Former Vice President Kamala Harris would easy triumph a contention for California politician successful 2026 if she wanted the job.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is term-limited from moving again, leaving the contention unfastened successful 2026.
Internal polling shared with the Hollywood Reporter shows the erstwhile vice president moving distant with the contention if she ran, adjacent arsenic billionaire Rick Caruso is eying the race.
In 2022, Caruso mislaid a adjacent contention for politician of Los Angeles to Rep. Karen Bass, contempt spending $104 cardinal successful his campaign, astir of it from his ain funds.
The authorities mismanagement of the Los Angeles wildfires successful January has damaged the governmental estimation of Bass and different authorities Democrats, giving Caruso a imaginable opening successful the dense Democratic state.
'If Kamala gets successful the race, it volition beryllium hers to lose,' a governmental advisor monitoring the erstwhile vice president told THR. 'She whitethorn not person performed connected the nationalist level, but if you look astatine her way grounds successful California, she’s done highly well.'
Harris mislaid her statesmanlike contention successful 2024 to President Donald Trump but she remains fashionable successful California contempt immoderate voters successful the authorities shifting to the right.
It's unclear whether Harris wants to tally for governor, arsenic going backmost to California and running for state-wide office could beryllium seen arsenic a measurement backmost successful her governmental vocation aft serving arsenic vice president.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astatine the National Action Network
The way is not unheard of.
Former Vice President Richard Nixon mislaid his statesmanlike contention successful 1960 against John F. Kennedy and ran for politician of California 2 years later. His run for California politician failed, but helium ran for president again successful 1968 and won.
Democratic insiders afloat expect Harris to run for president again successful 2028, adjacent though her 106 time statesmanlike run came up abbreviated against Trump aft she replaced Biden.
Harris is already starring the contention for the Democratic nomination, mostly acknowledgment to her sanction designation from the past campaign.
A McLaughlin canvass published successful January showed Harris starring with 33 percent implicit 2nd spot imaginable rival Pete Buttigieg astatine 9 percent and Gov. Gavin Newsom successful 3rd spot with 7 percent.
Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gives a connection aft visiting a occurrence station
Former Vice President Kamala Harris is reportedly keeping her options unfastened arsenic she weighs her governmental future
Rick J. Caruso, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Caruso Affiliated is reportedly eyeing the race
Speaking to the National Action Network earlier she near office, Harris urged her supporters to enactment successful the fight.
'We indispensable beryllium beardown and that immoderate the result of immoderate peculiar moment, we tin ne'er beryllium defeated,' she said. 'Our tone tin ne'er beryllium defeated, due to the fact that erstwhile that happens, we won’t win.'
After leaving the vice presidency successful January, Harris and her hubby Doug Emhoff instantly went to Los Angeles and visited firefighters and served nutrient to wildfire evacuees.
'We wanted to travel retired and successful peculiar to this bonzer community, and conscionable fto radical cognize that we spot them and that they are cared for,' she said.
Since then, she has remained mostly quiescent arsenic she weighs her governmental future.