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(The Hill) — Former Vice President Harris signaled connected Saturday that she is leaving the doorway unfastened to launching a 2028 statesmanlike bid — which would people her 3rd effort astatine securing the Oval Office.
“I americium not done,” Harris said successful an interview with BBC, adding that she could "possibly" inactive beryllium president 1 day.
"I person lived my full vocation arsenic a beingness of work and it's successful my bones," she told British writer Laura Kuenssberg.
This is the strongest hint that Harris could marque a comeback bid aft losing to President Trump astir a twelvemonth ago, though the erstwhile Democratic nominee said she has yet to marque up her mind.
In an interrogation with MSNBC past month, the erstwhile vice president said she was not focused connected 2028.
“That’s not my absorption close now. That’s not my absorption astatine all, it truly isn’t,” Harris said, adding that she alternatively wanted to usage her clip to assistance susceptible Democrats clasp onto their seats during the midterm elections.
The erstwhile vice president besides reportedly weighed a bid for California governor. Harris announced successful July that she would not question to regenerate word constricted Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), who has besides been floated arsenic a imaginable 2028 statesmanlike contender.
Speculation astir her adjacent moves has lone been exacerbated since past month's merchandise of her memoir "107 Days" which elaborate Harris's little 2024 run aft erstwhile President Biden withdrew from the race, and her consequent media tour.
In 1 excerpt, she suggested Biden’s determination to run for reelection amounted to “recklessness" and that helium "got tired." She besides outlines her thought process down picking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) to articulation the summons arsenic her moving mate and includes investigation astir her uphill conflict against Trump aft Biden stepped aside.
The publication has received mixed reviews from galore seen arsenic imaginable allies, including erstwhile Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. Many Democrats person aired vexation with Harris implicit immoderate of the revelations successful her memoir, arguing that it could origin part astatine the worst imaginable clip for the party.
While caller polling has shown enactment waning for the erstwhile vice president, Harris brushed disconnected the concerns connected Saturday.
"If I listened to polls I would person not tally for my archetypal office, oregon my 2nd bureau — and I surely wouldn't beryllium sitting here," she told Kuenssberg.
During her publication tour, Harris besides lashed retired astatine the Trump administration. Earlier this month, she condemned galore of the president's enforcement actions since returning to the Oval Office and argued that Trump lacks "guardrails."
In the BBC interview, she elaborated connected the comment, making notation to indictments of his perceived governmental rivals, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, erstwhile nationalist information advisor John Bolton and erstwhile FBI Director James Comey.
"He said helium would weaponize the Department of Justice — and helium has done precisely that," she said Saturday, portion besides pointing to the little suspension of late-night big Jimmy Kimmel pursuing comments helium made astir the assassination of blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk.
"You look astatine what has happened successful presumption of however helium has weaponized, for example, national agencies going astir aft governmental satirists…," she continued later. "His tegument is truthful bladed helium couldn't endure disapproval from a gag and attempted to unopen down an full media enactment successful the process."
The afloat BBC interrogation is acceptable to aerial Sunday astatine 5 p.m. EDT.
