November 16, 2024

"Of course, Harris might make a third bid for the White House, though her loss to Trump after raising over $1 billion will weigh heavily on many Democrats’ minds."

"On the flip side, Harris was within a few swing-state percentage points of the presidency after spending just over 100 days in the race and battling economic headwinds that have sunk parties in power around the world. Whether Harris is up to another campaign is a different question, a senior aide noted, and the answer will only come with time. 'We’re barely a week after the election,' the person said."

From "Democratic jockeying for the 2028 presidential election is already underway/Nearly two dozen Democrats are seen as possible contenders ahead of an invisible primary that will be shaped partly by Trump and his second term" (NBC News).

From this, I will avert my eyes.

72 comments:

Dave Begley said...

Lunacy.

Mark said...

Of course, she'll have to win an open primary next time. Something she's proven unable to do so far.

AndrewV said...

So we'll see Kamala drop out in December 2027 when she polls around 2%.

Breezy said...

I highly doubt she'd get significant donor support for another run.

Eva Marie said...

Wait a minute. I thought a Trump win means dictator for life and no more elections. You mean I have to do this voting thing again in 4 years? Democrats never keep their promises.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

“I will avert my eyes.”

Like rubberneckers will let you.

Iman said...

Heh… reality ain’t what it seems in their opium dreams…

Interested Bystander said...

It's too soon. I'm still bathing in schadenfreude on a daily basis. Let's all agree to wait until 2026 for the next round of presidential politics.

bgates said...

battling economic headwinds ooh, good point. She won't have to worry about that after four years of a Trump economy.

Achilles said...

The next election will likely require voter ID and updated voter rolls.

Our new DOJ is also going to be taking a better look at some places in Maricopa County and Milwaukee and Philidelphia.

Have fun in the political wilderness Democrats.

Achilles said...

The requirement that all voting machines have open source code will be lit.

Original Mike said...

"The next election will likely require voter ID and updated voter rolls."

You're dreaming. Nothing like that will get past the Senate filibuster.

Original Mike said...

As others have noted elsewhere, didn't she blow two billion dollars?

Yancey Ward said...

Why are any Democrats planning a run- I thought Trump was going to be Dictator For Life?

Yancey Ward said...

Sigh.....I see Eva Marie beat me to it.

Yancey Ward said...

Harris is politically dead for national office. She might be able to replace Newsom in California but even that is not probable. She is a terrible candidate for any office that requires voters.

Shoeless Joe said...

Kamala Harris was likely the worst presidential candidate in our nation's history. Under normal circumstances she'd now be the punchline to every political joke for the next decade, and an outcast from the world of politics. But for most Dems Harris is immune from the normal criticisms for the same reason she was their candidate in the first place -- her gender and skin color. So long as she wears that armor a significant portion of Democrats will see her as a viable candidate no matter how much of an empty suite she actually is. The left's inability to look past race and gender will continue to be their downfall.

Leland said...

Heh, "an invisible primary", just like that last one. No need to avert your eyes.

minnesota farm guy said...

If Harris runs she will, once again, not make it past Iowa.

Another old lawyer said...

For the win.

JRoberts said...

Harris running again reminds me of a guy in college who told me he'd be interested in dating a certain girl - if he could "put a bag over her personality"

Maynard said...

Harris-Walz was the absolutely worst ticket the Dems could have produced. It's not just that they were dumb leftists. They are dumb leftists too cowardly to assert and defend their positions.

Even Dems who voted for these idiots know that to be true.

Rusty said...

This.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Do’h!

loudogblog said...

"On the flip side, Harris was within a few swing-state percentage points of the presidency after spending just over 100 days in the race and battling economic headwinds that have sunk parties in power around the world."

See. So many of them are in total denial of why they lost. "Economic headwinds?" The Harris campaign raised over a billion dollars!

Rusty said...

How bad do you have to be when the president doesn't vote for you. If there is a national voter ID law in 2028 then the democrats are going to have a hard time fielding anybody. Right now if their lives depended on presenting their issues honestly thay'd all be dead.

Dixcus said...

It's so funny that they think there's going to be any more elections.

They don't even listen to their own statements.

Democrats: Democracy has ended. We are not having any more elections. The President of the United States TOLD YOU this would happen.

We voted on this.

This is a Dictatorship now.

Original Mike said...

Wait! I thought she won Iowa?

Dixcus said...

They gave her $1 billion.

And somehow she spent $1.2 billion.

So now, they have to raise $200 million to give to the LOSER. That's gonna leave a mark.

Saint Croix said...

I think AOC will run and I think she'll surprise people, get some stadium crowds and real energy from voters. She reminds me of Palin and Trump, somebody with strong charisma who makes emotional connections with people. She has a lot of haters which just adds to her popularity.

Shapiro-AOC
Newsom-AOC

And she might be at the top of the ticket.

She will do Joe Rogan, no problem. She's Bernie with boobs. She's already thrown all the trans babies out of the bus. "You know my pronouns!"

Jerry said...

Either way, one hell of a lot with nothing to show for it.

I wouldn't be surprised if they sidelined her hard, to the point where she can't even get DNC funding for another attempt.

Dixcus said...

Democracy ended on November 5. The President of the United States TOLD everyone that this was on the ballot. We all voted and had a chance to choose how we want our country to operate.

There will be no more elections.

Dixcus said...

He is.

Wa St Blogger said...

Harris was within a few swing-state percentage points of the presidency...

While running against literally Hitler with all the benefits of the race and gender card and a press that would do to her with she did to Willie Brown if she had the equipment.

