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.
99 Comments
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 71 pts · 306d
And the DNC will prop her up as their preferred candidate and play confused when they lose again
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip · 20 pts · 306d
I’m skeptical that Harris is the front runner the DNC pushes, they might but I believe we could see a split over Harris, Walz, or Newsome as the front runner in 2028.
Someone like AOC could throw their hat in the ring, which could work but they would have to do hardball quite a lot to get any progressive legislation passed federally. The courts would be trying to check the EO power and be much more limiting than they are currently.
Bgugi@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 306d
No, they'll probably push Hillary again.
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 306d
I hate how accurate that sounds. I really hope not, otherwise the Democratic Party really will have learned nothing in over a decade.
pjwestin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 305d
I doubt the DNC wants her. The Biden folks were trying to scare people into backing him by threatening them with the possibility of a Kamala candidacy, since she was seen as such a trash candidate. Newsom is probably the preferred candidate; he makes a good show of fighting Trump, but doesn't do any crazy leftist stuff like treating homeless or trans people as human beings. That's what the DNC wants.
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
Newsome takes aipac money. He just passed a anti semeticisn bill.
His trump trolling is entertaining. But He should not be president.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -7 pts · 306d
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 306d
I mean you already worked your darndest to throw one election to the Republicans, why shouldn't we expect you to do a second.
The "Centrist" is the least reliable voter in Democratic tent and we lose elections thinking these toxic POS are able to be relied on
Go full populist, go full progressive, you'll win. Cater to the Blu MAGA contingent again, you'll lose.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -13 pts · 306d
Actually I want a Mamdani-type candidate to run for president someone who isn’t afraid to really lie and make promises they know they’ll never be able to keep so they can get votes.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 306d
Not one should be concerned with what the spoiler class of the DNC wants
Maeve@kbin.earth · 8 pts · 306d
Or people can actually get to work building a vanguard party.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · -5 pts · 306d
Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 306d
Are you?
AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 306d
Maeve@kbin.earth · 6 pts · 306d
I feel temporarily stymied at building that party, even beginning to build it in my area; but I haven't lost hope for it and am actively exploring avenues in that general direction.
just_another_person@lemmy.world · 65 pts · 306d
Love you, but fuck off, ma'am. Not needed, and it's only for your own ego at this point.
jimmy90@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 305d
the war's over so the far left and right will struggle to pin that on anyone. minorities have woken up from their nightmare dream of trump and everyone sees trump for the fascist he is
so whether its kamala, gavin or alex it should be a shoo-in for the dems this time around
will see at the midterms i guess
nieminen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 305d
Trump is invading Venezuela so we can be at war for the midterms, so they likely won't happen
cycadophyta@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 306d
Fuck you Kamala. Fuck you DNC. We only want AOC or similar.
newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 306d
And she'll try to cater to the centrist voter just like last time, and lose just like last time too.
"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact same thing over and over again, expecting to change" ~ Vaas Montenegro
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 306d
C’mon don’t censor out him swearing! It’s integral to Vaas’ character!
Uncensored version:
“Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change... That. Is. Crazy.”
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 306d
She ignored the centrist voter and went straight to moderate/Bush Republicans
frostedtrailblazer@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 306d
She tried to play towards too many people all at once really. Trump wasn’t committing to anything as he was posturing that he could be either way on an issue, and I think Harris was trying a more toned down version of that. Her bet was that swing state voters were more center or right leaning, but really she almost cemented them being that way with her middle ground approach.
Her actual policy positions were reasonable and passable on their own, but she didn’t bake any risk into her platform. She didn’t try to promise more progressive legislation, which almost assuredly would have helped her and the other Democratic Senators/House members to win their elections.
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 306d
Exactly. I fully agree.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 306d
"centrist" is so far right the word has no meaning.
cattywampas@midwest.social · 7 pts · 306d
She won't make it out of the primaries.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 306d
She didn't even poll well in her home state of California last time she tried to win, she won't poll well. Remember how she clapped back at Biden's racist polices and said it personally affected her as a child?
Remember how said she it was a debate and was willing to look the other way when he picked her as VP?Auli@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 305d
Sonos everyone asking for the Epstein files release insane?
