Senate Democrats are skeptical about their former colleague, former Vice President Kamala Harris, making another presidential run in 2028 after she lost all seven battleground states to Donald Trump in November, but most of them aren't ruling out the possibility that she could clinch the party’s nomination if she plays her cards right.

Harris reemerged on the national stage last week at a San Francisco gala by delivering a widely publicized speech on Trump’s first 100 days in office, sounding at times like a candidate again as she slammed him for creating “the greatest man-made economic crisis in modern presidential history.”

Harris, who is 60, is weighing her future political options and is viewed as a possible contender to run for governor of California in 2026 or for president again in 2028.

One Democratic senator who requested anonymity to talk about the next presidential election gave a one word answer when asked about whether Harris should take another shot at the presidency: “No.”

The senator said she had her chance, the American people delivered their verdict and she should move on.

Other Democrats were more diplomatic.

Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), who ran for president in 2020, doesn’t necessarily see Harris as a frontrunner, even though polls show her leading the pack of potential candidates because of her high name ID, but said he thinks she could add “valuable perspective to the political debate.”

“I think time will tell,” he said when asked whether Harris would be a viable presidential candidate in the next election.

“I think she will add value to” the national conversation, he said. “What’s going to happen over the next six to 18 months is going to be lots of Democrats having lots of different opinions about what our priorities should be. What are the values we have to put first?

“I think she will have a valuable perspective on that,” he said.

Hickenlooper said Harris’s........

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