way, what is also historic about that, in many ways — it was the closest election for president of the United States in the 21st Century,” Harris said. “Period. Period.”

The answer drew a cheer from the small crowd; one proud attendee shouted out: “And a Howard grad did that!”

Harris concurred, repeating the line back to her, “And a Howard grad did that,” before waving her index finger at everyone and laughing.

Of course, Harris did not lose the closet election of the 21st Century. Trump beat Harris in the electoral college last year, 312-226, which was the widest margin this century beyond former President Barack Obama’s two presidential victories in 2008 and 2012.

As Mediaite’s Isaac Schorr noted earlier this week, Harris wasn’t closer than any other loser in the popular vote, either. Former President George W. Bush lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College in 2000, as did Trump in 2016.

And she wasn’t the closest to “tipping” the Electoral College — calculated by evaluating the shortest possible path to winning enough states to take the White House — falling short of the performances of former Vice President Al Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Trump in 2020.

The former vice president repeated the claim on Friday, a few days after she had made the same proclamation on MSNBC. At the time, host Rachel Maddow declined to push back on that claim while sitting across from Harris.

President Trump was not thrilled with Harris’ bogus statement, and on Wednesday, he demanded Harris apologize for it. “Everyone knows this is a lie,” Trump posted on Truth Social, while also blasting Harris for being “DUMB AS A ROCK.”

It does not look like he will be getting that apology anytime soon.

Harris, a moment before reiterating her “closest” claim on Friday, said it is remarkable how well she performed, considering she was put in the “unprecedented” position of replacing President Joe Biden atop the Democratic ticket deep into the campaign. Trump, Harris told the Howard crowd, had been “running for 10 years” straight and had a huge advantage on her and her 107 days to win the race.

The full three minute video of her appearance at Howard was shared by @liveonLock on TikTok on Friday. You can watch it by clicking here. It was then picked up and shared by several X accounts, racking up more than 6 million views in the process. You can see a slice of it above.

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