Kamala who? That's the first question that comes to mind when analyzing Democrat prospects for 2028.
Harris hasn't spoken in public in nearly three weeks, after her somewhat-delayed concession speech after the election. Harris made a public appearance five days later at a Veterans Day event, and has since remained in seclusion ... which is where Harris spent most of the three years preceding her emergency anointing as the Democrat presidential nominee in late July. Harris hasn't even shown up to backstop Joe Biden while the president(?) continues to fumble his way through the last two months of his(?) presidency.
Democrats would do well to remember that track record, as well as Harris' proof of incompetence in this general election. Charlie Spiering reported over the weekend that Harris is spending her Hawaiian vacation plotting her comeback in 2028, and that Democrats may find it difficult to deny her:
‘Of course she’s going to try and run again,’ one well-connected Democratic strategist told DailyMail.com, citing Harris’ ambition as a factor. ...
Indeed, polls show Harris is the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.
She leads with 41 percent of Democrats in a Puck News/Echelon Insights survey, while other possible candidates remain in single digits.
However, the poll also showed that 59 percent of Democrats would like to look beyond Harris when searching for a champion to lead them out of the political wilderness.
I saw the same Echelon data last week and remain unimpressed by it. Her standing in that poll reflects the residual effects of a massive propaganda campaign to boost her candidacy the likes of which we have never seen. Democrats and the Protection Racket Media spent the last four months telling their voters that Harris was 'brat,' filled with 'joy,' and was The Most Qualified Female Presidential Candidate In Human History. Less than two weeks later, only 41% of Democrat voters think she's a viable candidate in four years.
That result isn't an opening for Harris. It's a warning to the party.
Democrat leadership has yet to heed the warning, however. Spiering's contacts claim that she ran a "near flawless" campaign and "did the best she could" as an emergency replacement. The latter is clearly a lot more accurate than the former, however, and Harris' best was objectively inadequate to the task. Harris barely engaged the mainstream media that attempted to turn her into a cultural icon, and when she did, Harris was terrible at it.
And that is just one aspect of Harris' exposure of utter incompetence. Not only did Harris run a very flawed campaign that relied on nothing more than disqualifying Trump, she never bothered to make a case for her own leadership, not even when friendly media outlets practically begged her to do so. Remember her response to Sunny Hostin's plea to define herself separately from the deeply unpopular Joe Biden? "I can't think of a thing," Harris responded in relation to what she would do differently from Biden, a demonstration of just how a terrible candidate she was.
At other times, the lack of coherent thought in her extemporaneous responses and inappropriate laughter when challenged on her previous positions painted a picture of a deeply unserious person in way over her head. One Democrat told Spiering that "even when she’s talking forever, she’s not really saying much at all." Voters clearly saw that even through all of the Protection Racket Media gaslighting about Harris' supposed brilliance. Harris is an empty suit, and Democrat desperation to paint her as anything but does not qualify her to run again.
If Harris had run against anyone other than Donald Trump, she might have lost 45 states rather than 36.
That's not the only disconnect from reality in this proposition, either. To the point that Harris represents anything other than pure ambition, she represents the kind of progressive orthodoxy that American voters roundly and clearly rejected three weeks ago. Harris was even too extreme for 2019, and that was perhaps the apex of progressive electoral ambition and resonance. Harris is mainly a mouthpiece for the Woke Elites and Moneyed Left, both of which are clearly out of favor even in traditional Democrat demographics. Democrats need leadership that connects to Main Street rather than Wall Street and University Avenue, and Harris is so far off from that culture that she may as well be on Elon Musk's first expedition to Mars.
Anyone asking about Kamala 2028 needs to have their head examined. For an example of the wisdom and pertinence of this question, one has to go back to this classic scene from Airplane! Robert Stack speaks for all of us when he says, "Sorry, Ted, that's a dumb question. Skip that."
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