Can you feel the joy?
Folks, it’s official. Kamala Harris is beginning to contemplate what needs to be done in terms of recognizing the importance of understanding the steps she must take to seriously consider thinking about running for governor of California in 2026. This bombshell revelation was exclusively reported by Eugene Daniels, the Politico fashion icon and “Kamala Harris expert” who will soon join MSNBC as weekend show cohost. It was his “final scoop” for the Virginia-based news blog, which is located many, many floors below the Washington Free Beacon.
According to Daniels, the failed presidential candidate is getting “serious about considering” a run to succeed the term-limited incumbent, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D., Calif.), and has even “given herself a deadline” to decide by the “end of the summer.” Harris allegedly revealed her secret plan to start thinking about making a decision when it comes to her political future last weekend at a pre-Oscars party in Los Angeles. “Harris’ timeline, reported here first, is the clearest indication to date that she may enter the race,” Daniels wrote insightfully. The former vice president has been telling her allies she is “staying in this fight,” but has yet to formally begin the process of discussing a run for governor.
Harris has been urging Daniels and other friendly journalists to write articles about her “political comeback” since late November 2024, just weeks after her humiliating loss to Donald Trump. She is almost definitely running for office again, she just has to decide if it’s for governor or for president again in 2028 because she can’t realistically do both. If Harris is interested in winning, she’ll run for governor in California, a heavily Democratic state that most normal voters have already fled due to corruption and incompetence. Her chances of winning a presidential primary—even against a field of uninspiring candidates likely to include Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, and fat billionaire J.B. Pritzker—are basically zero.
Election experts have predicted that if Harris runs in California, she would easily win the governor’s race for the simple reason that most voters already know who she is. There probably aren’t many Democrats eager to challenge a former presidential candidate, but that doesn’t mean Harris is universally beloved in her home state. Joe Biden was reportedly “startled by the ferocity” of anti-Harris sentiment among California Democrats during the VP selection process in 2020. David Crane, a longtime party activist in the state, begged the Biden campaign to pick Karen Bass, then a Democratic congresswoman who now serves as mayor of Los Angeles, because “Karen cares about something greater than herself,” unlike Harris.
Can you feel the joy?