Kamala Harris says she’s 'not done' and hints at 2028 presidential run

LONDON, UK: Former Vice President Kamala Harris has said that she may run for the White House again in 2028. This marks her strongest suggestion yet that she intends to return to presidential politics.

Speaking to the BBC’s 'Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg' on October 25, in her first UK interview, Harris said that she could be president one day and expressed confidence that America would soon see a woman in the Oval Office.

Asked if that woman might be her, she replied, “Possibly.” 

Harris disregards the polls

Kamala Harris said in the interview that she hasn’t made a formal decision but emphasized that she still sees a role for herself in public life.

“I am not done,” she said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it's in my bones.”

Polls currently show Harris as an outsider for the Democratic nomination, trailing behind prominent governors but she waved off the numbers.

“If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office - and I certainly wouldn't be sitting here,” Harris said, recalling her past political battles.

Her new book, '107 Days', details the brief but turbulent campaign she ran after President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race amid questions about his health.

It also details her subsequent loss to Donald Trump.

Harris calls Trump a ‘tyrant’ 

Kamala Harris used the interview to unleash sharp criticism of Trump, reportedly calling him a “tyrant” and saying her predictions about his authoritarian behavior had come true.

“He said he would weaponize the Department of Justice and he has done exactly that,” she said, citing Trump’s alleged targeting of political critics and media figures.

She also pointed to the recent suspension of comedian Jimmy Kimmel after a Trump-appointed regulator allegedly pressured his network over a joke about late conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

"His skin is so thin he couldn’t endure criticism from a joke, and attempted to shut down an entire media organization in the process," Harris said. 

Harris accuses business leaders of ‘bending the knee’

Harris accused some US business leaders and institutions of capitulating to Trump’s demands out of self-interest.

“There are many… that have capitulated since day one, who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant, I believe for many reasons, including they want to be next to power, because they want to perhaps have a merger approved or avoid an investigation,” she said.

The White House dismissed her remarks, with spokeswoman Abigail Jackson saying, “When Kamala Harris lost the election in a landslide, she should’ve taken the hint. The American people don’t care about her absurd lies.”

Kamala Harris reflects on the 2024 campaign and her future role 

In the interview, Harris reflected on her short 2024 campaign and the unanswered question of whether she might have beaten Trump had Biden withdrawn earlier.

She declined to speculate, but it remains one of the great unknowables in politics yet.

But her tone and remarks allegedly made it clear that her political ambitions are far from over and that she still sees herself as a future contender for the presidency.

Harris said that her grandnieces will "in their lifetime, for sure" see a woman president.