Kamala Harris lost the 2024 presidential election by over 2 million votes and 86 electoral votes. She was installed as the Democratic nominee without winning a single primary. She ran on vibes, cackles, and a strategy that consisted primarily of not being Donald Trump. It didn’t work. The country chose Trump. Decisively.
And now she’s thinking about doing it again.
In an interview with podcaster Sharon McMahon, Harris was asked whether she would run for president in 2028. Her answer: she “hasn’t decided” yet. But she later confirmed she’s considering it.
McMahon’s response was telling. “I closed the book and I’m like, oh, she wants to. She’s just thinking about it.”
She wants to. Of course she does. The question isn’t whether Kamala Harris wants to run for president. The question is whether anyone in the Democratic Party wants her to. And the answer, based on every available piece of evidence, is a resounding, bipartisan, full-throated: please, God, no.
The Polling Problem
Harris is currently polling at 10% in New Hampshire — the state that traditionally holds the first primary. She’s in fourth place. Behind Pete Buttigieg, behind Gavin Newsom, behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and tied with Mark Kelly.
Fourth place. The woman who was the Democratic nominee fourteen months ago can’t crack double digits in the first primary state. She’s behind a transportation secretary who built eight EV charging stations, a governor who can’t keep the lights on in California, and a congresswoman who can’t find Venezuela on a map.
If the Democratic electorate were a jury, they’ve already delivered their verdict. They’ve moved on. They’re looking at other options — bad options, admittedly, but other options. Harris isn’t being rejected because the party has found someone better. She’s being rejected because even in a field this weak, she can’t generate enough enthusiasm to compete.
The 2024 Autopsy
Harris’s 2024 campaign was a case study in everything wrong with modern Democratic politics. She was handed the nomination when Biden was pushed out — not chosen by voters, not tested in debates, not vetted through the primary process. She was anointed because the party had no alternative and no time to find one.
She raised historic amounts of money. She had the full backing of the media establishment. She had celebrity endorsements, favorable coverage, and an opponent who had been convicted of felonies and was being called a fascist by half the country’s editorial boards. And she still lost.
She lost because voters couldn’t figure out what she stood for. She lost because her answers to policy questions were word salads indistinguishable from parody. She lost because “joy” isn’t a platform and “unburdened by what has been” isn’t a policy. She lost because when the country was choosing between a man who talked too much and a woman who said nothing, they chose the man who talked too much.
Running again means running on that record. It means relitigating every failure, every gaffe, every “I’m speaking” moment that voters already weighed and rejected. It means asking the country to give her a second chance at a job they already decided she wasn’t qualified for.
The “Gen-Z Content Hub”
Harris’s post-2024 political activity tells you everything about the seriousness of her operation. Her campaign’s X account — dormant for over a year after the loss — was recently rebranded as a “Gen-Z led progressive content hub.”
That’s her political operation in 2026. Not a policy shop. Not a think tank. Not a serious effort to rebuild credibility on the issues that cost her the election. A content hub. Run by Gen-Z. Posting progressive content. On a platform that her party’s base increasingly associates with Elon Musk and the right.
The rebranding was immediately mocked across the political spectrum. It has the energy of a Fortune 500 company hiring a 22-year-old social media manager and telling them to “make us go viral.” It’s not a campaign. It’s not even pre-campaign infrastructure. It’s a holding pattern disguised as activity.
“I Am Not Done”
Harris first teased a 2028 run in October 2025, telling the BBC: “I am not done.” She dismissed polls showing her trailing other Democratic leaders — Newsom, Pritzker, Buttigieg — as irrelevant.
“I am not done” is what politicians say when their careers are done and they haven’t accepted it yet. It’s the political equivalent of the boxer who won’t stay down — admirable in theory, painful to watch in practice. The crowd has moved on. The next fight is being scheduled. And the former contender is still circling the ring, insisting she has one more round in her.
The Democratic Party doesn’t owe Harris another shot. She was given the nomination without earning it, given every advantage the party could provide, and lost to a candidate the party had spent years trying to destroy. The experiment was run. The results are in.
The Gift That Keeps Giving
For Republicans, a Harris 2028 run is the gift that keeps giving. Every primary dollar she spends is a dollar not going to a stronger candidate. Every debate she enters is a debate where the other Democrats have to attack the last nominee instead of building their own case. Every headline about her candidacy is a reminder of 2024 — the last time Democrats asked America to trust their judgment, and America said no.
If Harris runs, she splits the Black vote with other candidates, divides the female vote, and forces the party to relitigate the most embarrassing chapter of its recent history during a primary that’s already shaping up to be a demolition derby.
Newsom is running a book tour nobody’s attending. Buttigieg is leading polls on a resume of failure. AOC is recovering from Munich. And now Harris is “considering” jumping back in — the candidate who already lost, asking the party that already moved on to give her another try.
Somewhere, Donald Trump is watching this unfold and smiling. Because the 2028 Democratic primary isn’t a contest. It’s a gift-wrapping station. And every candidate who enters makes the bow a little bigger.