A Second Presidential Run?
The Governor of California?
Hmmmm?
The Sure Thing vs ANOTHER reach for the Star’s?
In South Carolina, influential Democrats this weekend were hardly talking about Kamala Harris anymore. In California, they greeted the thought of her political future with impatience and weary sighs.
The former vice president has kept campaign junkies guessing as she contemplates running for California governor or taking another shot at the White House in 2028. But party members on opposite coasts, who gathered for simultaneous confabs this weekend, did not express much clamor for either iteration of a Harris candidacy.
Some Democrats in South Carolina, girding for battle to retain their favored status on the presidential primary calendar, went so far as to suggest that a run for California governor could offer a graceful exit from the national stage.
“I think she should run for governor and be the best governor California has ever had,” said Amanda Loveday, a Democratic strategist and former executive director of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
And in her home state, some Democrats openly fretted that California was simply a fallback option for Harris after her presidential ambitions were thwarted last year.
“We haven’t really heard from her on California issues since Trump’s inauguration,” said Madison Zimmerman, a state party delegate from rural Shasta County. “I feel like California isn’t a consolation prize.”
The gatherings in Anaheim and Columbia were separated by nearly 2,500 miles but could both be enormously significant to Harris’ future — California as the state she may seek to govern and South Carolina as the early primary state that would loom large in any 2028 presidential campaign.
Harris, one of the Democratic Party’s best-known national figures after her whirlwind presidential run last year, remains a formidable figure in the party. She leads in polls for California governor and sits at or near the top of contenders in recent surveys of the nascent 2028 field. Even as she keeps a low-profile after her bruising loss to President Donald Trump, she has commanded attention for her sporadic speeches and cameos at cultural soirees like the Met Gala.
That star power far outshines the declared candidates for California governor, and Harris, should she get into the race, would immediately catapult to frontrunner status, given her stature and fundraising chops….
Note…
This dog hopes that Harris settles on the safe route to the California Governor Mansion…
America seems NOT Ready for Woman President…..
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