Failed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has teased another run for the White House.
“I am not done,” the former vice president told the BBC in her strongest comments so far on her political plans. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it’s in my bones,” she told the British outlet.
The former California senator and state attorney general also maintained her grand-nieces would see the nation elect its first female president “in their lifetime, for sure.”
Harris has been on a book tour promoting her memoir, “107 Days,” about her frenetic White House run following President Joe Biden’s stunning decision to exit the race after his July 2024 debate disaster against President Trump.
She dismissed betting odds that give her a slim chance of making it back to the White House.
“If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office — and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here,” she told the BBC.
Harris leads former California Gov. Gavin Newsom and former Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg in recent Democratic primary polls.
But her chances of being her party’s 2028 nominee are just 2 percent, according to the Polymarket betting site, which lists Newsom and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) as the current leaders.
In her book, Harris criticized Biden’s decision to seek reelection at age 81, although some Democrats slammed her campaign for failing to distinguish her policy plans from his.
She cited the “mantra” of it being “Joe and Jill’s decision” as to whether Biden would run again, in reference to former first lady Jill Biden.
“Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”
