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Kamala Harris Was So Bad, Democrats Don’t Want Her to Run Again
Life News ^ | August 26, 2025 | Ireland Owens

Posted on 08/27/2025 9:54:22 AM PDT by Morgana

The majority of California Democrats do not want former Vice President Kamala Harris to make another White House run in 2028, according to a UC Berkeley/Los Angeles Times poll released Tuesday.

Almost two-thirds of registered voters in California and 51% of Democrats said Harris should not seek the presidency again following her two failed White House bids in 2020 and 2024, according to the survey. Meanwhile, roughly 45% of California’s registered voters said they were “very” or “somewhat” enthusiastic about the prospect of Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom running for president, while 36% said the same about Harris.

“She [Harris] lost, which is always a negative when you’re trying to run again,” Mark DiCamillo, director of the poll, which was conducted by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and co-sponsored by the LA Times, told the outlet. “It’s interesting that even after Harris bowed out of the governor’s race, most Californians don’t really think she should run for president.”

The poll found that nearly 4 in 10 registered voters said they felt uncertain about which candidate they will back in California’s 2026 gubernatorial race. Former California Democratic Rep. Katie Porter received 17% support, while Republican Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco was the only other contender in the state’s gubernatorial race who won double-digit support, notching 10% support, according to the poll.

“It’s very unsettled. Most of the voters, the plurality in this poll, are undecided,” DiCamillo told the LA Times. “They don’t really know much about the candidates.”

When respondents were asked to rank their top two picks in the race for California’s governor’s mansion, Porter notched 22% as the first or second choice, former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra won 18%, Bianco secured 15% and former Fox News host Steve Hilton received 12%, according to the survey.

California notably conducts all-party primaries for statewide races — with the top two candidates regardless of partisan affiliation advancing to the general election.

“It’s pretty wide-open,” DiCamillo told the LA Times. “And when you look at the second-choice preference, first and second together, it’s bunched together.”

In late July, Harris announced she was passing on a run in California’s upcoming gubernatorial race, further fueling speculation that she is planning to step into the 2028 White House race. A Politico-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab pollreleased Aug. 20 found that Democrats in California would prefer Newsom over Harris in a hypothetical 2028 presidential primary contest featuring both Democrats.

Democratic Delaware Sen. Chris Coons evaded a question on July 30 when Fox News host Martha MacCallum asked him if he would support Harris if she intended to launch a third consecutive presidential bid in 2028. Additionally, radio host Charlamagne tha God appeared to be somewhat unenthused about the prospect of Harris seeking the presidency again in 2028 during a July 31 episode of his radio show, “The Breakfast Club.”

The Berkeley IGS poll surveyed 4,950 California registered voters online in English and Spanish from Aug. 11 to 17. The results are estimated to have a margin of error of 2 percentage points in either direction in the overall sample, and larger numbers for subgroups.

Harris’ office did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.


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1 posted on 08/27/2025 9:54:22 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Why do California Democrats want to threaten democracy and disenfranchise voters? I want to vote for her in the open primary here in Virginia.


2 posted on 08/27/2025 10:00:43 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Morgana

And to think, just one year ago, all the MSM talk was about how “brat” Kamala was.


3 posted on 08/27/2025 10:03:39 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Morgana

People in the future are going to look back in wonder and marvel at just how in the world she ever managed to get as high up as she did. She’s quite arguably the most successful “upward failer” in human history!


4 posted on 08/27/2025 10:04:52 AM PDT by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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To: Morgana

This came out one year ago today. My how the mighty have fallen.

5 posted on 08/27/2025 10:06:08 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Morgana

No democrat is fit to run,


6 posted on 08/27/2025 10:10:52 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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“And when you look at the second-choice preference, first and second together, it’s bunched together.”

So, when you bunch together the first and second choices, they end up bunched together.

I know why these guys are losing.

7 posted on 08/27/2025 10:14:45 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Society has no reward for following the rules any more)
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To: Morgana

In hindsight, Biden and Harris were the best two things that happened to the GOP in a long time. They were so incompetent, so corrupt, so stupid that even millions of Dem voters throughout the nation couldn’t deny the obvious and have changed their party affiliation to the GOP.


8 posted on 08/27/2025 10:15:34 AM PDT by Signalman (When your enemy is digging himself a hole, don't take away his shovel.)
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To: jpl
wonder and marvel at just how in the world she ever managed to get as high up as she did

Just check out the boxed wine sales increases wherever she has spent time.

9 posted on 08/27/2025 10:16:29 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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To: Morgana

She needs to go home and tryout for Mayor in Kingston.


10 posted on 08/27/2025 10:16:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Vanity Fair. The Official Rag of Far-Left Liberal HATE!)
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To: Morgana

If she was so bad that fellow party members and supporting organizations are saying this, then the only explanation from where she got 48.3% of the popular vote is the stupidity of the liberals.

wy69


11 posted on 08/27/2025 10:22:40 AM PDT by whitney69
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Time cover....

It really seems much longer than a year ago, doesn’t it?

Part of the present becoming the past that we all need to become unburdened with because unburdening release the past’s burdens. Or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8xwaD_mP7I


12 posted on 08/27/2025 10:43:22 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It was her moment to crash and burn.


13 posted on 08/27/2025 10:45:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Morgana

A more fitting headline for today’s doubling-down-on-stupid rats: Kamala Harris Was So Bad, Democrats Want Her to Run Again


14 posted on 08/27/2025 10:52:18 AM PDT by KingLudd
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To: Morgana

The Democrats don’t seem to have anyone to carry the torch for their party anymore ... maybe it’s time to resurrect Howdy Doody ... or maybe Clarabell or even Flub-a-Dub ... oh wait ... Flub-a-dub already ran for the Democratic Presidency in 2024 didn’t she?


15 posted on 08/27/2025 11:01:39 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Morgana

I hope she runs, so that the democrats spend a fortune in their primaries.


16 posted on 08/27/2025 11:23:01 AM PDT by Preachin' (I stand with many voters who will never vote for a pro abortion candidate.)
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To: Morgana
The Democrats have never nominated someone who lost an earlier election since 1956 (Adlai Stevenson)...not even candidates who lost narrowly like Gore or Kerry.

But to show that they are not avoiding Kamala because of racism, they need to nominate another black woman next time--Stacey Abrams, Jasmine Crockett, or Fani Willis. They have quite a lot of potential candidates.

17 posted on 08/27/2025 11:45:58 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Morgana

They didn’t want her in the first place. Her primary popularity was next to nothing. She was forced upon them by a party that didn’t care what the people wanted or didn’t want.


18 posted on 08/27/2025 11:51:32 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Morgana

Kamala Harris or any other name the democrats select it’s always the same result.


19 posted on 08/27/2025 12:32:22 PM PDT by Vaduz
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Kamala addressing a crowd: That you, Hahahahahaha cackle cackle. Thank you all for being here, Hahahahaha cackle cackle. Wow, I feel more like I do now than I did before I got here! Hahahahaha cackle cackle................ just think, if I wasn’t here right at this moment, Hahahahaha cackle cackle, I’d be somewhere else. Hahahahaha cackle cackle...............


20 posted on 08/27/2025 12:37:08 PM PDT by drypowder
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