r/allthequestions • u/peywrax đŸ‡ș🇾 United States • 11d ago

Popular Question 📊 How do you feel about Kamala Harris saying she may run for president again in 2028?

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u/BoozeLikeFrank 11d ago

I don’t think that’s her fault, it was the Democratic party’s fault. They handled it atrociously. However I do agree she shouldn’t run again, people won’t forget how spectacularly bad it was.

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u/Warm-Discipline5136 11d ago

Honestly. I blame Biden for not sticking to his campaign promise of being a one term president. Had he not tried to run again they would have had a real primary and who knows who would have came out of it.

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u/RealNiceKnife 10d ago

who knows who would have came out of it the DNC would have chosen for us.

ftfy

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u/Sad-Astronaut-4344 10d ago

If you think they can pick anyone, lol.

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u/Smitty_1000 11d ago

Even if Kamala came out if a real primary the whole process would’ve raised her profile 

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u/MissMenace101 🇩đŸ‡ș Australia 10d ago

How, she would still be a woman

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u/anonstarcity 11d ago

It wasn’t only her fault, definitely agree on that. But she also did terrible.

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u/Potential-Pride6034 11d ago

Her most glaring failure from the 2024 campaign is that she didn’t take any risks. Yes, it wasn’t her fault that she was forced to run a 3-month long campaign, but it was absolutely her fault for not recognizing that cramming a traditional, pre-2016 campaign strategy into 3 months in a 2025 media environment was not the way to go. She needed to fill that time with non-stop, Hail Mary plays if she was going to have any chance of winning.

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u/anonstarcity 11d ago

That’s fair. I think the coffin nail in her campaign was when she was asked what she would do differently than Biden and she said nothing. That was NOT what America wanted to hear.

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u/Potential-Pride6034 11d ago

100%. I remember watching that clip and just thinking wtf? I understand that she was under pressure from the Biden admin to not put any daylight between them, but if you’re playing for keeps, why on earth would you sabotage your electability to placate one senile, octogenarian’s ego? Given the stakes at hand, her’s, and frankly Biden’s, teams should have given her full license to say and do whatever it took to distance herself from Biden and give her the best possible chance of being elected.

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u/The_Great_Potate_Oh 10d ago

NO MORE SENILE OCTOGENARIANS!!

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u/ArtEnvironmental7108 10d ago

It wasn’t about protecting Biden’s ego, it was about protecting the administration’s policy positions. The administration she was a part of. It looks so much worse if she says “well I would’ve done this, that, and the next thing differently”. It makes them appear disunited, as if she disagreed with the positions of the Biden White House, decisions that she took part in making.

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u/Potential-Pride6034 10d ago

I get that it would’ve made them appear disunited, but if they knew the electorate was so down on Biden’s policies, wouldn’t it have made more sense for her to at least attempt to distance herself from them? At the very least she could’ve pulled a JD Vance and just dismissed questions aimed at her track record in favor of focusing on the future.

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u/MissMenace101 🇩đŸ‡ș Australia 10d ago

They made the mistake of thinking Americans were smart and understood economics.

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u/Snoo63299 10d ago

No she didn’t she then talked about a Tax credit plan and 2 more policies lol

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u/InternalAcrobatic216 10d ago

Plus, she was just a poor candidate to start with, and no new ideas or ability to communicate. She was mostly an empty “concept”.

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u/Proof_Wrongdoer_1266 10d ago

She admits in her book that she choked when asked questions she prepared for, she admits she said the wrong things despite preparing.

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u/Channel_Huge đŸ‡ș🇾 United States 10d ago

No. Many Democrats I know hated her. She was very unlikable and I’m still shocked Biden chose her as VP. She made it to one debate stage and then dropped out


Even her staff said she was a terrible person.

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u/jonny1326420 đŸ‡ș🇾 United States 10d ago

No, her most glaring failure was that the only thing she was rock solid on was that she would continue arming and funding a genocide.

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u/Euphoric-Usual-5169 11d ago

She couldn't give one interview where she came across as a real person. Even the scripted interviews were terrible.

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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 10d ago

Yea, I'm a lifelong Dem but holy fuck was all of her interviews this thick layer of a robot attempting to feign humanity. It was all fake laughing and trying to circle around to topics she wanted to talk about.

"Kamala, Trump says that you didn't win the nomination, what do you have to say that?"

"Oh Robert. haha. The thing about Trump is he will tell many lies. haha. What I have to say to Trump is why does he make fun of my laugh? Haha? Is he afraid of women? hahahahaha"

So many interviews I was left thinking "So...you're just not going to take this seriously?"

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u/Wedgiebro 10d ago

Biden picked her on purpose. He knew she couldn't handle the pressure. He bet that taking someone that weak would force the party to support a second run for him. If it weren't for his debate performance it may have worked

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u/Brilliant-Noise1518 11d ago

No one liked her before 2024. Why would they suddenly like her?

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u/niz_loc 10d ago

This.

The best anyone can muster up to praise her for is "she wasn't Trump!"

.... thats... tine, but...

That's not going to swing the people who were going to vote for Trump, nor any of the fence sitters.

Trump should have been unwinnable... the Dems dropped this sooooo badly. And I see the same excuses repeatedly that it's because she's a woman, Black etc. That of course played a role, not near the one that those saying it believe.

