Former Vice President Kamala Harris is the GOP gift that keeps on giving. In an interview on the BBC show Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Harris said, “I am not done. I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones.”
Republicans can only hope that Harris is the Democratic Party presidential nominee again. In the 2024 race, Harris was a disastrous candidate. After performing reasonably well at the Democratic National Convention and in her only televised debate with President Donald Trump, Harris decided not to engage with the media. She was rarely interviewed and when she did give answers, it was usually a confusing blend of “word salad” nonsense.
When not responding unintelligibly, Harris gave unpopular answers. For example, in response to a question on the ABC show, The View, about what she would do differently from President Joe Biden, Harris said “not a thing that comes to mind.”
Really, in a “change” election when the American electorate wanted a new direction from Biden’s unpopular policies, Harris said she would do nothing differently. This response eliminated her chances of victory.
During the 2024 presidential race, Democratic strategist James Carville noted that 65% of Americans said the country under Biden was on the “wrong track.” The question on The View was “the one…you exist to answer, all right? That is, it. That’s the money question. That’s the one you want. That’s the one that everybody wants to know the answer to. And you freeze!”
Harris was a miserable failure in another interview, on the CBS program 60 Minutes. She was asked about the war in Gaza, and her answer was so pathetic that CBS had to edit it to make any sense of her response. It was so egregious that President Trump successfully sued CBS for helping Harris sound intelligent and for interfering in the 2024 election.
Undoubtedly the worst decision of Kamala Harris in the 2024 campaign was choosing goofball Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz was a terrible choice and bombed on the campaign trail and in the only vice-presidential debate against the GOP nominee, then U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH).
After her pathetic performance as a candidate, it was not a surprise that Harris lost in a landslide to President Trump. Harris claims the 2024 results were “historic,” and “the closest election for President of the United States in the 21st Century. Period,” but the reality is much different.
The former Vice President lost every swing state and the Electoral College by a 312-226 margin to President Trump. In addition, Harris was the first Democratic Party presidential candidate since 2004 to lose the popular vote. Trump received 77.3 million votes, over 2 million more than Harris.
As a presidential nominee three times, Donald Trump improved in every election, increasing his 2016 vote total in 2020 and, in 2024, securing more votes than any other GOP presidential candidate in history. In contrast, Harris attracted 6.2 million less votes than Joe Biden received in 2020.
In explaining her loss, Harris claims that her campaign was hurt by the abbreviated time frame of only 107 days, which is the title of her new book. Harris contends that while she had the “unprecedented” task of replacing President Biden as the nominee, she was facing a candidate who was “running for 10 years.”
Her lame excuse is the focus of her book tour and will be the centerpiece of her campaign for the 2028 presidential nomination. Of course, it is a lie, as the truth is that Harris is a dreadful candidate.
Unlike Trump, who won the 2024 GOP nomination by defeating his opponents in nationwide primaries, Harris was given the Democratic nod by party leaders, who guaranteed no candidates would oppose her. Harris won no delegates or primary contests in securing a nomination that was rigged by the Democratic Party once again.
In 2016 and 2020, Democratic Party leaders rigged the presidential nomination against U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). In 2024, the Democratic Party made sure their voters had no choice in the presidential nomination. While Trump competed and won the Republican Party nomination, Harris was handed her party’s nomination on a political silver platter.
If she had been forced to run against other viable candidates, it is quite likely Harris would have lost. In the 2020 presidential campaign, Harris was the first major candidate to exit the race before the voting started. She was unable to attract enough campaign donations or political support to make it to the Iowa caucuses.
As the 2028 presidential campaign looms, Harris is already behind other potential candidates. A Politico-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey conducted two months ago, which gauged support for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, showed Harris with the backing of only 19% of respondents. The frontrunner was California Governor Gavin Newsom, with 25% support.
Harris is especially unpopular among “senior Democrats.” According to pollster Lakshya Jain, 54% have a “somewhat or very unfavorable view” of her.
Despite her unfavorable ratings, Harris seems determined to run again. In her BBC interview, she said, “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.”
Republicans will pray Harris ignores the polls and runs again. Democratic Party leaders may feel compelled to rig another presidential race and give her the nomination because of her status as a “woman of color.”
If she enters the 2028 race, Americans will see more signs of “Trump derangement syndrome” from Kamala Harris. In the BBC interview, she labeled the President a “tyrant” because of his success in encouraging business leaders to support his agenda.
Business leaders support Trump because he is a winner. Conversely, they will reject Harris, a two-time loser as a presidential candidate. If she runs a third time for President, and is given the nomination, it will only be a charm for Republicans, who will win the presidency again.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from Noon until 1 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance, and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and at Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail.com
