Kamala is not only running for president, she’s using the assets from her past presidential campaign to launch her new one.
Last weekend, Harris’ team sent a promotional email about the book, “107 Days,” that was paid for by the Harris Victory Fund — a collaboration between her presidential campaign, the DNC and state Democratic parties.
The bottom of the email reads: “Paid for by Harris Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee authorized by Harris for President, the Democratic National Committee and the State Democratic Parties,” after which it lists dozens of states.
While the DNC does have a new chair, a lot of it is still staffed by Biden and Kamala people. Remember also that Kamala raised and (wasted) a ton of money, but kept on fundraising to pay off ‘campaign debts’. The fundraising went on unusually into 2025. The money supposedly was going to to go the DNC, but this suggests that much as with Hillary Clinton, the DNC remains a ‘pass through’ for a particular presidential candidate.
It also means that no matter how bad of a candidate Kamala seems, if she has the backing of the party operation, she can’t lose. If you doubt that, remember such stellar previous nominees like Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and… well… Kamala whom no sane handicapper would believe could win based on their personalities and campaign appeal alone.
All of this means that Kamala’s candidacy may prove to be almost as hard for Dems to stop in 2028 as it was in 2024.
And, as I discuss in today’s article, Racism Made Kamala the Candidate and Cost Dems the White House, one key factor that helped rig her nomination in 2024 is still present.
Even as the fallout grew from Biden’s debate performance, ‘Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House‘ revealed that Congressional Black Caucus members “laid down a marker: if Biden exited the race, they would accept no option other than Vice President Kamala Harris”.
Racial tensions exploded among Democrat insiders right after the debate. “I watched the black-white stuff start on Thursday night,” an elected official recalled.
At a private chat, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the first ranking House Democrat and Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third ranking House Democrat, “had watched next-generation white governors lay the groundwork to battle Harris for the nomination” and agreed that, “they would not let their party skip over the first Black woman vice president, not without a fight.”
Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile and other black Democrats who had been helping the campaign with black turnout began lobbying delegates to back Kamala even before Biden dropped out. “We’re not going to let anyone skip over the VP,” Brazile had warned.
Will they be more willing to skip over a black woman this time around? If the Dems want to avoid Kamala, they’re going to frantically have to find another black woman. Or a black trans man. Anyone moderately competent, able form a coherent sentence and less off-putting than Kamala.