Harris is telling her advisers and allies to keep her political options open
Harris is telling her advisers and allies to keep her political options open
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.
79Harris' 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.
66Lost all THREE branches of government. A colossal failure of a campaign.
26Tbf, 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.
19You 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.
17General 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?
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Yeah, no. She's no longer a viable candidate.
But I'm sure the DNC will think differently, which is one more reason why this timeline is the worst.
40Luckily, the DNC strips their underwear only for Hillary Clinton, so Kamala should be okay
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I could be wrong but I think she's done for good. She didn't do a good enough job obviously, and advisers helped her to fail.
40Jesus could have run against trump, healing the sick and forgiving loans left and right, and still the misinformationskiy would have overpowered him.
More than half of Americans are not literate enough to read medicine warning labels.
Its not Harris who failed the people. The problem started a decade ago.
Secede already.
21Yup. As many failures as Harris has had, it doesn't come close to the amount of insanity it takes to justify a vote for Trump. Around half of the American voters have failed America and to me, there's no one else to blame.
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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.
33Great, 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.
26A mediocre candidate who lost the 2020 primary badly and only got the VP spot because she was buddies with Bidens dead son. She them went on to lose badly to Trump.
I voted for her but it was really a vote for Not Trump. Hopefully this the last we hear of her.
23She needs to fade off into obscurity.
19Hey 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!
7Did she even really want to be president?
1She cant win in any open primary.
1Could she be the Democrats Nixon?
-15she'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
12I'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 win. 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.
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