Kamala Harris has said that she currently has no desire to re-enter “the system” of American politics because it is “broken”.
On Thursday night the Democratic party’s defeated presidential nominee, who replaced Joe Biden late in the 2024 campaign after he dropped his re-election bid, gave her first interview since losing the election to Donald Trump, talking to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show.
After she announced she will not run for the governorship of California just a day earlier, Harris told the TV show that it was about something more “basic” than whether she wanted to run for something else instead – with the subtext being whether she will attempt a White House run again in 2028.
I watched the interview and knew as soon as she said “broken” that was going to be the headline in all the articles.
For those who only read the headline, it’s a highly misleading one. The full quote is,
Recently I made the decision that I just – for now – I don’t want to go back in the system. I think it’s broken
And she later goes on to talk about touring the country and listening to people, specifically listening and talking without the implication of trying to get their vote (at that exact time).
Now hopefully she’s being truthful. If she wants to spend the next few years fixing up her image and actually improving her policies I’d be happy to have her back and trying the primaries.
I’d be happy to have her back and trying the primaries.
Would be hilarious watching her lose the primaries if the party allows them.
Wanted to be president, but not willing to fight to fix the country… interesting.
Democratic party needs a straight up rebuilding, trim the fat and get some real Patriots to establish honorable American values based on mutual respect.
She never was a leader and I am glad that she has stopped trying. Make room for someone capable at fulfilling it.
interesting Democratic party needs a straight up rebuilding,
Sounds like she agrees with you
What a superfluous quotes in the title!
Really curious how she can feel the system is broken, while doing absotuley nothing to ask for a recall to show how broken it is.
Like. You feel the system is broken and want to leave it? Cool. Maybe you could have publically pushed to show how broken it was when you had the power to do so?
Weren’t you the one running on a campaign to fix that brokeness? Was that just PR? Because it’s seems like Democrats are just speedruning what they do best: standing by and doing nothing as evil proliferates.
I’m glad she’s stepping down. But what a hypocritical way to do it. She should have gone out guns blazing, asking for a recount and pushing it to the Supreme court if necessary. We might have had a chance to avoid all this if she actually acted like the system was broken, instead of complaining about it now that she’s leaving it. Perfect opportunity to go out guns blazing, instead she’s on Colbert.
I swear every Democrat has a collapsible string where a spine should be.
When did she ever claim she intended to fix anything? She openly said she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently from Biden.
She openly said she couldn’t think of anything she’d do differently from Biden.
And followed it up by promising to appoint a republican to her cabinet.
As the candidate who lost the election, she’s literally the only person who had the power to issue a recount.
She failed in that responsibility. Despite the 2016 election interference, and Jan 6th. Trump has never had a fair election, and she chose to ignore that in favor of respect?
Please. Respect is earned. Not given. Especially when the protection of our democracy comes with it.
Any reasonable, spine-having American would have challenged the results immediately rather that talk about how broken shit got because they failed in their ultimate responsibility as an American.
Why would they call for a recount? There was no reason to believe the results were inaccurate. After the election, her own staff admitted it was all a grift, and their internal polling never once showed her polling ahead of Trump.
Single best decision she’s ever made.
I always wondered what the opposition politicians in Russia get out of it, given they can’t win and will be locked up or thrown out of a window if they actually speak out about anything. Guess Kamala does too.
She’s never polled well. Couldn’t even win a primary in her own state. This is like declining to attend a party you weren’t invited to where no one likes you.
Good point. Let’s do nothing.
More mamdanis, less harrisis
Kamala dropping out is a big step.
Agreed, that way the Ds can’t run her again. Because they absolutely would.
It seems Democrats are finally coming to terms with the fact that they need to appeal to people if they want to win their votes.
Or more accurately, make people believe like they care. Because they are still working against Mamdani and other progressives in full force.
Not gonna lie, you had me on the first part. I was going to ask for a source based on exactly what you mentioned in the second. They only want to give the illusion of listening to the working class, so they can maintain the status quo.
It seems Democrats are finally coming to terms with the fact that they need to appeal to people if they want to win their votes.
They did over 6 months ago when they stopped electing neoliberals for DNC chair, and elected the head of Minnesota’s Working Families Party to DNC chair…
Because they are still working against Mamdani and other progressives in full force.
A new DNC chair who is excited about Mamdani, and wants to take his strategy because that’s what Dem voters want:
Well, first, it was a brilliant campaign. And there’s a lot of lessons.
One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.
And that’s really critical. And I think that’s one of the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.
I think that’s one of the lessons. The other lessons, of course, is the tactics he used to get his message out, both a very aggressive in-person campaigning, meeting voters where they’re at, and then also in those digital spaces, using very creative messaging to cut through the noise and to get to voters in an inexpensive but authentic way.
There’s a lot to learn from that campaign, and I’m excited to learn more.
He’s been chair for the ouster of David Hogg and the shameful behavior of the party he chairs toward Mamdani.
He’s not the savior you’re touting him as.
Notably absent from the DNC chair’s comments are two big things Mamdani didn’t do, which centrist Democrats are doing in spades. Namely, throwing both Palestinians and trans folks under the bus. Mamdani showed that you don’t win power by betraying vulnerable minority groups. The DNC has to still learn that lesson.
Pass
So…
Two days after 10/7 he said a slogan was problematic because it could be interpreted as a call for genocide…
And then on Thanksgiving he thanked Biden for working on expanding aid to Gaza and facilitating release of prisoners? (Which reads like a bit of a jab towards Biden honestly)
I dont understand the single word you put with that
Did you mean “pass” as he “passes” your standards?
Or you think those two tweets from 2 years ago mean you won’t support the Dem party?
Because if so, Im really curious who you support. For pretty much any position anywhere.
Weird how he attacked Democratic Socialists of America while doing that.
Mamdani is a member of DSA by the way.
Almost like they barely try so they can benefit from Trumps tax breaks.
I like when she was told of voting discrepancies but chose to ignore it and go home instead
As much as I could care less for her, I do get it. It’s gotta be pretty hard knowing how much you’re hated by a lot of people, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
It’s gotta be pretty hard knowing how much you’re hated by a lot of people, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Oh, there was plenty she could have done about it. She chose to keep supporting the bidenyahu genocide.
As much as I could care less for her
I could care so so much more about Kamala…
But I don’t see any reason to.
hated by a lot of people, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
She could absolutely do something about it.
She could retire and drop out of the public eye. That’s it, same thing Hillary could have done a decade ago.
If they every stopped writing books, giving interviews, going on TV, and all the other bullshit; the vast majority of Americans would just forget about them in a year or two.
They just can’t do that, they can’t stay out of the public eye.
Could not stand her nassaly voice.
