Apparently losing in a landslide was not the reality check Kamala Harris needed. After getting steamrolled by President Trump in 2024, most politicians would take the hint, write a memoir, collect speaking fees, and quietly fade into the background. Not Kamala. According to Axios, the former vice president is already signaling to Democrats that she wants to keep a 2028 presidential run very much alive.
This alone tells you a lot about the modern Democratic Party. Despite donor anxiety, party leader skepticism, and a recent electoral wipeout, Harris is still polling near the top of the early 2028 Democratic primary field. That should worry Democrats far more than Republicans. Harris reportedly retains strong support among Black voters, a critical bloc in Democratic primaries, which appears to be the main reason party insiders are still treating her as viable.
After spending the early part of this year laying low and then reemerging with a conveniently timed book tour about the 2024 election, Harris is now working the room again. She and her husband Doug Emhoff showed up at the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting in Los Angeles, mingling with state party chairs and national officials. DNC chair Ken Martin even joked that Emhoff could be a future first gentleman, a line that was clearly meant to test the waters rather than just get a laugh.
Harris also delivered remarks that sounded suspiciously like the opening act of another presidential campaign. She positioned herself as a so called change candidate, claiming both parties have failed to earn public trust and that Americans are “done with the status quo.” That is rich coming from someone who spent four years as vice president in one of the most unpopular administrations in modern history. If Harris represents change, then words have officially lost all meaning.
What is especially telling is how little responsibility Harris and her allies seem willing to take for her 2024 defeat. The quiet narrative inside Democratic circles is that Joe Biden was the problem, not Harris. That is convenient, but it ignores the obvious. Harris struggled to connect with voters, failed to articulate a clear vision, and became a punchline even among Democrats. Blaming Biden does not magically fix that.
She recently passed on running for governor of California, despite heavy speculation she would do so. In a statement, she said her leadership would not be in elected office for now, while teasing that more details about her plans are coming. Translation, she is keeping her powder dry for 2028.
If Harris does run, she will absolutely be a contender, not because she is strong, but because the Democratic bench is thin and unserious. RealClearPolitics shows her polling around 20 percent, second only to Gavin Newsom. That says less about Harris and more about the state of her party.
For Republicans, this is not bad news. Kamala Harris already showed the country who she is. If Democrats want to run that experiment again, President Trump and his supporters would be happy to remind voters how it turned out the first time.
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