Would Democrats run Kamala Harris — or any woman — in 2028?
Kamala Harris does not want to be the governor of California, who made a happy dance this week, many contestants (and some voters).
But with him He announced that he left a race on Wednesday He never officially entered, and in Harris 2028 he fired a speculation rush he warmed up in another race in the White House.
If you love HarrisXX chromosome by the former vice president of a possible run creates a perennial enigma: can a woman win the presidency?
“This question is legitimate,” Nadia E. Brown He told me.
He is the Government Professor and Director of Women and Gender Research Program at Georgetown University. After the election, The Democrats cannot understand who they are or what they represent. In this turmoil, it may seem easy and safe to visit the route, a flat, old white man who fills the status quo in 2028.
This may be true during the Trump period, as women believe that women actually belong. Sanwhichs is doing in the kitchenIt is far from any decision other than Türkiye or HAM.
Brown, even the democrats who show their progressive values, including how much they want to vote for a female president, The hidden sexism in the privacy of the voting cabin can contain.
After 2024, Harris’s defeat-and deciphering what he meant-caused many “anxiety and Agita after morning. “We all do research, we all try to understand it.”
While the Democrats were mixed, they were made in particular with their emotions, the Republicans made them the center of race and gender platforms, even if they hidden under economic speech. The party’s position on the race became clear that all undocumented immigrants were guilty and that they deserved terrible detention in places such as “Crocodile Alcatraz” or even foreign prisons known for torture.
The position on Republican women is slightly hidden, but is not less retrograde. The allegations of how Trump was included in Epstein files, the rapid and ruthless erosion of reproductive rights, or the allegations by the extreme right podcaster Charlie Kirk, should be rejected to say that women have to take a “lady” like the only reason for going to university, and the republicans were not a part of the packages of equality.
Although Trump’s approval ratings were gathered on immigration, he won more than half of the popular votes last autumn. So this is either many Americans who agree with him, or at least not disturbed by the ideas of pre -science rights about race and gender.
This reality, the beautiful, safe democratic white men in the oval office for their chances – the willing package of democratic white men – including our current California Governor – and the left begging the question: Is a woman worth risk?
“I definitely saw the consultants and heard and you know, even worried female donors say, ‘Maybe that means that we can’t manage a woman.’
He also thinks that the gender problem is “logical ,, because – although not by him -“ Donald Trump’s reason we lost twice in a row, isn’t it? Biden was able to beat him. ”
Although Timmaraju is clear that these losses cannot only be and do not depend on gender, the gender cannot be ignored when the margins are weak.
In 2016, Joseph Geevarghese, General Manager of Progressive Political Organization Group, which supported Bernie Sanders for the President, believes that gender and race are always a factor, but the greater problem for any candidate in 2028 will be platforms.
Harris said, “He did not lose because he was a woman. He lost because he did not embrace an economic populist message. And I think voters are angry with the living standards and angry at the elite who control and enrich themselves.” He said.
Greevarghese told me that he saw an opposite momentum building in the party and voters – the desire not to play it safely.
“Nobody – male, female, homosexual, flat, black, white, Asia – the candidate needs to criticize this moment and this cannot be a normal dem.”
Professor Brown rightly adds that a female candidate is very narrow to look at the problem of Just Harris’s chances of luck. There are many women to jump into the race. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer And Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Already two names in the mixture. Brown adds that a woman from the political dynasty (thinking about Obama) or Trump can also progress along the Trump lines.
Harris’s criticisms may not be another female candidate with voters, especially with voters, with the trunk of elections and criticisms about how to deal with the campaign and the media.
Vanessa Cardenas said, “I am optimistic that the American people will vote for a female president, whether they are running again or not,” Vanessa Cardenas said. He is the General Manager of Voice, a group of advocacy for immigrant rights.
Cardenas says Hillary Clinton has received more. 65 million votes (winning popular votes)And Harris exceeded 75 million. If only the Latins had gone to Harris, instead of making an ongoing right change, he would win. Cardenas thinks Latino votes It may change again in 2028.
“After chaos, persecution and inadequacy of the Trump Presidency, such as most Americans, Latin voters will reward the most authentic speaking and the most ready to fight for an alternative vision of America,” he said. “I believe that women and colorful women can talk about the need for change from the experience of reliability and forced communities.”
Timmaraju said that regardless of what Harris decided, the Democrats would probably have one of the most robust primaries recently – this can only be good for party and voters.
And “Can a woman win?” Better question, “Do we really want a system that doesn’t let them try it?”
