REPORT: Kamala Harris Eyes New Run For Office

CNN is reporting that a number of advisors close to Vice President Kamala Harris are urging her to run for governor of California when her term as vice president ends in January.

According to a report from CNN’s Isaac Dovere, a number of top aides and close friends of the vice president are urging her to run for the soon-to-be open seat in 2026. Those in favor of the bid have pointed to Harris’ rise in favorability rating after President Biden suspended his presidential campaign back in July. After polling as the most unpopular vice president in American history, Harris’ favorability rating climbed north of 50 percent at multiple points during her abbreviated White House campaign, according to several pollsters.

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Advisors have also pointed to Harris’ massive fundraising haul, as the campaign raised north of one-billion-dollars. While the campaign ended the cycle in debt and has come under fire for a number of questionable spending decisions, a number of political strategists and White House aides have pointed the finger at former Obama aides like David Plouffe and Jen O’Malley Dillon for poor money management.

Harris has also been elected to statewide office three times in California, twice as attorney general and once as a U.S. Senator.

After speaking with more than a dozen current and former Harris advisers and other top California Democratic Party figures, the Harris camp is split between pursuing another bid for president and a run for governor.

If Harris does indeed jump in the race, a number of potential candidates told CNN that they would step aside and back her campaign.

“What she’s been saying to people over the last couple of weeks, donors, other supporters that she’s been talking with, is you haven’t seen the last of me, I’m not going quietly into the night,” Devore said. “Advisors, people close to her, are debating about what that means. They do not want her final official act ever to be essentially certifying Donald Trump’s win over her, especially four years after January 6. And so they look at this governor’s race in California in 2026, and it seems to them like a layup, essentially, that she would probably clear the field or mostly clear the field, and she would get to be governor of California.”

If Harris opts to run for governor, her advisors believe she should announce her candidacy by the summer of 2025 at the latest.

Harris would have to think of running for governor as “more of a capstone than a stepping stone,” said one person who has advised her in the past. “If you’re thinking of running for president in 2028, the worst thing you can do is run for governor in 2026.”

Another source close to the vice president disagreed, arguing that she would have a good chance at winning the presidency in 2028 should she decide to skip the gubernatorial race.

“Running for governor would be a step down, and it would interfere with her ability to run for president again,” the person said. “I don’t know if she’s going to run for president again, but a shot at running for president again is worth giving up running for governor.”

While Harris’ intentions remain unclear, those around her were unanimous in believing that she will be running for one of the two positions.

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