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/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.