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 32 pts · 306d
Nothing against her, and by all means, I hope she does throw her hat in the ring, along with a whole slew of other candidates, but I hope she gets Mamdani’d. I hope AOC throws her hat in and we have a real debate about the direction of the party.
Moreover, what a time we are in where two potential candidates for president could be women? Broader forces excluded, that seems like quite a revolutionary time to be alive.
Quexotic@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 306d
Yep. I think you're right. The next presidential election will certainly be revolutionary.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 305d
With First-past-the-post voting? LoL
daannii@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
AOC and Crockett. Though I'm pretty sure Crockett has her sights set on governor. ??
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 1 pts · 306d
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 4 pts · 306d
Mamdani is the action verb as he’s the one outfoxing Cuomo.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 306d
Please don’t
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 306d
Hayduke@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 306d
No thanks and no thanks. The best message she had was basically “well, I’m not trump” and air-balled. With the little runway she was afforded, I cared less about her life story, breakout republican alignment and Walz and Vance getting chummy, and more about tackling the very real pressing issues every day people face. The message that she won’t do what trump is likely to do was just a low bar and already understood, or at least implied, and whatever else she had was nebulous and same-old.
I didn’t dislike her, and she would have probably been fine, but she struck me as a B-tier candidate on the best of days.
1orangecat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 305d
What a horrible idea of sabotage. If she runs again, I believe it will be similar to when the DNC picked Hillary over Bernie for the primaries all over again.
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 304d
I honestly believe the DNC doesn't want to win.
skeezix@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
they didnt want Bernie to win. Because they love their lobby money too.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 305d
If this is true, there is a DNC conspiracy to keep Trump as POTUS until he dies.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 306d
Guys, the game is over. Stop acting like there will be a normal election. It is too late to fix the system. America as you know it is over. The future is dictatorship or revolution/war
wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io · 7 pts · 306d
Your opinion is noted, Russia.
shiroininja@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 306d
Hell no
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 306d
Muthafuggas think there's gonna be an election... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 😐
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 306d
If she even comes close to trying again she's gonna get ratiod so hard.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 306d
I mean, she was a very successful weak opposition. Remember that politics is a business and they got paid like a billion dollars last time.
0ndead@infosec.pub · 17 pts · 305d
Girl, no
MisterOwl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
Hell no.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · -12 pts · 304d
You Americans really love trump
0ndead@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 304d
We hate Trump, but she lost to him once already and she should not run again.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 304d
If that’s the case why do you guys keep wanting Bernie? He couldn’t even win the party nomination
0ndead@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 304d
I didn’t say a damn thing about Bernie. Try again.
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
You
<insertCountryHere>s really love to reduce 330+ million citizens with backgrounds from almost every corner of the planet to having one homogeneous political opinion.But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 304d
Even after a year of trump and you guys still think Kamala is worse. You deserve everything you get.
Im just an indigenous guy enjoying the self destruction of your racist, terrorist nation, sorry if I’m excited about it 🤷♂️ You guys don’t get to play the victim of your own stupidity
Edit: colonizers mad i called them out for their garbage society
SippyCup@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 304d
We know Kamala is better.
We also know we can do better than Kamala, and that's Kamala can't win. Kamala spent her entire campaign courting right wing voters. She's more conservative than Bush Sr was.
Eating a pile of horse shit looks great when you're eating a pile of regurgitated horse shit.
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 304d
Do you honestly believe I voted for Trump, and not Kamala? C'mon dude.
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 303d
"Colonizers"?
Dude, my blood is from Gujarat, India. I was born in Chicago in the early eighties. I now live in the EU. Am I a "colonizer"?
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 303d
No, you’re simping for the colonizers
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 303d
"Simping"?!
How? You can't be serious.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 306d
Fuck off Kamala.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 306d
Are we cooked, chat?
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 305d
100 fr fr
discosnails@lemmy.wtf · 13 pts · 305d
God damn it.
Cornpop@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 305d
Oh my fucking god please don’t
devolution@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 306d
Don't.
NeilBru@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 304d
You're done.
I pinched my nose and voted for you. I pinched my nose and voted for Biden. I pinched my nose (really hard) and voted for Hillary, after I gleefully voted for Bernie in the Primaries.
I know I'm not alone.
