Kamala Harris said Friday she might make a third bid for the presidency.
The Rev. Al Sharpton asked the former vice president point blank at the National Action Network conference in New York City if she will run for president in 2028.
“Listen, I might,” Harris said. “I’m thinking about it.”
The comments were Harris’ strongest and most direct on the issue of whether she is considering running again.
The former vice president had earlier received some of the loudest cheers of any prospective 2028 Democratic presidential contender who had so far spoken at the conference, which included Govs. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania and Wes Moore of Maryland, as well as Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz.
Chants of “run again” rang out in the Manhattan ballroom where Harris sat for her conversation with Sharpton, the founder of the civil rights group.
“Let me also say this, I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States … I know what the job is, and I know what it requires,” Harris said.
She added it’s become increasingly clear to her “the status quo is not working, and it hasn’t been working for a lot of people for a long time.”
“And part of the issue is the need to get rid of some of the bureaucracy in government and to understand that the people … don’t want process, they want progress,” she said.
“Look, the American people have the right to expect that anyone who wants to run for office and be a leader, that it can’t be about themselves and what they want for themselves has to be about the American people,” she added. “And that’s how I think of it and I am thinking about it in the context of … who and where and how can the best job be done for the American people? I’ll keep you posted.”
Very early polling of a potential 2028 presidential race shows Harris at the top of the field, though that is in part because people know who she is and recognize her name more than many of the other potential contestants. In October, Harris told the BBC that she would “possibly” run for president in the future.
Harris lost the 2024 presidential election to President Donald Trump after becoming the Democratic nominee when President Joe Biden stepped aside under heavy pressure from the party. In 2020, she dropped out of the presidential race before the start of the primary calendar and was later picked as Biden’s vice presidential nominee.
In her lengthy conversation with Sharpton, Harris excoriated the president and focused heavily on contrasting his foreign policy with that of her and President Biden, as well as their predecessors.
“So he enters into this war, a war of choice,” Harris said of the war with Iran. “Remember, the man said he got rid of their nuclear arsenal, obliterated it. He said — you know how he likes to use those kinds of words, obliterated it, which is not an ambiguous term, that means you took it out — well, evidently, he didn’t do that.”
She said the president’s actions overseas have led to U.S. service members being killed and injured, the straining of longtime alliances and has increased costs for Americans at home.
“And the American citizens will always pay for war,” she said, adding, “And I heard friends in the room say he lied. He lied. He told the American people on Day 1 he was going to break down prices and costs and he lied.”
White House spokesman Kush Desai responded to Harris saying Trump had lied by casting doubt on the former vice president’s comments that she worked at McDonald’s while in college. During the 2024 campaign, the Trump team repeatedly cast doubt on the truth to that bit of her life story.
“Kamala Harris?” Desai said in a statement. “The Biden border czar who lied about working at McDonalds?”
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Hooray!!! 👍👍👍🇺🇲
I hope she runs again too! lol
At this point I will vote for anyone not associated with Donald by god Trump. I will never understand why voters had such a grudge against her. She is smart, well educated and can form a coherent sentence. Everything Trump is not.
I would be happy to vote for her again. (She was one of my top 3 choices in 2019; Joe Biden was not.)
“I will never understand why voters had such a grudge against her.”
She’s Black, and she’s female. Either of those is a hard pass for a sizeable amount of the population.
While ruSSia has a vodka problem, the United States has a Whiskey problem.
Kamala is not Black.
Well, half Black and half Asian. But those prejudiced against Blacks, the qualifier doesn’t matter.
Here’s a picture of her with her father, when she was an infant:
https://archives1.sundayobserver.lk/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/news/2020/08/22/z_p07-Explained.jpg?itok=aYfugEeN
Nice pic!
Harris’ birth certificate in images online, opens new tab does not include her race. It lists her mother’s birthplace as India and her mother’s race as Caucasian, while her father’s birthplace is listed as Jamaica and his race as Jamaican.
In the entry that says “Color or race of Father” they put down Jamaican, but he’s actually Afro-Jamaican, and had they put down color, it would have been Black.
Nobody cares about her color but what she stands for, and i’m sure a majority will fully support her
How about something like, credible? That’s been really lacking in politics lately, especially in the Democrat party. I don’t care if they’re male or female, green or purple…
Dems are gonna fuck it up AGAIN. She is a fuckin moron Dems will lose again because of their idiotic ideology rather then looking at someone who can win. Kamala will lose. You mat not like it but that scumbag Vance knows how to speak to people, regular people. He fuckin communicating. . Kamala lectures.
Please don’t!
To set the record straight, Kamala is smarter than both the fat orange cheeto and the guy with the makeup combined, and her morals are all there, while the other two have none. However, many Americans – too many – will not look at such features when they elect their president. They lack intelligence and moral compasses and are willing to vote for garbage when the exterior looks “right”. Our country is still not ready for a woman as president, especially a non-white one.
I hope the Democrats will tread more carefully in the next presidential election and not screw up again.
I have more faith in both the American people and Kamala. Trump won because our southern border was left wide open and Mexico was not pressured by Biden to close their fucking border with garbage central America. (I don’t mean Costa Rica. 😂)
It was a vote against immigration, not Kamala. I hope the Dems will get their asses up in that matter, then all will be good. 🤠
Right, our borders should’ve been closed. Period.
However, the average person is very stupid, and so didn’t know that by electing a Trump, he or she would replace one evil (open borders) with an even worse evil (Trump).