Former US Vice President Kamala Harris has dropped her strongest hint yet that she may seek the presidency again, telling the BBC in a candid interview, “I am not done.”
“I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones,” Harris said, reflecting on her political journey and future ambitions. “If I listened to polls, I would not have run for my first office or my second, and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here.”
The interview marked Harris’s most direct acknowledgment that she could make another bid for the White House after her 2024 defeat to now-President Donald Trump. When asked whether the US might soon see a woman president, Harris said she believes her grandnieces will witness that milestone “in their lifetime, for sure.” Pressed on whether that woman could be her, she replied with a measured smile: “Possibly.”
A Painful Defeat, but Not the End
Harris’s remarks come as she promotes her new book, 107 Days, which chronicles her short but intense 2024 campaign, one that lasted just over three months after then-President Joe Biden withdrew from the race amid concerns about his health.
In the BBC interview, Harris described her election loss as both “surprising and traumatizing.” She recalled the moment the results came in, Trump securing 312 electoral votes to her 226, saying she kept repeating, “My God, my God, what will happen to our country?”
Though she has kept a relatively low profile since the defeat, the book and the interview signal a political reemergence. “There are many ways to serve,” Harris said. “I have not decided yet what I will do in the future beyond what I am doing now.”
Taking Aim at Trump and His Allies
Harris didn’t hold back when assessing President Trump’s second term, accusing him of using federal agencies to silence dissent and critics. “You look at what has happened in terms of how he has weaponized, for example, federal agencies going around after political satirists,” she said. “His skin is so thin he couldn’t endure criticism from a joke and attempted to shut down an entire media organization in the process.”
She also condemned American business leaders who, in her view, have “bent the knee at the foot of a tyrant.” Many, she claimed, have done so “because they want to be next to power, to get a merger approved or avoid an investigation.”
Harris argued that her warnings about Trump’s authoritarian impulses have been vindicated. “He said he would weaponize the Department of Justice, and he has done exactly that,” she added.
White House Fires Back
The White House quickly responded to Harris’s comments. Spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said, “When Kamala Harris lost the election in a landslide, she should’ve taken the hint, the American people don’t care about her absurd lies. Or maybe she did take the hint, and that’s why she’s airing her grievances to foreign publications.”
Despite the sharp rebuke, Trump and his allies have continued to tease the possibility of another campaign in 2028, a move that would violate the constitutional two-term limit.
For Harris, the question now is not just whether she will run again, but whether the Democratic Party, and the American electorate, are ready for her return. Her insistence that she’s “not done” suggests that she still sees unfinished business in her political career.
As she told the BBC, she remains confident that a woman will eventually lead the United States. Whether that woman will be Kamala Harris is a question only time, and perhaps another election cycle, will answer.
