Los Angeles – former vice president Kamala Harris Next year he will not run for the Governor of California, leaving the possibility that in 2028 she could introduce a third run in the White House.
“Over the past six months I have spent time at this moment in the history of our nation and the best way to continue the fight for the American nation and the development of values and ideals that I am loved,” said Harris in a statement issued by its office on Wednesday.
“I seriously wondered whether to ask the inhabitants of California to serve as their governor. I love this state, his people and his promise. This is my home. But after a deep reflection I decided that I would not run for a governor in these elections,” she said.
Harris’s decision extends Guess the game About her political future, which began after she lost last year’s presidential election to Donald Trump. Harris spent the months privately, considering whether to apply for the governor, the stage of the next escape to the White House, or away from the election policy after her bruise defeat by Trump.
She did not rule out another president’s race, after unsuccessful offers in 2020 and 2024. It is not known when he would make this decision.
Harris did not mention Trump directly in her statement, but said: “Our politics, our government and our institutions too often failed the American people, whose culmination was at the moment of the crisis.”
Will remain in the fight
“For now, my leadership – and public service – will not be in the chosen office. I can’t wait to return and listen to the American people, help selected democrats from all over the country who will fight fearlessness and sharing more details in the coming months about my own plans,” Harris said.
“In the United States, the authorities must lie with the people. And we, people, must use our power to fight for freedom, possibilities, honesty and dignity of everyone. I will remain in this fight” – a statement.
Harris would take part in a crowded competition to replace the Gavin Gavin Governor as a leader, taking into account its widespread recognition of names, the efficiency of obtaining funds and achieving victorious elections in the whole state. Before acting as a senator and US vice president, she was elected prosecutor general and the District Prosecutor in San Francisco.
But years later in Washington on the national and international stage, it was never clear whether Harris was interested in returning to the smaller world of state policy in Sacramento.
Young voters
The democratic strategist Sean Clegg, Harris’s longtime advisor, said that the former vice president had a temptation to make a governor’s run, but decided to examine other options. Among the possibilities she considered: starting a non -profit organization to involve younger voters.
“He has been in the election office for 22 simple years since she left the law school,” said Clegg. “She spent her whole life in the system, is more motivated, more excited about the possibility of making changes outside the system.”
“Her decision at the end of the day was only a decision of the intestine,” added Clegg. “She asked herself:” Do I want to go back to the system as the best clerk in California, or do I want to try to do something completely different? “
Another White House Run?
In addition to California, Harris’s political career was marked by historical novelty, but also disappointments.
Harris was looking for a democratic presidential nomination in 2020, but she gave up the race before Iow Iowa – the first defeat of her political career. After Joe Biden chose her as her friend, she went as the first woman, a black person or a person of origin from South Asia, who serves as a vice president. In 2024, Harris became a democratic presidential candidate after Biden left the race a few months before the election day and supported her. She lost this race with Trump, who won every condition of the swing.
Harris is in the face of uncertainty if he decides to do another white house.
Harris would have to convince national democrats that he was the face of the party’s future losing Trump last fall. He also wears luggage related to biden, which Democrats were increasingly criticized for looking for a second term, and not move to the side. Biden heritage He was destroyed When he left the office and since then new questions arose about his physical and mental abilities when his term ended.
It is expected that the presidential competition in 2028 will attract a large field, which may potentially include news. Each candidate will have to unify the fragile Democratic Party with low approval grades It fights to tardy down the Trump program in Washington.
In her most extensive public remarks from leaving the office in January, Harris said in a speech in San Francisco that Trump’s leadership represented the leadership ” Wholesale “American ideals.
Harris’s decision, in order not to look for the governor, keeps the competition for the broadly ended news. In the democratic field, the former US representative Katie Porter, former mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigos, former health secretary of Biden Xavier Becerra and a handful of state officials.
In Villaraigos’s statement, she speculated that Harris’s political career was not over. Her decision, he said, “reflects her constant commitment to service at the highest level of government.”