I don't see her surviving the primaries, but there will be much in-fighting as people blame the (Democrat) voters for not embracing a bipoc candidate.

Dixcus said...

There's no guy she can have sex with that will give her the California governorship. So I'm not sure how you think she's going to do that.

Saint Croix said...

I don't think the Satanic Dorito lady from Michigan gets out of Iowa. She made Kamala look like a genius.

Gretchen Be Fetchin'

Gretch! What a catch!

Vote Gretch, not Wretch

I can't help her. She's toast with marshmallow jam.

Saint Croix said...

I think the answer to any Kamala questions is...

"Kamala Who?"

Dixcus said...

Don't be mesmerized by them big 'ole Socialist titties.

Saint Croix said...

If you lose to Hitler you go down in history as a stinker.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

This is correct. She was a shitty candidate that, through their own preening foolishness, the Democrats were forced to put forward.
She has less political viability than Hillary Clinton.

Saint Croix said...

"She Can Win Now That Hitler's Out of the Race."

JIM said...

Kamala Harris and Katie Porter are leading the scrum to be Governor of California. Two hardcore leftists. Both masters of word salad speak, both hard to listen to for much longer than a minute. That's what I get to look forward to, after ages of the petty little tyrant, Gavin Newsom.

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

Now that’s the thread winner! Y’all are on fire.

Saint Croix said...

If Donald Trump really did play 3-D chess...

he's arrest her and send the FBI to raid her house

and prosecute her with 69 felonies

and the Democrats would be all, "We have to nominate her, this is so unfair!"

and then they would get the word salads again.

Curious George said...

The reference is to the shit American economy that Bidenomics created, and Harris blessed.

Saint Croix said...

Kamala campaigns in a prison jumpsuit.

"What can be, unburdened by what has been!"

That's why we shouldn't play 3-D chess.

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

Since everything on the globalist left is rigged - good luck with that.
Spin the puppet!

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

Is Dixcus a fed - or simply stupid. Vote often.

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

Who grovels to the puppet master - there's your winner.

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

Never underestimate the power of the puppet master.

Eric said...

This is the correct prediction.

n.n said...

Jockeying through gerrymandering the votes and an invisible democracy that dies at the Democratic twilight fringe. This is a thinly veiled shout-out to human rites activists, right? Walz'N Karma-la.

Democrats Love Waste Fraud Abuse/ Rachel Maddow = Lying Psycho said...

She's a smooth operator - but a phony.

Lazarus said...

Harris is done with politics. It sounds like she has no more money left in her campaign funds and little chance of raising enough for another run. It was fun while it lasted, but she's over.

If past experience is relevant, AOC will be the new Bernie Sanders, supported by large elements of the Democrat base but feared by the party's leaders and donors. Or has the Democratic Party caught up with her?

Democrats are ready for another Carter or Clinton or Obama -- an obscure figure who captivates the national media and is pushed by the media to become the nominee and the new John F. Kennedy. Maybe it will be Wes Moore, governor of Maryland. Maybe it will be somebody else. Democrats are looking for someone who can be more of a pretty boy or girl than Gavin Newsom. It could be Josh Shapiro, but is the country ready for someone who used to work at the Israeli embassy in DC?

Steve said...

Have the Democrats re-nominated a loser in the presidential election -- not the primary, the general election -- since Adlai Stevenson? Don't hold your breath.

Saint Croix said...

That's like saying, "She's a smooth operator - but a Democrat."

Skeptical Voter said...

Any future bid by Kamala Harris to run for President will be met with laughter. Which, considering her Kackler reputation, would be appropriate.

Skeptical Voter said...

You mean kamala is going to have to live on Doug's income?

David53 said...

We can hope!

Readering said...

Carter was not pushed by the media. Clinton was not obscure.

robother said...

She coulda been a contender!

Readering said...

She can get elected again to statewide office. Whether she wants to another story. Her original plan was to aim for accepting baton from Biden in '28.

Mary Beth said...

Well, Vance has been photographed in shorts, an obvious disqualification for him to run for president. Now she'll only have to be better than all of the other Democrats.

gilbar said...

y'all Really think that she'd last THAT Long?

Tofu King said...

Zero chance.

Bob Boyd said...

"On the flip side, Harris was within a few swing-state percentage points of the presidency"

Translation: Dammit, we could have easily stolen this election. Next time will know better than to chicken out.

boatbuilder said...

From this, I will avert my eyes.

Perfect.

Clyde said...

“I’d be very glad to be Josh Shapiro. But four years is a freaking eternity,” this person added. “I mean, my God, the 106 days we just lived through felt like an eternity.”

Wait until the 1461 days of Trump 2:0! Eternity squared!

gilbar said...

You're dreaming. Nothing like that will get past the Senate filibuster.

Assuming, that the Republicans* don't eliminate the filibuster.
Want to hear The Loudest Wailing in The World? Imagine the wailing from the Democrat Party and the MSM if the Republicans* eliminate the filibuster

Republicans* don't worry Democrats; the Republicans are TOO STUPID to think

boatbuilder said...

So they are floating this so that she can raise enough to pay off the other $200 mil, then she goes away. Makes more sense than her actually running again.

Tina Trent said...

Just say the words President Newsom and President Pritzger. Without laughing.

Mikey NTH said...

What I recall from her 2020 run was the article where she visited sorority friends and the "squeeee-weeee" cry or whatever it was and how important that was. And I was thinking "Could they tongue-bathe her any more?" Well this year they did. And it still wasn't enough.