Kamala Harris tour is a fan fest

Crowds cheered at her L.A. stop for her presidential campaign memoir, '107 Days.'

- LORRAINE ALI NEWS AND CULTURE CRITIC

THE WILTERN Theatre is one of the latest stops on Kamala Harris' book tour.

(JASON ARMOND Los Angeles Times)

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has yet to decide if she'll run for president in 2028. She's also not going to dish on her former boss, Joe Biden. And her advice for a brown-skinned person just getting into politics?

There will be many situations when you walk into a meeting room and no one looks like you. Keep your chin up, your shoulders back and remember — all of us have your back.

“All of us” referred to the cheering, sold-out crowd at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles last Tuesday evening who'd come to see the former Democratic presidential candidate speak about her new book, the election-campaign memoir “107 Days.” They chanted “Kamala!” “Kamala!” as she walked on stage.

The outbursts of adoration continued for the next hour in eruptions of applause and supportive shout-outs (“We love you!”) as she spoke about everything from the need to pass Proposition 50 to how she coped with the devastating loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Moderated by actor Kerry Washington, “A Conversation With Kamala Harris” was one of nearly 20 stops on a tour that’s already seen Harris speak in New York, London and at the Wiltern in September. Zealous attendees paid $55 to $190 on tickets to see Harris again following “one of the wildest and most consequential campaigns in American history” (the latter is an official descriptor for her book).