‘Thinking About It’: Kamala Harris Teases 2028 Presidential Run

Kamala Harris, former vice president and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, hinted at a third presidential run during the National Action Network conference in New York City on Friday.

“Listen, I might,” Harris said. “I’m thinking about it.”

Reverend Al Sharpton asked Harris point blank if she would run in 2028. Her response represents her most direct comment yet regarding a potential run in the next presidential cycle.

“Let me also say this, I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States … I know what the job is, and I know what it requires,” Harris said. The crowd erupted, chanting “run again.”

A 2026 poll from the Center Square found that Harris remains a potential frontrunner in the 2028 presidential race. Thirty-one percent of Democrats and left-leaning independents said they would vote for Harris if the Democratic presidential primary were held today. Eighteen percent said they were unsure, while another 16 percent said they would support California Governor Gavin Newsom.

In October, Harris told the BBC she would “possibly” run for president in the future.

Harris became the Democratic nominee in 2024 after former President Joe Biden dropped out of the race less than four months before Election Day. He made the decision to end his reelection bid after a poor debate performance against President Trump prompted concerns among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle about the octogenarian president’s mental acuity. Biden ultimately endorsed Harris as his replacement.

Biden previously chose Harris as his running mate in 2020 after having vowed to pick a female vice president during a March 2020 presidential debate. Harris’s own 2020 presidential bid had drawn to a close before the first primary contest was even held. Her failure to earn even a single delegate in 2020 proved to be controversial for her when she took over the ticket in 2024, with critics noting no one voted for her in the previous cycle.

In Friday’s interview with Sharpton, Harris was quick to criticize Trump and the current conflict in Iran.

“So [Trump] enters into this war, a war of choice,” Harris said to Sharpton. “Remember, the man said he got rid of their nuclear arsenal, obliterated it. He said — you know how he likes to use those kinds of words, obliterated it, which is not an ambiguous term, that means you took it out — well, evidently, he didn’t do that.”

She said Trump’s choices to engage in the conflict overseas directly caused American service members’ deaths. She also took the opportunity to contrast Trump’s foreign policy with her and Biden’s. In press after the 2024 general election, however, Harris was notably critical of Biden and his choices, trying to separate herself from the former president.

“And the American citizens will always pay for war,” Harris said. “And I heard friends in the room say he lied. He lied. He told the American people on Day 1 he was going to bring down prices and costs and he lied.”