Before explicitly telling Al Sharpton she was considering running for president again on Friday afternoon, former Vice President Kamala Harris had not exactly been hiding her ambitions. The book tour for her campaign memoir, 107 Days, is now longer than its title. She’s started holding fundraisers for state parties and has issued a handful of endorsements — everything you would expect a presidential contender to do more than two years out from the 2028 election.
“Listen, I might. I might. I’m thinking about it,” Harris said on Friday at the Sharpton-hosted National Action Network conference in New York. “I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. I spent countless hours in my West Wing office, footsteps away from the Oval Office. I spent countless hours in the Situation Room. I know what the job is and I know what it requires.”
While Harris has been met by large crowds at her book stops – and was greeted with a wave of unbridled enthusiasm at the Sharpton event – the broader Democratic Party apparatus is not exactly rushing to encourage her to run, a sign of how difficult the former vice president might find it to convince Democrats to run it back at a time when seemingly everyone thinks the party needs major change.
