Kamala Harris has been lying low since her defeat in the presidential race, unwinding with family and senior aides in Hawaii before heading back to the nation’s capital.
But privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years. As Harris has repeated in phone calls, “I am staying in the fight.”
She is expected to explore those and other possible paths forward with family members over the winter holiday season, according to five people in the Harris inner circle, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. Her deliberations follow an extraordinary four months in which Harris went from President Joe Biden’s running mate to the top of the ticket, reenergizing Democrats before ultimately crashing on election night.
“She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” said one former Harris campaign aide. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.”
2028 presidential run
Please fucking don’t.
She needs to fade off into obscurity.
Harris’ political options are closed.
Harris managed to convince the DNC to forgo a primary and annoint them and then they lost the fucking election.
End.
Tbf, when Biden dropped out, there really wasn’t a lot of time to organize 50 primaries according to each state’s election rules and then get the result onto the general ballot in time for those deadlines.
There absolutely was - primaries have relatively lax laws and aren’t legally binding, so even an improvised approach wouldn’t have been illegal.
You got any sources for that? When Biden stepped down initially they were looking for who would replace him. His vice president / running mate was an obvious choice. I don’t think I ever read anything about her trying to convince them. More then trying to convince her.
General observations of the universe. There were discussions about having a snap primary and then suddenly Harris was the nominee.
I can’t say for certain if she pursued that end herself but even if she wasn’t the primary architect she consented to forgo a primary.
Edit: We’re all observers to what happened - the outcome was predictable given how the DNC has operated… how is this surprising?
-Former VPs
-From California
-Lost an election < You are here
-Ran for California Governor
-Ran for the presidency again
Reagan? Reagan 2.0?
More like a Nixon 2.0
At least Nixon did a few decent things, something that is absolutely impossible to say about Ronald Reagan. Although… he did get seriously demented in his second term, maybe I’m a bit too negative.
God, I hope not.
She’s welcome to try, but no universe exists in which Harris wins the Democratic primary. So unless the exact set of circumstance that led to her candidacy in 2024 are somehow repeated (fat chance), she has no path to the presidency.
Biden 2028?
I mean half the reason he was replaced is because he likely won’t last until 2028.
I was joking because after his '28 run, she could get the same ‘in’ (though not really the same, because he wouldn’t run again only to drop out).
Failed joke.
Great, another useless figurehead. Kamala Harris took the Democratic nomination, and lost every single swing state, while her team fundraised telling us all she was going to win. She’s never getting my vote again.
She should have been honest and told us she was going to lose all along.
Hey don’t you worry about it… In the next three point five years you’ll see an amazing growth and national prominence in the incredible third parties our “lefty” friends have been promoting as they have the time and inclination to do the hard work it takes to become a presidential contender.
Next Presidential Election when they’re all like “I refuse to vote for either party” it’ll be because [insert party name here] has been on fire in all 50 states and is ready to take down the duopoly! Go get 'em! Everyone hates the Dems, let’s carpe the fuck outta this diem! Yeah!
Or, y’know, just bitch about everything for 3.5 years, do nothing, and fuck it up again. Whatever. I doubt there’ll be an election anyway so - pressure’s off!
Could she be the Democrats Nixon?
she’s not getting my vote again, i was willing to go with her on this last ride, because she kept telling me it was close in every swing state, then she lost them all
I’d absolutely like to see better candidates all around. But I don’t have any issue with her if she wanted to run again. I don’t think she will when. And I don’t think the loss was strictly hers alone. This last cycle was a true cluster f***. You have to remember the week of the election. Google searches spiked regarding whether or not Biden was still a candidate.
People are eager to deflect any blame from themselves. And push it all on to the Democratic party absolving themselves. And while the Democratic Party did run a bad campaign. Plenty of undecided had negative impact on voter turnout Etc. Of course there was always misinformation and Russian propaganda involved as well.
