This week, Kamala Harris poked her head back up out of the sand, carefully choosing Stephen Colbert’s show to tout her new book.
While Colbert did feed her some softballs, Harris blew the easiest question of the night.
Harris still is not ready for prime time, serving up yet another word salad when the pressure was on.
Colbert, as we all know, is nothing more than a Democrat talking head, often using his show to hit Trump and conservatives.
This is likely why Harris chose his Late Show to tout her new book and to lay the groundwork for another possible run at the White House in 2028.
Harris plugged her book with a video on X, stating, “What the world saw on the campaign trail was only part of the story. My new book is a behind-the-scenes look at my experience leading the shortest presidential campaign in modern history.”
That was a very passive-aggressive way of saying that if she had been given more time, she could have won the race, seemingly neglecting the fact that the more people saw of her, the more she slid in polling.
When Colbert asked Harris if her decision not to run for governor of California was because perhaps she was interested in a different office -- trying to get her to admit she was going to take another run at the White House -- Harris said that was not the case at all.
She stated, “Recently, I made the decision that I just, for now, I don’t want to go back in the system. I think it’s broken.”
Harris continued, “I always believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles. And I think, right now, that they’re not as strong as they need to be. And I just don’t want to, for now -- I don’t want to go back in the system. I want to travel the country. I want to listen to people. I want to talk with people. And I don’t want it to be transactional, where I’m asking for their vote.”
The former VP had more than $1 billion to spend during her 107-day campaign, yet she could not beat Trump. She says she wants to talk to people, yet her campaign talked AT people during the 2024 campaign. What is broken, Kamala, is your approach and how you treat people.
Harris was given a great opportunity by Colbert to step up and take the lead for the Democratic Party, but she once again served up a word salad instead.
Colbert asked Harris who the leader of her party was right now, which would have been a great opportunity for her to say that she believes she is the best person to lead the left.
Instead, Harris responded, “I think there are a lot -- I’m not going to go through names because then I’m going to leave somebody out and then I’m going to hear about it. But let me just say this. I think it is a mistake for us who want to figure out how to get … through this and get out of it to put it on the shoulders of any one person. It’s really on all our shoulders.”
This was another misstep for Harris when she was handed a golden opportunity. I am really curious to see how her book performs, as it will be a great way to take the nation's temperature in terms of interest in her at the top of the Democrats' ticket in 2028. For now, it is just a waiting game, but I have to say, from what I have seen thus far, if Harris is the best the Dems have in the next presidential election, we are likely going to be calling JD Vance “Mr. President.”
