After her spectacular 2024 defeat, Kamala should normally have been retired by her party. Instead she instantly became a presidential front-runner because her party blamed her defeat on Biden. Not her. And while Biden had a few things to do with it, she was the one who actually ran a terrible campaign on her terrible record and lost.
Kamala had 3 career options
- Run for California governor
- Run for president in 2028
- Just coast on her name and do corporate speeches
The problem was that combining 1 and 2 was nearly impossible due to timing. Now Kamala has made it official and announced that she won’t run for governor because she wants to spend more time with her chardonnay collection. Or whatever nonsense pols put in their press releases.
With 1. off the table, the likeliest option is 2. Kamala had the governorship wide open and turned it down. California Dems would mostly have stepped out of her way to let her have it. So now it’s done to 2 and 3. Her party certainly hopes it’s 3 and have no doubt put together an attractive package of hanging around and doing nothing but spewing word salads.
But Kamala always wanted the White House. She wanted to be the next Obama. And now the Dems have to figure out how to stop her.