Yes, Kamala Harris wants to run for president. No one else wants her to.
“At one point earlier this year, the DNC reached out to big donors to host a San Francisco-area fundraiser headlined by former Vice President Kamala Harris. Most of the donors rejected the request,” the Wall Street Journal reported, citing individuals familiar with the conversations. While the DNC eventually found a host, the fundraiser brought in less than the committee had hoped.
“Upon receiving the invitation, one [donor] replied with a profanity-laced rejection,” the report noted. “Others said they didn’t want to give to the party until it produced substantive plans to win elections. Those who declined told the national party they had commitments and couldn’t make it work.”
None of that is stopping Kamala who is signaling even more loudly that she wants to run again.
In her first UK interview, Harris said she would “possibly” be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future.
Asked if it would be her, she said, “possibly”, confirming she is considering another run at the top job.
“I am not done,” the former vice-president said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it’s in my bones.”
It’s somewhere all right. Unless Kamala’s ego is made of bones. And her career of “service” consisted of failing at every job and being promoted because of her identity and connections.
Responding to odds that place her as an outsider to win a place on the Democratic ticket – even behind Hollywood actor Dwayne the Rock Johnson – she said she never listened to polls.
“If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office – and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here.”
I mean that’s true, but not really in a good ‘Trumpian’ way. Getting beyond Senate involved a dead end run for president that completely collapsed, but set her up to be VP.
Trying for the presidential spot again would be insane, but not impossible because her party doesn’t have much of a talent bench, and if Newsom and Buttigieg flame out, and Kamala gets the black vote, which seems likely, she could be the nominee, and if voters hate the economy, entirely possible, president.
So ignoring polls can work, but it wouldn’t work out because of Kamala’s talent or abilities, but because everything else is falling apart, which is how she became the presidential nominee when the actual nominee had to be bounced due to senility.
When I challenged the former vice-president on why her campaign did not better connect with working people, she said she needed more time to do that, and pointed to a longstanding drift away from her party among that group. She regrets she didn’t have long enough in 2024 to make her own pitch on bread-and-butter issues like housing, or childcare.
She had plenty of time to
1. Chat with celebrities
2. Talk about ‘joy’
3. Take out an ad on the ‘Sphere’
It doesn’t help that Kamala has never had to deal with childcare or housing. But surely next time around…
