{"id":30618,"date":"2025-10-26T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=30618"},"modified":"2025-10-26T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:49:00","slug":"kamala-harris-says-shes-not-done-with-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=30618","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Says She&#8217;s &#8216;Not Done&#8217; With Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKamala Harris\u00a0isn\u2019t ruling out another run for the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn an\u00a0interview with the BBC\u00a0posted Saturday, Harris said she expects a woman will be president in the coming years, and it could \u201cpossibly\u201d be her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI am not done,\u201d she said. The former vice-president said she hasn\u2019t decided whether to mount a 2028 presidential campaign. But she dismissed the suggestion that she\u2019d face long odds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cI have lived my entire career a life of service and it\u2019s in my bones. And there are many ways to serve,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019ve never listened to polls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tShe\u2019s recently given a series of interviews following the\u00a0September release\u00a0of her book,\u00a0<em>107 Days<\/em>.\u00a0It looks back on her experience replacing then-President Joe Biden as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee after\u00a0he dropped out\u00a0of the race. She\u00a0ultimately lost\u00a0to Republican President\u00a0Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn an\u00a0interview with the Associated Press\u00a0last week, Harris, 60, also made clear that running again in 2028 is still on the table. She said she sees herself as a leader of the party, including in pushing back against Trump and preparing for the 2026 midterms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAsked in an Oct. 17 interview with AP whether she had plans for a 2028 bid, Harris said, \u201cI haven\u2019t decided. Sincerely. I have not decided. I may or I may not. I have not decided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAsked specifically whether she still wanted to do the job itself, she used the past tense, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s a job I wanted to do.\u201d But she noted that the only way to do it \u201cis to run\u201d and win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMeanwhile,\u00a0political jockeying\u00a0among Democrats for the 2028 presidential contest appears to be playing out even earlier than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Several potential candidates are already taking steps to get to know voters in key states, including California Gov.\u00a0Gavin Newsom, term-limited Kentucky Gov.\u00a0Andy Beshear\u00a0and California Rep.\u00a0Ro Khanna. Upwards of 30 high-profile Democrats could ultimately enter the primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamala Harris\u00a0isn\u2019t ruling out another run for the White House. In an\u00a0interview with the BBC\u00a0posted Saturday, Harris said she expects a woman will be president in the coming years, and it could \u201cpossibly\u201d be her. \u201cI am not done,\u201d she said. The former vice-president said she hasn\u2019t decided whether to mount a 2028 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[881,880,124,7054],"class_list":{"0":"post-30618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-harris","9":"tag-kamala","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-shes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}