Amazing, isn't it, how political fortunes can change so quickly. In 2024, after doddering, befuddled old Joe Biden was finally yanked off the Democrat stage by unseen hands wielding a huge, Chuck Jones/Warner Brothers-styled long-handled hook, Kamala Harris was being held up as the Democrats' big, shiny, cackling hope. Democrat operatives were singing the praises of their anointed candidate, even though said candidate couldn't string together a coherent sentence if you spotted her two verbs and a conjunction.
Then came November. Right up until the final Trump (hah), Democrats were confidently predicting a huge win for the Queen of Word Salads. The Queen of Word Salads was predicting a huge win. The only Democrats who weren't predicting a huge win were the Harris campaign staffers who had seen the campaign's internal polling numbers, and those numbers had these staffers likely reaching for the vodka and the Valium bottle. And we all know what happened; Kamala Harris and Tim "Great Walz of China" lost, catastrophically.
Now, the hoptoad-eyed Tim Walz is still Governor of Minnesota, so he at least knows where his next meal is coming from, for now. But Kamala Harris is unemployed, and is casting about looking for her next gig, and is considering a run for California's governor's office. There's just one problem: She's about as popular with Democrat donors as a dead woodchuck under the porch.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’ prospective gubernatorial bid is not striking up much excitement among Democratic fundraisers in California, Politico reported Friday.
The outlet spoke to multiple Democratic Party donors in California to see how they felt about Harris possibly running for governor. So far, her interest in exploring a gubernatorial run in the state following her 2024 presidential election loss hasn’t enthused many.
"She still would probably lead, but honestly, no one is incredibly pumped," one Southern California fundraiser told Politico.
Note that at this point in the game, the polling is mostly reflecting name recognition. There are no announced candidates, nobody putting out a platform; at this point, it's all academic. But Kamala Harris, even so, has some serious questions to answer before all the Democratic money people are going to get out their checkbooks.
"In interviews, several major donors in the state told POLITICO they fear her reemergence as a candidate would re-open still-fresh wounds from her defeat in 2024," the outlet reported.
"Some harbor lingering frustration about how her billion-dollar campaign juggernaut ended in debt and want assurances she would have a clear plan to win the governor’s mansion."
Well, she didn't have a clear plan to win the White House, other than not being Donald Trump.
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California, right now, is just a subset of the Democratic Party's greater problem: They have no talent, they have no young up-and-comers with broad appeal. The party seems to be putting forth as "leaders" the likes of AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Zohman Mamdani. These people won't appeal to anyone who is to the political right of Fidel Castro, but the Democrats now don't seem to know that. This is a party in free fall, and the fact that anyone, anywhere, thinks Kamala Harris is a viable candidate for any office with more prestige than Fourth Assistant Dogcatcher just shows how bad things really are.
Editor's Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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