Kamala Harris tells BBC she may run for president again

[SouthBayDem]

Source: BBC

Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House.

In her first UK interview, Harris said she would "possibly" be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future.

Making her strongest suggestion to date that she will make another presidential bid in 2028 after losing to Donald Trump last year, Harris dismissed polls that put her as an outsider to become the Democrats' pick for the next election.

Speaking to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Harris also turned her fire on her former rival, branding Trump a "tyrant", and said warnings she made about him on the campaign trail had been proved right.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n7k2veywo

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This is a show for UK audiences unlike BBC World Service or World News programming. So I’m not sure if the full interview will be available outside the UK.

[xocetaceans]

1. Another campaign for the White House by former VP Harris would not end any better than this last election. It . . .

. . . would be a major mistake for her to run again. Former Sec Clinton might as well run again, if former VP Harris is taking this "possibly" as serious. Sec Clinton was ten times the candidate that VP Harris was. Either way, both would certainly suppress the voter turnout by a complete lack of enthusiasm for them, and both attempts would usher the next MAGA GOP monstrosity into the White House.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. Kamala would make an excellent President and could easily win if she runs...

Of course, it depends on who also runs... if it's AOC, she'll be the nominee without question.

[mdbl]

12. I don't agree. Unfortunately, I had to say that as I really like Harris.

However, what we really need is a big fucking bully that makes every repug look like the greedy fascist idiots they truly are. If you can find that candidate, let me know. If the nominee did turn out to be Harris of course I would support her but I fear it won't be enough. Should it come to pass, I'll happily proclaim myself full of shit.

[maliaSmith]

14. Kamala

She won't win the nomination; Gavin will and I'll support him.

[NH Ethylene]

17. Yes, she would be a good president.

But I don't see how we dare take a risk like that.

[CTyankee]

2. A lot depends on how effed up Trump makes this country. We got a while and he seems to be pissing off a new group

of people every day. There's a storm coming and tsf and JD are gonna be swept out of office on it. If Trump doesn't blow up the world I am sure he and JD will gone somehow after they piss off one group, and then the next, and the next, and so on. They're doing that nicely right now...

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. She may run, but she won't be the nominee again

The donors won’t back her, and it’s likely the donors and the current DNC power structure will insist on a straight white male (not named Shapiro or Newsom).

I hope to see a woman in the WH in my lifetime, but it won’t be Harris, and it won’t be in 2028.

[karin_sj]

4. I love her

And she would have made a fantastic president. But I don’t think she should run. There are too many racists and misogynists in the U.S. And, this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think she fought hard enough to make sure the election was legitimate. I’ll never believe he actually won all the swing states, plus there were all the bomb threats at the voting places, plus the fact he told his followers they’d never have to vote again, etc., etc., etc. We need an extreme fighter as our candidate next time because they are going to fight really dirty and do everything in their power (including cheat) to make sure they win.

[Ritabert]

5. No please. We need a Pritzker or Newsom

Or Mark Kelly or Andy Beshear.

[Bayard]

10. I like a Pritzker/Beshear ticket

[Ritabert]

11. Sounds good.

[mcar]

6. Good!

[multigraincracker]

8. I'd vote for her...again.

[NH Ethylene]

9. I like her. And of course I would vote for her in a general. But . . .

But the last thing we need is a black woman running again. Sad to say, we need a white male to be competitive, particularly now in this racist, sexist, divided country. He probably needs to be straight too, and seen as not TOO liberal.

As always I maintain hope that someday this will change. But right now we must get the White House back from the clutches of the extreme right and that is far more important than making an unsuccessful statement about our inclusiveness.

[CTyankee]

13. Well, it looks like another white male is on tap for electing our next President.

We have to wait and see, of course, but judging by the drift of things now it's gonna be Newsom. I am willing to bet he'll try for a woman VP since the Dem base has a lot of women (and getting more each time tsf and the other repukes try to limit women's rights even further).

[fujiyamasan]

15. She's not getting the nomination

She’s welcome to run though. It will be a wide open race.

[JI7]

16. I don't think she will actually end up running

It's too early to say no right now though becsuse you never know how things will be in the future.

[Prairie Gates]

18. Ooooof

God help us.

[JoseBalow]

19. How disappointing

I was hoping the comments would be more entertaining.

[Akakoji]

20. At least this time I believe she won't even make it out of the primary system

As much as I, as we all, would like to believe that men and certain groups will vote for a woman as President, they just will not. Harris is more than qualified. She's overqualified. But she is still a woman. A Black woman. It will not happen. Stupid, racist, sexism is hardwired into the brains of a huge number of Americans. Indeed, the world.

[CTyankee]

22. Yes. This is depressing, but you are right. I' sick at heart over it.

[electric_blue68]

21. I like her a whole lot, AND Too Much Racism & Sexism STILL Around for her sucess. Infuriating!

[Polybius]

23. I'll wait to see who's running before I make an endorsement

I hope it's Gavin though.