Former Vice President Kamala Harris, whose 2024 presidential campaign ended in one of the most sweeping Republican victories in decades, is signaling she’s ready to try again.
In a wide-ranging interview with the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Harris made her strongest suggestion yet that she’s preparing another presidential bid. Asked directly if she would consider running again, the former vice president answered simply, “possibly.”
“I am not done,” Harris said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones.”
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Harris’s remarks, made during her London book tour for 107 Days, were a mix of defiance and self-reinvention, an effort to reframe her stunning loss to Donald Trump as a temporary setback rather than a rejection. She dismissed polls showing her as a long shot for the Democratic nomination and brushed off questions about her political future.
“If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office, and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here,” Harris said, when asked about her low standing even behind celebrity names like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
Harris also used the BBC platform to renew attacks on Trump, calling him a “tyrant” and accusing him of “weaponising” the Department of Justice.
“He said he would weaponise the Department of Justice, and he has done exactly that,” she claimed. “There are many… who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant.”
But back home, data and history tell a much different story, one that makes Harris’s talk of a comeback sound increasingly detached from political reality.
According to a U.S. News & World Report postmortem, Harris underperformed Joe Biden’s 2020 results in every battleground state, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin, all of which flipped red in Trump’s favor.
“In all but North Carolina, 2020 victories for Biden turned into losses for Harris. And in North Carolina, Biden’s loss turned into an even bigger one for Harris four years later.”
Even in deep-blue states, the slide was dramatic.
“In New York, the Democratic margin had shrunk by some 1 million votes between 2020 and 2024. In Illinois, it was down by more than half a million. In Massachusetts, more than 375,000.”
Those numbers paint a grim picture for a politician now floating a 2028 comeback. Harris didn’t just lose swing voters; she hemorrhaged support across the entire Democratic base, underperforming her party’s Senate candidates and even lagging behind abortion-rights ballot measures in liberal states.
Her new rhetoric about “service” and “unfinished work” may sound inspirational in London, but the reality she faces at home is a Democratic Party still reeling from her loss and uncertain, unable to challenge President Trump effectively, and questioning whether she can lead them anywhere but backward.
As Legal Insurrection reported on election night:
“Donald Trump is the winner and has been reelected, with both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin being called for him pushing him over the 270 electoral votes needed… Trump is expected to win the popular vote as well.”
In other words, Kamala Harris isn’t just “not done.” She’s not learning.
For voters who remember 2024’s collapse, her insistence on another run might not read as resilience, but denial.
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