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[Official] Harris in 2028

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Os Trigonum, Jul 15, 2025.

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    She won't get the nomination. No way. I don't know who will end up with it, but it won't be Ms. Harris.
     
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    Still would've been worlds better than a raping dipshit.
     
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    Kamala is the new hope
     
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    She received more votes than Obama. It will be hard to keep her off the ballot. She did that on short notice. With a full cycle, she has a chance to improve.
     
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    the Washington Post enters the conversation

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/31/kamala-harris-2028-presidential-race/

    The folly of Harris 2028
    After skipping the California governor’s race, she should make the same call on the presidency.
    By Matt Bai
    July 31, 2025 at 4:16 p.m. EDT

    Hours after Kamala Harris announced she would not run for governor of California, she posted a video hawking her forthcoming campaign memoir. The book is called “107 Days,” because I guess it’s a lot like that famous account of the Cuban missile crisis, only without the drama and the happy ending.

    (To be fair, it’s a much better title than, say, “Fighting for an American Dream That All of Us Can Achieve Together,” which I imagine was the second choice.)
    Harris made the right decision to skip the governor’s race, because she clearly wasn’t dying to do the job. She should make the same call on the presidency — even if that’s the job she wants.

    There’s plenty of goodwill for Harris among Democrats. She was thrust into a nearly impossible situation a year ago, and she acquitted herself better than a lot of people thought she would. She ran with evident joy and without a single memorable gaffe. She prosecuted her case against Donald Trump; the jury just found it lacking.

    So it’s natural that Harris, like most losing nominees, would contemplate taking another shot. When you’ve stood on arena stages and soaked in the adoration of tens of thousands, it’s hard not to believe you’re a rock star. When 75 million people have cast their vote for you, it’s reasonable to think they want you back (even if 70 million or so of those people would have voted for a tree fungus if they thought it could stop Trump).

    The theory behind Harris 2028 is that she would unify a large bloc of Democratic Party donors and activists and scare off a bunch of other potential candidates, making her the odds-on favorite in the primaries. Her star power and experience as a national candidate would convince Democrats that she stood a better chance of winning back the White House than a bunch of no-name governors and Cabinet secretaries.

    My advice to Harris is to call in whichever of her advisers are peddling this theory and fire them immediately, because they really should be doing something else.

    First of all, I’ve seen trick-or-treaters dressed up as avocados who are scarier than Harris would be as a primary candidate. She’s not going to winnow the field, simply because — unlike every other presidential nominee in modern times — she didn’t win the nomination in a competitive process the first time (unless you count a roll call of Democratic committee members on a Zoom call).

    The one time Harris actually ran in Democratic primaries, in 2020, she got five seconds of fame in a debate and raised a bunch of money, then immediately cratered and was among the first to exit the race. So if anyone imagines that a bunch of other self-regarding candidates are going to tap out the minute Harris announces, then Trump has a $400 sneaker he’d like to sell you.

    Second, in case you haven’t been paying attention, this is the absolute wrong moment in the Democratic Party — or anywhere, really — to be a Washington insider with institutional support. Voters aren’t looking for familiarity and expertise; they’re looking for novelty and a clean break with the past. If you sent Democratic voters a customer satisfaction survey, the party’s current leadership would land somewhere between CVS and speed cameras.

    And finally, it has to be said: Harris just isn’t very good at this. I don’t mean the orating and the debating and the endless rope lines. She’s not the best any of us have seen at any of that — but like I said, she campaigned adeptly in 2024, and it’s not the reason she lost.

    No, the main reason she lost, among many lesser ones that were outside her control, is that she really had nothing interesting to say — as evidenced by the fact that you can’t remember a single big governing idea from that campaign, and neither can I. She was, as a party leader wryly told me at the time, all about the vibes.

    This is why Harris flamed out so quickly in the 2020 race, and it’s why party leaders, in the run-up to 2024, were willing to rally behind an unpopular, deteriorating president rather than risk her getting the nomination. She is okay at running for things, but she has never demonstrated a ton of conviction about what comes after that. Harris is the Democratic version of Mitt Romney in 2012 or Jeb Bush in 2016: a candidate who can be whatever you want her to be, so long as she doesn’t have to make any hard choices about it.

    That’s never a particularly persuasive place for a candidate to be, but it’s even less so now, at a moment when Democratic voters are craving a positive vision for rebuilding the government rather than more recriminations over the Trumpist takeover. Which is why Harris should do herself and her party a favor and step away from the precipice of a campaign she would almost certainly regret.

    We had 107 perfectly adequate days together. Let’s not ruin it now.


     
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    She's so clueless - if the Democrats were smart, they would understand they cannot have everything on the far left that they want.. AOC Would be obliterated.

    going with Fetterman would be my biggest fear as a conservative Republican because while he is left on every principle, he is not woke/ not pro Hamas not a nutcase - I think he would have the best chance to win, but the Democrats don't know who they are right now... They don't even know what gender they are in some instances
     
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    she's only sixty years old. I'd say she's in charge until at least 2045
     
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    Maybe but you are still an online activist for a guy in the Epstein files who is actively getting Epsteins co groomer conspirator out of jail. So forgive me for feeling like your opinion about democrats… well… makes me want to do the opposite of what you say.

    If an online activist who supports pedophilia says I shouldn’t support a politician it makes me want to do the opposite and support them.
     

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