Kamala Harris doesn’t rule out California governor’s race

Kamala Harris could be the adjacent governor of California.

Weeks aft being defeated by President-elect Donald Trump, the erstwhile Democratic statesmanlike nominee has told her interior ellipse she volition support each options open, according to Politico. That could see California’s 2026 gubernatorial race.

A University of California, Berkeley canvass taken soon earlier the predetermination showed 1 successful 3 Golden State voters said they’d beryllium “very likely” to ballot for Harris and and different 13% see themselves “somewhat likely” to enactment her.

Outgoing Rep. Katie Porter, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis and erstwhile Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa are besides considered perchance beardown candidates for the job. Gov. Gavin Newsom has been elected doubly and isn’t eligible to tally again.

Harris reportedly told associates she’s “staying successful the fight” aft leaving her occupation arsenic Vice President successful January.

She got much than 74 cardinal votes successful her nonaccomplishment to Trump, contempt having lone 107 days to run aft President Joe Biden, 82, ended his bid for reelection. Harris went to Hawaii to unbend with household and elder aides aft her decision and is successful reportedly nary unreserved to determine connected her adjacent move.

California Governor Gavin Newsom. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Former Harris adjutant Brian Brokaw said told Politico his ex-boss is known to sometimes instrumentality “a painfully agelong clip to marque decisions.”

Prior to serving successful the White House, the 60-year-old Oakland autochthonal spent 4 years representing California successful the U.S. Senate. Harris was the 32nd Attorney General of California from 2011 to 2017. She made that leap aft spending 7 years arsenic San Francisco’s Attorney General.

Biden tapped Harris arsenic his Vice President aft she competed against him for the Democratic Party’s statesmanlike information successful 2020.

“I picked her due to the fact that she is smart and tough,” Biden told Pennsylvania expanse metallic workers successful October. “But astir of all, I picked her due to the fact that she has quality and she has integrity.”