Kamala Harris is ready for her comeback!

That’s right, the candidate who has shown no particular talent for winning national presidential elections, or even achieving the nomination of her own party via democratic means, is very likely going to run again, in 2028. She said as much in a recent interview with the BBC.

If Harris were giving up on her quest for the presidency, she would have ruled it out explicitly by now. She’s clearly leaving the door open, because she’s going to walk through it. My question is, why? Why on earth would she put herself through this again?

What was true in the last election cycle, and in 2019, remains true now: Kamala Harris is a very, very weak candidate for the Democratic Party. When she pursued the presidency in 2019, her campaign faltered badly from the start: she demonstrated no real ability to connect with some significant constituency of the Democratic Party, and dropped out before the primaries really got underway. And in 2024, the only reason she became the candidate is because Joe Biden dropped out and handpicked her as his replacement, and then Democratic elites coalesced around her.

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