‘I am not done’: Kamala Harris says she may run for president again | Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris says she’s not done with politics and strongly suggests she’s considering another presidential run in a new interview.
In an interview scheduled to be published Sunday morning on BBCHarris said she would “probably” be the next president, making the clearest suggestion yet that she would run for the White House again in 2028 despite trailing far behind in the polls.
Harris emphasized that she has not made a decision yet, but that she is sure that a woman will eventually come to the White House and that her political career is not over.
“I’m not done yet,” the former vice-president told the BBC. “I’ve lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones.”
Harris has rejected polls that portray her as an outsider who could be on the Democratic ticket; he currently ranks behind even Hollywood actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
“If I had listened to the polls, I wouldn’t be running for my first or second term, and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here,” he said.
In the interview held on Sunday with Laura KuenssbergHarris, Britain’s most important weekend political show, says her warnings during the campaign that Donald Trump was behaving like a fascist and authoritarian have been proven true. He accused his former rival of being a “thin-skinned” “tyrant” who had weaponized the justice system.
Harris noted ABC’s removal of late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel from the air after he joked about Republicans’ response to the killing of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk. Kimmel’s firing was celebrated by Trump and came after the Trump-appointed regulator threatened ABC.
“He said he was going to weaponize the Justice Department, and he did just that… His skin is so thin that he couldn’t stand the criticism from the joke and tried to shut down an entire media outlet in the process,” he said.
Harris also harshly criticized business leaders and institutions in the United States, whom she accused of giving in to Trump’s tyrannical demands: “There are a lot of people who have surrendered since day one, who have knelt before a tyrant, I believe, for many reasons, they want to be in power, maybe because they want to get a merger approved or to avoid an investigation.”
Responding to the BBC, a White House spokesman said: “When Kamala Harris lost the election by a landslide, she should have gotten the hint: the American people don’t care about her ridiculous lies.”
On an international book tour promoting 107 Days, Harris has been chronicling her shortened 2024 presidential run, which began after Biden withdrew from the race following months of speculation about his cognitive decline.
He blames the unprecedentedly short campaign for his election loss, but questions about his communication style, his authenticity and his failure to connect with working-class voters remain unanswered. Harris, and the Democratic Party more broadly, have failed to fully acknowledge the role that Biden’s unchecked and uncritical support for what the UN describes as Israel’s “genocidal” war on Gaza has played in alienating voters.
