Oct. 25 (UPI) — Kamela Harris said she may run again for U.S. president in the 2028 election.
The interview will be broadcast Sunday on the BBC and excerpts were released on Saturday.
The former vice president told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg that her grandnices would “in their lifetime for” see a woman in the White House and “possibly” it could be her.
“I am not done,” Harris said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it’s in my bones.”
Harris, who turned 61 on Monday, said she hasn’t made a decision yet, more than three years before the election.
Harris lost to Donald Trump in the 2024 election after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, just than a month before the Democratic convention.
Her book, 107 days, released on Sept. 23, details the short length of her campaign.
Harris dismissed polls that have her trailing in the Democratic nomination behind California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
“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,” said Harris, the former California senator, attorney general and state attorney who challenged Biden for the top spot on the ticket in 2020.
Harris again criticized her 2024 opponent, calling him a “tyrant.”
The White House responded to Harris’s comments.
“When Kamala Harris lost the election in a landslide, she should’ve taken the hint –the American people don’t care about her absurd lies,” spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said.
“Or maybe she did take the hint and that’s why she’s continuing to air her grievances to foreign publications.”
Trump defeated Harris in the popular vote, 77.3 million to 75 million, and the Electoral College vote 312-226.
She noted warnings about him while campaigning have come true.
For example, “He said he would weaponize the Department of Justice – and he has done exactly that.”
And she noted changes to other agencies.
“You look at what has happened in terms of how he has weaponised, for example, federal agencies going around after political satirists … His skin is so thin he couldn’t endure criticism from a joke, and attempted to shut down an entire media organisation in the process.”
Business leaders and institutions are wrong to bow to the president’s demands, she said.
“There are many… that have capitulated since day one, who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant, I believe for many reasons, including they want to be next to power, because they want to perhaps have a merger approved or avoid an investigation.”
In July, Harris said she won’t run for California governor in 2026.
“For now, my leadership – and public service – will not be in elected office,” Harris said at the time.
