Governor Kamala Harris? Or maybe President Kamala Harris?
The vice president is reportedly “instructing advisers and allies to keep her options open” and that she doesn’t plan to step away from politics after her decisive defeat against Donald Trump, according to Politico.
“… 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,’” per the report.
Harris and the Democratic Party’s prodigious fundraising operation raised more than $1 billion in her loss to Trump, but the vice president is still pushing donors for more money after the election.
The scramble now underscores the expense involved in a losing effort and the immediate challenges facing Democrats as they try to maintain a baseline political operation to counter the Trump administration and prepare for the 2026 midterm elections. It also calls into question how Democrats used their resources, including hosting events with musicians and other celebrities as well as running ads in a variety of nontraditional spaces such as Las Vegas’ domed Sphere.
Harris has kept a low profile since the election loss.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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