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.”
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 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.