Following the 2024 presidential election, considered one of the most severe defeats in the nation’s history, the unsuccessful candidate Kamala Harris is contemplating strategies for a potential comeback.
It is worth acknowledging that her loss was superseded by one of the most remarkable political resurgences in American politics: Trump II, The Return of Trump, a chapter that will be closely studied and dissected for years to come. So, what lies ahead for Kamala Harris?
Turns out she does have a couple of possibilities.
Key advisors and associates of Kamala Harris are currently at odds regarding her next move, debating whether she should return to California to pursue the governorship in 2026 — a decision heavily reliant on their assessment of her prospects in securing the Democratic nomination for the highly anticipated 2028 primary.
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.
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 Anatidae arranged 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.
