Kamala Harris, in her first post-2024 election interview, explained her decision to forgo a run for governor of California and, for the time being, elective politics altogether.
“I just, for now, I don’t want to go back into the system,” Harris told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show. “I think it’s broken.”
While she said that there’s “so many good people who are public servants, who do such good work, teachers and firefighters and police officers and nurses and scientists,” Harris said, “I always believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles. And I think right now that they’re not as strong as they need to be, and I just don’t want to for now. I don’t want to go back in the system. I want to travel the country. I want to listen to people, and I don’t want it to be transactional, where I’m asking for their vote.”
Harris announced on Wednesday that she would not run, saying that she would not enter elective politics for now. Her statement did not rule out a 2028 presidential run.
