Kamala Harris has been lying low since her defeat in the presidential race, unwinding with family and senior aides in Hawaii before heading back to the nation’s capital.
But privately, the vice president has been instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open — whether for a possible 2028 presidential run, or even to run for governor in her home state of California in two years. As Harris has repeated in phone calls, “I am staying in the fight.”
She is expected to explore those and other possible paths forward with family members over the winter holiday season, according to five people in the Harris inner circle, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal dynamics. Her deliberations follow an extraordinary four months in which Harris went from President Joe Biden’s running mate to the top of the ticket, reenergizing Democrats before ultimately crashing on election night.
“She doesn’t have to decide if she wants to run for something again in the next six months,” said one former Harris campaign aide. “The natural thing to do would be to set up some type of entity that would give her the opportunity to travel and give speeches and preserve her political relationships.”
This is some insane rationalization. 5 of the last 9, but the first 2 don’t count because they were a long time ago, and then the next 2 don’t count because it was a populist, and the last one didn’t count because the other guy was worse.
Yeah, I guess if you look at it that way, the Democrats do nothing but lose…
You cherry picked 9. Republicans won 11 of the last 19. See, everyone can do that.
And? 11 of the 19 is not “losing is our strategy.” It’s close to even (9.5 of 19).
But you forgot that none of the 8 Democratic wins count because of reasons.
8/19 vs 11 of 19. 42 to 58 percent. A 16 point difference seems “close to even” to you?
Well OK-- that explains how we came to the last election loss after we were assured the race was “close to even”.
