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.”

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2028 presidential run

Please fucking don’t.

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Harris’ political options are closed.

Harris managed to convince the DNC to forgo a primary and annoint them and then they lost the fucking election.

End.

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Lost all THREE branches of government. A colossal failure of a campaign.

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-Former VPs

-From California

-Lost an election < You are here

-Ran for California Governor

-Ran for the presidency again

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Reagan? Reagan 2.0?

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The way Democrats are tacking to the right it’s not far off

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God, I hope not.

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2 points

More like a Nixon 2.0

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It worked for Tricky Dick.

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Tbf, when Biden dropped out, there really wasn’t a lot of time to organize 50 primaries according to each state’s election rules and then get the result onto the general ballot in time for those deadlines.

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tbf, Biden shouldn’t have run for re-election in the first place.

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There absolutely was - primaries have relatively lax laws and aren’t legally binding, so even an improvised approach wouldn’t have been illegal.

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You got any sources for that? When Biden stepped down initially they were looking for who would replace him. His vice president / running mate was an obvious choice. I don’t think I ever read anything about her trying to convince them. More then trying to convince her.

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General observations of the universe. There were discussions about having a snap primary and then suddenly Harris was the nominee.

I can’t say for certain if she pursued that end herself but even if she wasn’t the primary architect she consented to forgo a primary.

Edit: We’re all observers to what happened - the outcome was predictable given how the DNC has operated… how is this surprising?

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So you don’t have any actual evidence of your claims. Just biased perceptions.

And no none of this is surprising. What would have been surprising is if anyone individually or collectively took any responsibility for this outcome. Spreading distortions and misinformation. Helping a fascist win.

I have no real love for liberals. But all the so called lefties that felt comfortable not showing solidarity against actual fascism. Because things weren’t perfect. Get far less. Don’t get me wrong, as someone with a strong anarchist Dejacque Libertarian lean. I’m not here to force anyone to vote even. Or vote for anyone specifically. But I have no qualms about pointing out people disingenuously heaping undeserved criticism on liberals. While failing to acknowledge and learn the lessons of their own mistakes.

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General observations of the universe.

I know a guy says shit like that whenever we call him on some really obvious bullshit. Its lefte biased against this, and I’m sorry for assuming you’re completely without basis.

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Yeah, no. She’s no longer a viable candidate.

But I’m sure the DNC will think differently, which is one more reason why this timeline is the worst.

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Luckily, the DNC strips their underwear only for Hillary Clinton, so Kamala should be okay

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I could be wrong but I think she’s done for good. She didn’t do a good enough job obviously, and advisers helped her to fail.

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Jesus could have run against trump, healing the sick and forgiving loans left and right, and still the misinformationskiy would have overpowered him.

More than half of Americans are not literate enough to read medicine warning labels.

Its not Harris who failed the people. The problem started a decade ago.

Secede already.

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Yup. As many failures as Harris has had, it doesn’t come close to the amount of insanity it takes to justify a vote for Trump. Around half of the American voters have failed America and to me, there’s no one else to blame.

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More than half of Americans are not literate enough to read medicine warning labels.

to be fair what the fuck is an antihistamine containing hydroxyzine

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She’s welcome to try, but no universe exists in which Harris wins the Democratic primary. So unless the exact set of circumstance that led to her candidacy in 2024 are somehow repeated (fat chance), she has no path to the presidency.

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Biden 2028?

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I mean half the reason he was replaced is because he likely won’t last until 2028.

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I was joking because after his '28 run, she could get the same ‘in’ (though not really the same, because he wouldn’t run again only to drop out).

Failed joke.

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My bet is that he’ll outlive Trump.

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