PHILADELPHIA — A little over a year ago, Kamala Harris, then the presumptive Democratic nominee, faced the daunting challenge of salvaging the presidential election for her party as she made her first appearance in Pennsylvania.

That August evening, before a raucous and packed Temple University auditorium, Harris both was imbued and stoked optimism as she made a case to the nation — and the most crucial swing state — that she would beat Donald Trump.

Some 13 months later, Harris on Thursday night returned to Philadelphia, this time striking a far more relaxed tone as she unpacked the insights of her warp-speed campaign, which anchors “107 Days,” her newly released memoir and the basis for the cross-country book tour.

The evening’s event at The Met, billed as a conversation with Harris

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