Harris, defeated by the tycoon at the end of an election campaign that lasted just over three months and was launched after Joe Biden withdrew, said her granddaughters will see a female president “for sure, in their lifetime,” admitting she had considered running again for commander in chief.
The Democratic Party, or a segment of it, is trying to make a splash and carve out a space for itself in a media dominated by the White House’s foreign and domestic policy initiatives, in the midst of a federal shutdown with no end in sight. The attempt to steal the spotlight from Donald Trump comes from his 2024 presidential challenger, Kamala Harris, who in recent hours has opened up about a possible 2028 candidacy. “I’m not done yet,” the former California attorney general said in an interview with the BBC.
Harris, defeated by the tycoon at the end of an election campaign that lasted just over three months and began after Joe Biden withdrew, said her granddaughters will see a female president “for sure, in their lifetime,” admitting that he had considered running for commander in chief again. The former vice president added that he had spent his entire career “serving the country and it’s in my blood,” but clarified that he had not yet made a final decision about his political future.
HARRIS’ RE-RUNNING
When told that she was trailing in the polls, even behind actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Harris responded that if she had listened to them, “I wouldn’t have run for my first or second term, and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here.” The former prosecutor then declared that her predictions about what Trump would do once he returned to the White House had come true.
“He said he would use the Justice Department as a weapon, and he has done just that,” the Democratic politician said, alluding to recent indictments, among others, against former FBI Director James Comey and New York City Attorney Letitia James. Regarding blame for her election loss, Harris, who is currently on a book tour promoting her “107 Days,” which chronicles her run for the White House, said she wished she had had more time to connect with working-class Americans and explain her agenda on housing and child care.
SCENARIO REPEAT
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson commented on Harris’s interview with the BBC, saying that, after her election loss, the former Trump challenger failed to understand that “the American people are not interested in her absurd lies.” However, it appears that the 2024 race could be a repeat. MAGA podcaster and former West Wing aide Steve Bannon suggested in a recent interview that there is a plan for President Donald Trump to try to defy the Constitution and seek a third term in office in 2028.
“Trump is going to be president in 2028, and people are just going to have to adjust to that,” he told The Economist on October 23. Although Bannon, who served four months in prison last year and has pleaded guilty to separate fraud charges, does not have the same power in the White House as he did during Trump’s first term, he indicated that there are “a lot of different options” to keep his former boss in the presidency. “At the right time, we will present what the plan is,” Bannon said. “But there is a plan.”
TRUMP’S PLANS
Trump has publicly mentioned the idea on numerous occasions since winning re-election in 2024, despite the fact that the 22nd Amendment prohibits a president from serving more than two four-year terms, regardless of whether they were consecutive. Presidential term limits are a central tenet of American democracy and the American political system.
Trump’s claims about renting the White House are just one of many examples of his willingness to overstep the boundaries of executive authority. Republicans in Congress have so far dismissed the president’s comments about serving a third term. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, told reporters in March that Trump could not stay in the White House “without an amendment to the Constitution.”
