VP Kamala Harris answering a reporter's question on her Prop. 36 vote. (Photo: CSPAN X post)
‘I’m Not Going Anywhere’: Former VP Harris Vows to Stay Politically Active in Dana Point Speech
Harris has yet to confirm if she will be running for Governor or President next
By Evan Symon, April 4, 2025 3:15 pm
Former Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance at the Leading Women Defined Conference in Dana Point on Thursday, giving an eight minute speech in which she confirmed that she is staying in politics.
Harris, who has remained relatively quiet since leaving the Vice Presidency in January, said that while she ‘isn’t going anywhere’, didn’t give clarity as to whether she was looking at a 2026 gubernatorial run or a 2028 presidential run. Aides and close friends have hinted at both in the past several months, with Harris herself only saying that her decision on running for Governor would come by the end of the summer.
“We can’t go out there and do battle if we don’t take care of ourselves and each other,” said Harris at the Summit. “I’ll see you out there. I’m not going anywhere.”
Harris also went after President Donald Trump at the conference, all the while avoiding saying his name.
“Have the courage to say ‘I feel fear’,” added Harris. “Have the courage to say ‘What is happening right now is wrong’. The courage to say that ‘There is a way that we must chart to get through this’. Understanding the power in this democracy that we still have if we hold onto it. Courage is contagious.
“There were many things that we knew would happen, many things. I’m not here to say, ‘I told you so.’ I swore I wasn’t going to say that!”
Polls have shown that Harris is the strong favorite among potential and declared candidates. A November IGS poll, which was the first to include Harris, found that she was at the top of the poll by a huge margin. According to the poll, 46% of all voters in California said they would support her gubernatorial bid on some level, with 72% of Democrats saying that they would be very likely or somewhat likely to consider Harris for governor. A February Emerson College poll confirmed that she was still out ahead as the favorite candidate amongst registered Democratic voters, beating out all other candidates with 57% of the vote. In both polls, former Congresswoman Katie Porter, who has also yet to officially declare a gubernatorial run, was a distant second.
However, her support hasn’t been totally rock solid. Republicans and some Democrats in the state have already come out strongly against her running for Governor, with many political insiders saying that they would be “shocked” if she launched a campaign for Governor. Recent polling hasn’t been kind either. In a Lost Coast Outpost poll last month, Porter’s then-recent announcement of running for Governor gave her the momentum to push 5 points ahead of Harris.
Should Harris declare her candidacy for Governor, she would be joining one of the most crowded gubernatorial primaries ever, with seven other Democrats with prior elected experience alone already declared as candidates. This includes Porter, Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis, former California Attorney General and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, Senator Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), Former State Controller Betty Yee, and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Diamond Resorts founder Stephen Cloobeck. In addition, Republicans have a few major candidates in the race so far as well, including Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.
But the pool would also drastically shift should she enter. Both Porter and Kounalakis have said that they would drop out of the race should Harris enter, while many Republicans, like Special Presidential Envoy and former Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell, have said that they would enter the race should she run.
After Harris’ speech on Thursday, much is left in the air with the question of what she will be running for being left unresolved. But one thing is clear after the speech: she isn’t exiting public spotlight or the political arena anytime soon.
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Please, Please! Stay in politics. No one personifies the brain dead wokeness better than Kackala. She is a Conservatives best friend.
Listen to that word salad that only cackling Kamala could give? She and Tampon Tim need to run in the next presidential election and push the woke trans agenda harder next time.
From The Gateway Pundit:
Some leftists have become so triggered by President Trump that even his innocuous words are considered by them to be hate speech. Chris Whipple, the author of “Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History,” revealed one behind-the-scenes incident that will have conservatives in stitches. It concerns Harris’s concession call to President Trump following her landslide defeat.
As The Daily Mail notes, after her aides botched the call transfer the day after the election, Harris got on the phone and spoke to Trump. Whipple wrote in his book, which is out on April 8th, that Harris “respectfully” addressed Trump after she had referred to as a fascist and an “existential threat” to America and democracy just days prior. Harris also repeatedly smeared Trump as a racist bigot throughout the campaign as well.
The author further noted she was cordial despite feeling “the weight of the crushing defeat.” Sad!
Trump responded with pure class, praising her for running a tough campaign and complementing her husband, Doug.
“You’re a tough cookie. You were really great. And that Doug – what a character! I love that guy,” Trump said.
While every sensible person would find this statement magnanimous, one of Harris’s woke aides took severe offense.
“I was like, what?” she whined, according to Whipple. “Honestly, I felt like, what is this?
“It’s so manipulative,” she added. “He’s a sociopath.”
If President Trump is a so-called “sociopath,” then what does that make Harris, who happily allowed Democratic Party bigwigs to remove Biden in a sleazy coup so that she could take his rightful place atop the ticket? She also brazenly stole from several sources including Wikipedia to write a book called “Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer” during the campaign for California Attorney General back in 2010.
And would it surprise anyone if Harris turned out to be an active participant in said coup against Biden?
(https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/revealed-here-is-what-president-trump-told-kamala/)
Wow. (!!)
“According to the poll, 46% of all voters in California said they would support her gubernatorial bid on some level”
This is why I am bearish on California for at least the short term. The voters are just plain dumb. This is confirmed by the huge number of California cities that voters voted to increase their sales tax in the last election. They complain about the price of eggs, but then vote for a sales tax increase on everything else. These are the people who go through life without ever having a positive net worth.
I hope the next generation is smarter than this one.
I wouldn’t put too much trust in the IGS/Berkely poll. I’m sure the 46 number is incorrect. It may have been arrived at by oversampling Democrats, the type of questions asked and how they are asked, for example, or some other trick that helps them push a perception of popularity that Kamala does not actually have. This is not new, this pushing of questionable poll numbers in hopes of achieving a voter bandwagon effect, so beware.
Also plenty of evidence shows that our elections in CA are not yet fair or clean.
Let’s hope they are soon.
I would not be too sure. 30% of California adults are on one welfare dole or another, so count their ballots solid. Then the illegals and their absentee or provisional ballots accidentally getting voted. Many voters gladly give ballot harvesters unsealed ballots to finish if they only voted down ticket races because they don’t know who from who. And the millions of ballots sent to “Last Known Address” sitting around in God only knows where are crying out for mischief. The idea of a Republican takeover is all tooth and no fairy.
Curious, just exactly what has Kamala done to improve the health and wealth of American citizens? What are her accomplishments? Has she unified this country? Has she protected the underserved? Did she protect the sanctity of life especially the voiceless?
IMO, she has accomplished nothing! She has no record to stand on.
Heck, most people have no idea what she is even trying to communicate other than, “ORANGE MAN BAD!”
Maybe try running for President of your Homeowners Association, and contain the damage, please???
If California elections are cleaned up, Kamala isn’t going to be governor. If they aren’t then meet your new governor.