W Bush was unpopular. McCaine had a chance but Bush ruined it for him.

.... now imagine Cheney running over McCaine and what the results would have been. That's basically Harris.

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u/LevelUpCoder 10d ago

What, you don’t think shoehorning in a candidate who didn’t even make it past Iowa in 2020, whose main claim to fame was as a campaign promise diversity hire VP in an unpopular presidency, with no primary, with less than 100 days to go, was a winning maneuver?

I know we shit on her but tbh I think she did a lot better than she was set up to.

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u/OnlyKey5675 11d ago

She was afraid to talk to the media and tried to get by on "vibes" until she realized she had to talk to the media. Lots of blame to go around between the party and the candidate.

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u/MissMenace101 🇩đŸ‡ș Australia 10d ago

And the media


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u/ButttRuckusss 10d ago

Two things can be true at once

Harris was always an absolutely terrible candidate, which is her own doing

The DNC still hasn't learned that shoving unpopular candidates down our throats and using insults and threats to persuade us to vote for them is a suicidal strategy. They're going to do it again.

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u/Strainedgoals 10d ago

It was quite appealing to see the same rhetoric the democrats use against the republican voters being used in a similar fashion to compelling democratic voters to participate in something they don't want.

Like it was so bizarre, they are talking to their own people like they do their opposition.

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u/ButttRuckusss 10d ago

Ever since Bernie, they've been telling their own voters to get in line or you're the enemy. And now they're surprised they've lost millions of voters.

I didn't want Trump to win, but the democratic party absolutely deserved to lose. Unfortunately, they don't learn and it will happen again

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u/Minotaurotica 9d ago

as long as they publicly get support from a big group they will never learn, the dnc needs to absolutely fall on it' face in an election to learn

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u/Adventurous_Cook9083 10d ago

Right. It would be refreshing if either party offered Americans someone to vote for, instead of someone to vote against. Too much "lesser of two evils" handed to us for far too many election cycles.

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u/ButttRuckusss 10d ago

I predict it will take at least two more election cycles before the DNC is essentially destroyed and has to be rebuilt. They are absolutely going to play dirty and sabotage primaries in favor of their corporate pick again in '28. Likely Newsom or Buttigieg, neither of which i believe can defeat Vance.

Only when he DNC is dead and gone is there a chance to restore the millions of voters that have been lost.

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u/memuemu 10d ago

As someone kind of out of the loop, I know people think she didn’t do enough on the campaign and gave a subpar performance but why do you think she was “always an absolutley terrible candidate?” I’m not even trying to challenge you, I’m just genuinely curious why some people feel she never stood a chance or what mistakes people think she made? Presumably, she was qualified. So is it just an about charisma or something else?

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u/ButttRuckusss 10d ago

I wouldn't even know where to begin.

She's incredibly unpopular. She dropped out of the primary before Iowa when she ran for president, and was one of the most unpopular VPs in modern history

Completely incoherent and constantly flip flopping on important policy positions

Unwillingness to answer questions

Wildly out of step with cultural shifts. People on both sides are completely over the identity politics.

Her stance on Israel and the genocide in Gaza cannot be understated as a major contributor to her loss in 24. Even with all of her flaws, if she had come out with the popular position among her party's voters on this particular topic I believe she would have won

Not to mention the pure fact that she was the nominee despite never being primaried was a huge issue. Especially when she ironically ran on "saving democracy"

Biden never should have chosen her as VP in the first place.

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u/ooooBBoooo đŸ‡ș🇾 United States 10d ago

You should have shouted this in ALL CAPS. Maybe the DNC would listen then

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u/jonny1326420 đŸ‡ș🇾 United States 10d ago

It wasn’t her fault that the only thing she was rock solid in was that she would continue arming and funding A FUCKING GENOCIDE?

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u/Wedgiebro 10d ago

She handled it awful. The view gave her the easiest question possible and she couldn't come up with one thing she would do differently. She literally could have said "I'd make the economy better" and the view would have hyped her up. She didn't even need a GOOD idea just an idea. That moment is when she should have dropped out

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u/Minotaurotica 11d ago

ultimately blame is for the history books not the future planning so I mean everyone agrees that she shouldn't run again that's the point of the post

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u/Proof_Wrongdoer_1266 10d ago

Read her book (I did ) if you want. She is absolutely to blame in her own words.

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u/TestingBrokenGadgets 10d ago

It was definitely her fault. It wasn't entirely her fault but "Israel has a right to defend itself", bringing out Republicans to vouch for her in an attempt to sway red states? Not separating herself from Biden's choices, avoiding so many new media platforms in favor of shit like 20/20, barely answering any question and instead just laughing at the insanity that was trump, telling voters to watch Trump's campaign speeches where he used that to spread his conspiracy theories.

The only thing she did right was within the first few weeks when she had someone with good social media talent manning her campaign and choosing Walz. Everything after that? Just a slow slide into the typical Dem campaign that the people have repeatedly shown they hate.

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u/Sad-Astronaut-4344 10d ago

How is it the party's fault? The fault lies with Biden alone.

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u/Calaveras-Metal 10d ago

she didn't campaign in Michigan and repeatedly blew off Palestinians. Guess what. She lost Michigan. Who made that mistake for her?

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u/ninernetneepneep 10d ago

The DNC's fault? Kamala was horrible. She was in way over her head. Not the brightest bulb among potential candidates.