I've had enough.
You're done.
handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 306d
Never underestimate the opposition party’s thirst for defeat.
ClassStruggle@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 306d
For fucks sake. I wonder who they will blame when they lose again, because it's never their ineptitude. At least this time it won't be to a carnival barker. It will be something worse than trump
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 306d
It’ll be the “non-voters” again. It can’t possibly be their own fault or the fault of tens of millions of shitheel racist MAGAs.
Never learn. Rinse, wash, repeat.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 306d
Brown and trans people like last time. And then also admit they were cheated but still blame the average citizen, while refusing to push for a certification.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 0 pts · 305d
Pretty sure brown and trans people weren't the ones voting the nazi into power.
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 305d
They literally tried to blame all Latino voters for Trump, and threw trans people under the bus when running. So as far as the runners of the candidate is considers, they don't need to support them. Like Trump.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 306d
WTAF. I mean, if she were to win the primary, I guess most people would be: "eh, okay, I guess I'll vote for her because there is no really any other option", but is there anyone that is truly hyped about the idea of her running?
Krauerking@lemy.lol · 10 pts · 304d
Is this even a useful conversation at this time or just a willing distraction?
ButtermilkBiscuit@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 304d
I think it might be a pretty short conversation if she has to run in a real primary.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 306d
I toldja she's taking up Hillary's can't put a sock in it for 40 years mantle.
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 304d
For love of democracy, DONT!
iridebikes@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 306d
Please be done. If you wanted to be a leader, now is the time. Not three years from now.
blackbearjesus27@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 306d
I mean the interview may be her way of announcing that.
She should have taken some time to recalibrate and push forward and I will give her a shot to differentiate herself from Biden in a way she didn’t before. I don’t think she’s the right way AT ALL for what we truly need but I’m NOT going to be so close sided in my beliefs that they can’t be swayed. At that point, we’d just be the other side of the shitty coin the current admin+supporters are on.
iridebikes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
I'm willing to let her change my mind about her. For sure. But ... It seems that what the left wants is more like Bernie and more like AOC. Active participants even if they aren't in power. Advocates for the right thing and holding truth to power.
blackbearjesus27@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
Completely agreed and it’s what I want too.
Auli@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 305d
But the Democrats don't want them.
AshMan85@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 306d
Time for more parties
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 305d
Do you have a license to be so incredibly based?
AshMan85@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
Do you have a license to be an "edgy" troll? Lol
Xenny@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 306d
Please no for the love of God I'd rather you run Biden again
bagsy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 306d
No. we dont want you. you conceeded when you knew you had won. you arent fighting or leading now. you are not what we need or want.
Redditsux@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 306d
Just no. thank you!
JHRD1880@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 306d
Do people on here not know how primaries work ? She's not the candidate for President...
If she throws her hat in the ring she likely won't get the nomination but there's no problem with her trying.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 305d
Primary? Kamala and the DNC doesn't do primaries.
dmtalon@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 306d
Is she going to stay in the background not in headlines expressing her views of what's happening now, until a few months before the election and repeat the last run?
I personally think Democrats can do better, but whoever that is needs to be getting and keeping their name out there leading the charge.
NorthoftheBorder@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 305d
What a disaster that would be.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 5 pts · 305d
If there's anything left, you mean.
Maybe when the northern states merge together to form a union after the war.
beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 306d
Oh fuch! C'mon man! We want anything else than Orange leader, but not repeats. I'm tired of repeats. The law should say "no repeats".
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
No tagbacks!
Soktopraegaeawayok@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
Oh, she's done.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
So she has not learned that some key issues she stupidly defended made her lose against a demented idiot?
Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 305d
I was assured by Lemmy that not only she was done, but she stopped existing all together and couldn’t do anything about anything anymore
Kalon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
frankiehollywood@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 306d
lol….we love u Quemala
Dogiedog64@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
Chat, is she washed???
FosterMolasses@leminal.space · 4 pts · 305d
brain rot
BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
I voted for Hillary in '16, I voted for Kamala in '24. This is not the time to run another female candidate. I'm not convinced we'll ever have a legitimate election again, but we need someone who fits the mold better. Given the choice, I would vote for Newsom before I voted for Kamala again.
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 306d
Fun!