KAMALA AND THE COMMUNISTS. There are reports former vice president and 2024 losing presidential candidate Kamala Harris has been touching base with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other leaders of the socialist/communist vanguard making deep inroads inside the Democratic Party. It makes sense. Harris appears to believe she can be the 2028 Democratic nominee, and in the unlikely event that were to happen, she would need good relations, or at least some relations, with the party’s furthest-left wing.Mamdani didn’t sound particularly thrilled by Harris’s attention. “The vice president reached out to have a conversation, and we’ve had a brief conversation,” he said on a podcast this week. “We’ve been in touch over the last few months, and I really do appreciate her outreach.” Just say Mamdani seemed polite but underwhelmed.Axios, which first reported the contacts, said that Harris has also “been holding lengthy, closed-door meetings with other prominent progressives.” She is apparently focusing on pro-Palestinian activists, trying to forge some sort of bond with them after she remained mostly quiet when President Joe Biden expressed support for Israel in the war in Gaza that followed the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack. Harris is no doubt telling the pro-Palestinian types that she was secretly with them all along.