Kamala Harris has decided it is comeback season again, and she’s rolling it out with all the confidence of someone who apparently learned nothing from 2024. In a BBC interview, her first since losing the election to President Trump, she accused him of acting like a “tyrant” while also dropping the strongest hint yet that she wants another shot in 2028. It is a bold strategy to call the guy who beat you a tyrant while floating your own return to power, but Harris has never shied away from interesting choices.
She told the BBC, “I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones.” That line would have landed better if voters hadn’t already watched her spend years failing to connect with anyone outside the Georgetown cocktail circuit. Harris insisted she believes the United States will elect a female president in her lifetime. When asked if that woman might be her, she tossed out a “possibly,” the political version of a shrug that still hopes someone will ask a follow up question.
The interviewer noted that bookmakers are literally giving Dwayne The Rock Johnson better odds than her. She waved that off by saying she never puts much stock in polls, which is convenient for someone who has been underwater in almost every approval survey she touched.
Then Harris pivoted to President Trump and accused him of “weaponizing” the Department of Justice. This is quite a claim coming from someone who served in an administration that dragged the country through years of selective prosecution. She said, “He said he would weaponize the Department of Justice, and he has done exactly that,” then pointed to the brief suspension of Jimmy Kimmel after he falsely claimed Charlie Kirk had been killed by a Trump supporter. Apparently a comedian getting benched for making something up now counts as evidence of creeping authoritarianism.
The White House fired back immediately. Spokesperson Abigail Jackson said Harris should have taken the hint after losing in a landslide. Jackson added that Americans are tired of her “absurd lies” and wondered why Harris is airing grievances to foreign outlets instead of taking responsibility for anything.
Even with all the drama, Harris still leads the early Democratic polling averages. She sits at about 24 percent. Gavin Newsom is close behind at 21 percent. Pete Buttigieg is hanging around in third place but continues to struggle badly with black voters, a problem that usually does not get better on its own.
So Harris is teasing another run. The Democratic field is already shaping up to be a crowded rerun of familiar faces. For now she is banking on the idea that timing is everything, though timing only matters if voters still want you in the first place.
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