The boost embattled California Gov. Gavin Newsom was hoping for from Vice President Kamala Harris will have to wait as the crisis in Afghanistan engulfing the White House puts political activity on hold.

Harris was scheduled to campaign for Newsom Friday in the San Francisco Bay area in a bid to light a fire under apathetic Democratic voters ahead of a Sept. 14 special election that could see him recalled from office. The stop was canceled Thursday after a terrorist attack in Kabul that left 13 American service members and scores of Afghans dead, a move that might have saved Newsom, not to mention the vice president, from some embarrassing headlines.