It's hard for me to see Kamala Harris as anything but a spectacular failure. I know not not everyone sees her that way but I'm honestly not sure why. Was there one decent moment in her entire four years when she didn't cackle her way through a speech or go into some ramble about being unburdened by what has been.
I get that this was supposed to a deep line that would resonate with people around issues of American history and progress, but honestly every time she said it I get a kind of 2nd hand embarrassment on her behalf. I swear it's like watching a cover band struggle through a song they are supposed to have locked down. You know they're trying but sometimes the material just doesn't sing in the hands of an amateur performer.
But our short national nightmare is over, right. I mean there can't be many people looking for more of this. Can there?
📊 2028 National Democratic Primary
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) May 24, 2026
🟦 Kamala Harris: 34% (=)
🟦 Gavin Newsom: 12% (-8)
🟦 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 11% (+4)
🟦 Pete Buttigieg: 10%
🟦 Josh Shapiro: 9%
🟦 Mark Kelly: 9%
🟦 Andy Beshear: 4%
🟦 J.B. Pritzker: 2%
(+/- vs January)@Rasmussen_Poll | 5/18-20 | LV… pic.twitter.com/7pihDOJixt
That poll is a week old. Granted a lot of this is just name recognition at this point but wow!
As for Harris herself, she's clearly planning to run. She could have probably walked in the California Governor's mansion with very little effort but stayed out of that race to keep her 2028 options open. Vanity Fair had an article last week confirming this.
According to multiple sources close to the former vice president, she remains undecided but is strongly considering another run for the White House. “People around her are pushing her to run,” says a person who has spoken with Harris about 2028. “She seemed inclined to seriously entertain it.”
But the rest of the article isn't all favorable to the idea. On the contrary, I get the impression that, just like in 2024, there are lots of people inside the party who definitely don't want her to run and don't think it's a good idea for her to be the nominee, but they can't say that out loud, at least not using their names.
I spoke with more than two dozen Harris campaign staffers, former White House aides, elected officials, political operatives, and big-dollar donors for this piece. Aside from her own close advisers, none spoke enthusiastically about a Harris 2028 campaign. Many with careers in Democratic politics asked to remain anonymous. Some, after praising Harris on the record, asked to speak on background to give more candid opinions about her political future.
“No,” says one former Harris campaign adviser when asked if she should run. “It’s obviously a bad idea.”
“I have spoken to maybe one person out of a hundred who thinks she should run,” says another. “Whether it’s former campaign colleagues, people around DC, or just people around the country who are like, ‘Oh God, she’s not going to run again?’”
“No,” says Mark Cuban, the billionaire who served as a surrogate on her 2024 campaign.
“I don’t think she should run for president,” says a top Harris donor.
“I have been all over the country for these midterms and I’ve not encountered anybody— anybody—who said, ‘Boy, I really hope Kamala runs,’” says one veteran Democratic operative.
“Will she run? Most likely, yes. Should she? Absolutely not,” says a former White House aide. “There is no appetite for the former vice president to return to the campaign trail.”
“I can’t really name one person who is excited about the prospect of her running or thinks that it would wind up being a successful endeavor,” says a Democratic consultant.
Part of the problem is the one I mentioned above. She's just not good on camera. When she speaks, her supporters are hoping for a base hit at best and it's just as likely they'll get a strikeout.
In person, sources say, she's quick-witted and fun. But on-camera moments can be a different proposition. “She has no natural ability to show people who she is without some kind of obfuscation or evasiveness,” says the first White House aide. “Those are severe handicaps, and those are not behaviors that you learn as a candidate or a politician easily. That evasiveness is something that voters can detect and smell and it just means that they believe the candidate fears something. I think we’re over that.”
I argued back in 2024 that there was a clear reason Democrats stuck with Biden as the nominee despite his obvious aging. The main problem was the Harris was the only alternative. Anyone who spoke against Harris would be accused of racism. So they stuck with Biden until that became impossible.
And even now, no one wants to say she was a bad candidate. All they'll say is that the party should look forward. Here's Gov. Josh Shapiro bending over backwards to avoid criticizing Harris.
Jonathan Martin: "Do you think that your party should move on from 2024? Nominate somebody that wasn't on the ticket in 2024?"
— lindsay 🙈🏳️🌈 (@virtueemoir29) May 26, 2026
Shapiro: "Not to make it personal to anybody, I think what we need to do is look forward."
Martin: "But to be clear, you don't think Kamala Harris… pic.twitter.com/44KJgNSsKr
All that to say, Democrats, at least the insiders, seem to know this is a terrible idea but it might happen anyway. Brat summer 2.0 could be coming in about two years from now because no one wants to state the oblivious. Unfortunately for Harris and her party, other people don't have to look forward unburdened by what has been. On the contrary, we can remember what a terrible candidate she was and how the more people saw of her the less they liked her. That dynamic won't have changed in 2028.
Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) on Kamala Harris: "She's like avocados, the more you have, the less you want" pic.twitter.com/MlfdJyAf6B
— Varney & Co. (@Varneyco) May 27, 2026
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