Former Vice President Kamala Harris may run for president again, she said this weekend.
Harris, the nation’s first female, Black and Asian American vice president, mounted an unsuccessful bid for the office last year against Donald Trump, stepping into the race after President Joe Biden withdrew his candidacy just months before Election Day.
But in a BBC interview set to air Sunday, Harris hinted that she might seek the nation’s highest office again.
Harris told BBC presenter Laura Kuenssberg that she had not yet made a decision about running, but told the broadcaster she is “not done” with politics.
“I have lived my entire career as a life of service,” said Harris, who also served as U.S. senator, California attorney general and San Francisco district attorney. “It’s in my bones.”
“I look forward to getting back out and listening to the American people,” Harris, shown during an April visit to San Francisco, said over the summer when she announced she would not run for California governor. (Camille Cohen/Tribune News Service)
After being asked whether she could end up being the nation’s first female president, Harris replied “possibly,” hinting at a second run.
Questions have swirled about Harris’ political future ever since her unsuccessful race for president last year. Harris became the Democratic nominee 107 days before Election Day, after Biden’s withdrawal from the race amid concerns about his age, health and apparent cognitive decline.
Despite a whirlwind campaign, Harris was unable to lay out a clear or compelling platform to voters, and lost decisively.
This summer, Harris announced that she would not run for California governor, but left the door open for another White House bid in 2028.
“I look forward to getting back out and listening to the American people, helping elect Democrats across the nation who will fight fearlessly, and sharing more details in the months ahead about my own plans,” she said at the time.
In the BBC interview, Harris said she believes the United States will elect a female president in her grandnieces’ lifetimes and dismissed recent polls that show her well behind among potential Democratic nominees.
“There are all kinds of polls that will tell you a variety of things,” Harris said. “I’ve never listened to polls. If I’d listened to polls, I would not have run for my first office or my second office and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting in this interview.”
Harris, shown debating Donald Trump in September 2024, told BBC the president has run an authoritarian government. (Associated Press)
Harris also told the BBC that Trump has behaved as a fascist and is running an authoritarian government.
“He said he would weaponize the Department of Justice, and he has done exactly that,” said Harris, who appeared in San Francisco this month on a tour to promote her memoir, “107 Days.”
Harris also criticized businesses and other institutions for kowtowing to Trump’s demands.
“There are many … that have capitulated since day one,” she told the BBC, “who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant, I believe for many reasons, including they want to be next to power, because they want to perhaps have a merger approved or avoid an investigation.”
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