Kamala Harris Emerges… Focused on National Issues, Not State Ones

Today, former vice president Kamala Harris is scheduled to deliver the keynote address “at the Emerge 20th Anniversary Gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, honoring the group’s role in electing more Democratic women in California politics.” NBC News reports, “Harris is expected to call out Trump over his policies and how she believes they are failing Americans.”

I am coming around to John Girardi’s conclusion that Harris isn’t really that interested in running for governor of California in 2026, and that people at the top levels of California Democratic politics either know it or strongly suspect it. Girardi wrote here at NR earlier this month, regarding Xavier Becerra’s announced gubernatorial campaign, “Harris would have such an advantage in a gubernatorial race based on name recognition alone that I think her presence would dissuade serious, non-desperate challengers (apologies to Katie Porter) like Becerra from running, or donors from backing them. I would guess Becerra took the donors’ temperature before announcing, many of whom likely gave to both his and Harris’s prior statewide campaigns.”

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Today, former vice president Kamala Harris is scheduled to deliver the keynote address “at the Emerge 20th Anniversary Gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, honoring the group’s role in electing more Democratic women in California politics.” NBC News reports, “Harris is expected to call out Trump over his policies and how she believes they are failing Americans.”

I am coming around to John Girardi’s conclusion that Harris isn’t really that interested in running for governor of California in 2026, and that people at the top levels of California Democratic politics either know it or strongly suspect it. Girardi wrote here at NR earlier this month, regarding Xavier Becerra’s announced gubernatorial campaign, “Harris would have such an advantage in a gubernatorial race based on name recognition alone that I think her presence would dissuade serious, non-desperate challengers (apologies to Katie Porter) like Becerra from running, or donors from backing them. I would guess Becerra took the donors’ temperature before announcing, many of whom likely gave to both his and Harris’s prior statewide campaigns.”