Overview
- Williams spoke on the On Par With Maury Povich podcast on Monday, July 6, and said he keeps private details from the 2001 relationship with Harris, adding “I’m one of those guys that I don’t kiss and tell.”
- He told the show that Harris’s late-starting 2024 campaign—launched about four months before the election after President Biden stepped aside—was the main factor he believes led to her loss.
- Williams called Harris “one of the smartest people” he has met and said she “could have done a good job” as president while describing timing and public misconceptions about her as decisive problems.
- He also expressed the view that the United States is unlikely to elect a woman president in the next four to five years, a remark that has rekindled discussion about gender and electability.
- The comments have drawn attention to viral 2001 photos of the pair at a Race to Erase MS gala and to Harris’s continued openness in interviews and memoir excerpts about possibly running for office again.