Kamala Harris. Politico/Getty.
Kamala Harris has hinted that she may run for President again. Politico. Harris said in an interview with the BBC that she was not done with politics and that "service was in (her) bones". She was asked directly if she would run, but she hedged, saying "possibly" and saying that she hasn't decided yet. Harris dismissed polling saying she would have an outside shot to win the primaries and general election by saying that if she listened to the polls she would not have had any success in her career. Harris also took a shot at Joe Biden, saying she should have encouraged him not to run due to his lack of stamina compared to President Trump.
My Comment:
Harris would be the least qualified candidate in an already poor field for the Democrats in 2028. The idea that she is even considering running is pretty much a joke. I can't see her winning a primary race, even against poor candidates like Gavin Newsom (who has run California into the ground) or Pete Buttigieg (who was the worst Transportation Secretary in American history). She's just not qualified for the job.
And she proves it too with this interview. She said that she should have told Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 race but didn't do so and for once, I agree with her. It was clear before Biden even took office that he was no longer mentally fit enough to president. She should have been pushing for Biden to resign the second he took office.
Instead, she stayed silent until now. This shows she does not have the judgement to be President and that she will put the party in front of her personal ambitions. Asking Biden to step down would have been the right thing to do but the Democrats would have crucified her for it. She did the politically expedient thing, not the right thing, and folks should remember that.
So why is she even entertaining a run? I am guessing it's ego. She's not blaming herself for running a bad campaign, she's blaming Biden for not dropping out. She hasn't learned a thing about why America didn't want her and is arrogant enough to think that if she had a full campaign cycle that she could somehow con America into voting for her. The fact that Trump won't be running in 2028 is another factor that might falsely convince her that she's got a shot.
And like I said, it's not like the Democrats have much else. Besides her., only Gavin Newsom has a shot (Pete Buttigieg won't be the candidate because black voters hate him). Newsom is going to be eaten alive, both in the primaries, and the general election if he makes it that far. Even Kamala Harris can rightly point out that he has run California into the ground to the point where folks are fleeing the state.
Harris also has the advantage of being a mixed race woman, things that the Democrats obsess over. She might just be able to play the race card to win the primaries. Doing so did not work for her during the election of course, but she can use it during the primaries to great effect.
Regardless, I think this is mostly nonsense. Some of it is to sell her book, but I think she's actually trying to protect her legacy. I don't think Harris is a hugely smart person by the standards of presidential candidates (though I don't think she's an idiot), but I am guessing she knows she doesn't have a chance to win in 2028. But I do think she wants folks to remember her the way she's framing it. She didn't lose against Trump because she was a bad candidate or Trump ran a masterful campaign. She lost because of Biden, a White Male, didn't do the "right thing" and drop out so she could be coronated.
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