Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) accused former Vice President Kamala Harris of telling “blatant lies” to write her postcampaign memoir “107 Days” and “cover her a–,” according to a profile about the governor published in The Atlantic on Wednesday.

Reporter Tim Alberta described Shapiro as “between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts” about him from Harris’s book. She accused Shapiro of taking over the conversation when he was interviewed to be her running mate, allegedly insisting on being “in the room for every decision,” Alberta wrote.

“She wrote that in her book?” Shapiro asked. “That’s complete bulls—. I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies.”

Alberta also told Shapiro about some of the questions Harris recounted him asking her during the interview, including about the size of the vice president’s Naval Observatory home and if the governor could loan Pennsylvania art for the residence.

Shapiro defended himself and said that anyone would ask questions “if someone was talking to you about forming a partnership and working together.” When asked if he felt betrayed by Harris, Shapiro “snapped,” Alberta wrote.

“I mean, she’s trying to sell books and cover her a–,” Shapiro responded before he backtracked and told Alberta, “I shouldn’t say ‘cover her a–.’ I think that’s not appropriate. She’s trying to sell books. Period.”

Harris passed on Shapiro, who was among the names floated to be her potential vice president, and instead chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D).

Shapiro also went after the Democratic Party, which lost the swing state he oversees to President Trump. The president won Pennsylvania with just more than 50 percent of the vote, while Harris received nearly 49 percent.

“Democrats lost ground in some of these communities by failing to show up and failing to treat people with a level of respect that they deserve,” Shapiro told Alberta. “Donald Trump has been a once-in-a-generation political figure who’s managed to connect on a deeper cultural level.”

In September, Shapiro jabbed Harris for not talking about former President Biden’s decision to drop out of the race. Shapiro was among the Democrats who questioned Biden’s physical fitness in running for a second term.

“I was direct with them,” Shapiro said on sports commentator Stephen A. Smith’s SiriusXM show. “I told them my concerns.”

At the time, Shapiro said he had not read “107 Days.”

The memoir was met with some criticism from other prominent Democrats, including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Harris wrote that he was her “first choice” for a running mate, but that their ticket would have been “too risky.” Buttigieg said he was “surprised” to read that.

She also called California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to ask for an endorsement after Biden dropped out of the race, according to the book. She received the text reply, “Hiking. Will call back,” and said Newsom did not call her back.

Newsom told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” in October that he did not know why that “was even in the book.”

“And I sent out an endorsement a few minutes after [my text] as one of her first endorsements,” Newsom said. “I’ve known Kamala all my life. The last person she needs an endorsement from is me.”

Shapiro, Buttigieg, Newsom and Harris are all among the growing list of possible Democratic contenders in the 2028 presidential race.

Trump’s revenge and retribution tour is hurting Americans and Republicans

While hardworking Americans battle soaring costs to feed their families, President Trump’s revenge and retribution tour against his political enemies continues with a vengeance. He fixates on President Biden autopens while parents lose sleep over price increases for groceries and health care for themselves and their families.

Visions of Ebenezer Scrooge’s greed in “A Christmas Carol” will conjure up the ghosts of Trump’s heartless indifference to the suffering of financially hard-pressed families.

Trump is a wounded jungle beast that gets angrier the more it bleeds. He is primed for revenge, which only exacerbates his problems. His job rating is so low that it must rise significantly just to reach mediocre. But history doesn’t offer presidents much hope in improving their standing in the sixth year of a presidency.

Insulting female reporters, striking out against immigrants and threatening a land war against Venezuela only prolongs his agony, Republican anguish and the nation’s suffering. The more time he spends on these distractions, the less energy and attention he devotes to fixing the economy, which is the public’s priority.

The big polling news was the release of a national Gallup survey that had presidential approval at a near record low of 36 percent for any president in his second term.

His grade for handling the economy is deep underwater. It would be wrong to describe his decline as free fall since it probably can’t fall much further. Hardly any Democrat approves of his presidency, very few political independents do.

The only Americans who still support him are diehard MAGA minions and even some of them are getting antsy. Trump believes he can rely on his old standbys — crime and immigration — for live support but the public faults him on those issues too.

The Democratic overperformance in Tuesday’s special congressional election, in a crimson red Tennessee district, is a vivid illustration of public frustration with the state of the nation and Trump’s tenure. Trump won’t be on the ballot next November, so voters will target congressional Republicans to vent their spleen.

We’re a year away so the situation could change but right now GOP prospects are ugly. Approval for the Republican Congress hovers barely over single digits and their president’s job rating is in the toilet. This creates a toxic brew that could be poisonous for MAGA nation unless Trump and his cronies come up with a plan to fix the economy.

Voters worried about feeding their families won’t wait long for Republicans to deliver. Trump may think that his hardcore right-wing base will bail Republicans out as it has in the past. But MAGA isn’t what it used to be. Even Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has jumped the sinking Trump ship.

His job rating probably can’t get any lower, but the problem might even get worse for congressional Republicans, who face a tough election a year from now. God only knows what the impact of the eventual full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files will be.

Even more damming is the likelihood of massive increases in the price of health insurance premiums if Congress fails to reauthorize Affordable Care Act subsidies within the next two weeks. ObamaCare was unpopular at its inception, but it has become a prized public possession as the life saving program has proved its worth over time. Trump and congressional Republicans kill off the Affordable Care Act at their own mortal peril.

Trump has been extremely critical of ObamaCare. But he has never released his own health care plan, even though he promised to do it 10 years ago when he began his first presidential campaign.

He has failed to deliver because he is caught between a rock and a hard place. He apparently would like to extend the Affordable Care Act temporarily to provide breathing room for Congress to come up with an alternative. But the Republican Congress has absolutely no appetite for keeping ObamaCare alive.

If Trump and congressional Republicans majorities fail to act quickly to this looming crisis, insurance premiums will skyrocket, the public will explode in anger and the Republican majorities will become minorities.

A Democratic House majority would clear the way for aggressive investigation of the corruption in the White House that has run rampant and cost taxpayers billions of their hard-earned dollars. Then the excrement will really hit the oscillating cooling device.

The impending crisis in the cost of health care offers Democrats a great deal of opportunity if they stay united and remain on message. If Trump’s approval rating continues to be toxic, my party can win the midterms on an anti-Trump cost of living message.

But to win the White House two years later, the party must develop bold and innovative plans to fight high costs in food and health care and repair the ugly mess of an economy that Trump created.