After one of the worst political drubbings in the history of the republic, that being the 2024 presidential election, the loser – Kamala Harris – is apparently trying to decide how to stage a comeback.
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We should note that she was taken out by one of, if not the, greatest political comebacks in American history: Trump II, The Return of Trump, which will be recorded, reviewed, and analyzed in political playbooks for generations and deservedly so. But what happens to Kamala Harris now?
Turns out she does have a couple of possibilities.
Top aides and people close to Kamala Harris have divided over whether she should head home to run for California governor in 2026 — and it all comes down to whether they believe she could win the Democratic nomination for president in an expected competitive primary in 2028.
Some believe a repeat run, after quickly improving her reputation and raising more than $1 billion over her surprise 100-day race, should be hers for the taking. Others worry that in a longer campaign, against some of the other major Democratic contenders who already sat out 2024 in deference first to Joe Biden and then to her, Harris might fizzle out and follow her loss to Donald Trump with the humiliation of being rejected by her own party.
Would she stand a chance, even running for Governor of deep-blue California? I’m not so sure.
The governor’s race, meanwhile, looks like a lay-up: Harris was elected statewide three times and served 10 years combined as state attorney general and US senator, and when asked by CNN, several major candidates made clear either directly or through aides that they would likely step aside if she got in.
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Yeah, color me skeptical. Kamala Harris won those three statewide elections before her bumbling, incompetent presidential bid. She also won them before Donald Trump rewrote the book of American politics and turned a lot of California outside of the cities red. An attempt by the Queen of Word Salads to make a statewide bid may be just enough to allow a California Republican to peel off enough votes to win the gubernatorial race. Granted, Gavin Newsom won re-election handily in 2022, with almost 56 percent of the vote. He ran, however, against quite a slate of Republicans; if the California GOP can manage to get its Anatidaearranged in a linear fashion and coalesce behind one strong candidate, the odds may change – especially if they are running against the inarticulate and inept Kamala Harris.
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But another shot at the presidency in 2028? Don’t make me laugh.
Another presidential run would probably end up for Kamala Harris much like the 2020 attempt did – an embarrassing performance followed by a quick exit. In the first Democrat primary debate in 2019, Tulsi Gabbard neatly exposed Kamala Harris for the vapid hack she is. Gabbard absolutely eviscerated Harris on that debate stage and, in so doing, wrote the playbook on how to do it again. Kamala Harris’ record as vice president hardly inspires confidence either, as in one of her key roles as border czar, she proved an utter failure. It’s unclear as to whether she was even actually within sight of the border – either border – unless she was flying over it at 36,000 feet.
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Harris can’t count on another anointment. There are too many Democrats who, sensing weakness as a grizzly senses a nearby moose carcass, would rise up to challenge her.
The truth is, Kamala Harris should probably get used to the idea of a life outside of politics. She may stand some chance to be Governor of California – a small chance, I should think – but then again, she may not, and another loss would spell the end of any future she has in the political realm. No, Kamala, if she were to take my advice, would be better off having some fluff “biography” ghost-written and doing some speaking tours, as ex-pols so often do. As far as major elective offices, though, she’s probably finished.