She lost….
Me?
America is NOT Ready for a woman President….
End of story….
Kamala Harris isn’t planning to go gentle into that good night. This week the former vice president made clear to potential 2028 rivals that she’s working to keep another White House campaign viable.
Why it matters: Despite worries from party leaders and donors that she can’t win, Harris remains at or near the top of most 2028 Democratic primary polls. She also has strong support among Black voters — the most critical voting bloc in most recent Democratic presidential primaries.
Driving the news: After lying low the first part of this year and then embarking on a 2024-focused book tour, Harris made several moves this week that many Democrats see as the beginnings of a 2028 campaign.
- Her book tour expanded. Harris announced many more stops on her tour to promote “107 Days,” her story of her short presidential campaign last year. Tour stops in early 2026 will include the historically critical primary state of South Carolina and cities with many Black voters, including Detroit, Jackson, Miss., Memphis, Tenn., and Montgomery, Ala.
- She appeared before the Democratic National Committee. Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, mingled with national party officials and state party chairs in Los Angeles this week during the DNC’s winter meeting.
- At a reception Wednesday evening, DNC chair Ken Martin introduced Emhoff as the former second gentleman and quipped that he could be the future first gentleman, people who heard the remarks told Axios.
Harris is rolling out new rhetoric.
- She railed against both parties and the status quo in a speech Friday to Democratic officials. Many in the room told Axios they were struck by how different Harris’ remarks were from her Biden-defending message on the campaign trail last year.
- “Both parties have failed to hold the public’s trust,” Harris said. “Government is viewed as fundamentally unable to meet the needs of its people…. People are done with the status quo and they’re ready to break things to force change.”
- “We cannot afford to be nostalgic for a flawed system that failed so many,” she added, arguing that President Trump is a “symptom” of a bigger problem….
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- By the numbers: Several early polls have shown Newsom as a top contender for the 2028 nomination, but Morning Consult has consistently found Harris leading.
- Morning Consult’s surveys also have shown Harris narrowly outperforming Newsom against Vice President Vance.
- But two recent polls of the traditionally important state of New Hampshire found Harris trailing Newsom and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Reality check: National polls of presidential primaries — especially more than two years out — make for good cocktail party debates, but not much else….
image…The New Yorker
Probably more often than not, when a field is open, the leading candidate in early polls does not lead in election year. Remember Colin Powell (who dropped out after the GOP lost the midterm election).
We’ll see…..
It’s a good process to develop a strong contender
I don’t think Harris will be the Democratic nominee in 08 nor for that matter a major contender.
If she runs?
An early exit
I AGEEE on Harris’s future
If she runs, and that is an if, she is a major contender for the nomination.
Besides for AOC, who likely is running for U.S. Senate, she is the most prominent woman who might run. It would still likely be a crowded field of others though.
A Secret That the DNC Must Never Reveal: Why They Lost the 2024 Elections
by Jim Geraghty, National Review
America has a lot of secrets: the nuclear launch codes, what’s going on at Area 51, Bigfoot, why the Denver International Airport seems so odd, whatever happened to D. B. Cooper, and exactly what evidence convinced several U.S. government agencies that the most likely cause of the Covid-19 pandemic was a lab leak.
And over at the Democratic National Committee, they’re locking up the biggest secret of all: why the Democrats lost the 2024 election.
In a move that should unleash harsh criticism and recriminations, the Democratic National Committee has decided against publicly releasing its long-awaited report on the 2024 election, which could end up protecting key actors inside the party from accountability over the blown but winnable contest.
The DNC has completed the report after extensive data analysis and hundreds of interviews in all 50 states. But according to a DNC official, the committee determined that releasing it would spark a media frenzy and retrospective finger-pointing that could divide the party and distract from its winning streak in recent elections.
“Here’s our North Star: does this help us win?” DNC Chair Ken Martin said in a statement given to The New Republic and a handful of other media outlets in advance of its wider release. “If the answer is no, it’s a distraction from the core mission.”
You see, the DNC spent a decent amount of time and money on a comprehensive review, and it has decided that the best way to apply the lessons from that review is to not let anyone ever see it. Apparently, the autopsy did not conclude that excessive secrecy at the highest levels of the Democratic Party was a problem.
You can just picture The X-Files’ Fox Mulder pounding on a locked door, shouting that the American public has a right to know the answer to this mystery. And then the Cigarette Smoking Man would appear, take a long drag, and gloat that Americans will never know why Democrats absolutely flopped on Election Day 2024.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/a-secret-that-the-dnc-must-never-reveal-why-they-lost-the-2024-elections/