Article: "What’s next for Kamala Harris?" Not satire or parody

Interesting article. It's from the political journal The Hill (generally considered a centrist publication) and written by a young woman -graduated from the University of Oregon in 2020. I suppose she's correct in writing that Kamala Harris is likely to be the next governor of California. An excerpt below the link and more if you hit the link.

Early polling suggests Democrats want to see Harris back in the running for the Oval Office in 2028, despite her defeat this cycle. But some in the party speculate the vice president could seek another office — for starters, the governor’s mansion in California — or pursue avenues outside electoral politics to help bolster the resistance against a second Trump term.

“She still has a long career ahead of her,” said Democratic strategist Kate Maeder. “She’s young for politics in this country, and I think that folks are really excited to see what she does next, because she’s built such a powerful following around her, and I think that that will carry through after the election.”

Election Day was a bruising night for Democrats. Trump swept all of the swing states and made inroads in blue strongholds as most of the country shifted rightward, and the GOP secured both chambers of Congress to pave the way for a trifecta of power in Washington next year.

But in her speech conceding the 2024 race to her Republican rival, Harris stressed she will never give up on “the fight that fueled” her fast-tracked bid.

The outgoing vice president, 60, “still has a fight in her,” Maeder said. “Whether it’s around public policy or it’s fighting the good fight in the private sector, I think it’s left to be seen.”

Harris is among a small handful of vice presidents in recent history who tried for the presidency and lost, and each took different paths in the aftermath, noted Joel Goldstein, a professor emeritus at Saint Louis University’s law school and an expert on the vice presidency. Richard Nixon mounted an unsuccessful bid for California governor before his comeback White House win in 1968, and Hubert Humphrey returned to the Senate. Al Gore never ran for political office again, focusing on environmental activism and earning the Nobel Peace Prize.

Comments

[Valeria Kondratiev]

I think if Kamala Harris in smart, she won’t seek elected office anytime soon. She got zero support in the Democratic primary and became the Democratic nominee only because of Biden being ousted at the last minute. As a presidential candidate, I think most of the votes she got were votes against Trump rather than votes for her. In short, she didn’t really build a powerful following, as the article says, but merely got people to vote for her because they disliked her opponent. That doesn’t translate into real positive support or following and she probably would have lost even bigger if her opponent had not been so demonized by the media or been non controversial.

[tom faranda]

Well Kamala Harris is smart, but I think with the huge majority of Democrats in California it will be easy for her to get the governorship if she wants it.