# Kamala should run for president again in 2028 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [December 18, 2024, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774 "2024-12-18T02:10:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/361 "2025-09-11T17:24:49Z")
Well but that’s virtually **every** VP’s problem unless it’s someone who already came in as a power player like LBJ or Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/362 "2025-09-11T17:42:57Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Well but that’s virtually **every** VP’s problem unless it’s someone who already came in as a power player like LBJ or Cheney You’re not wrong. However, in the case of Harris, it was pretty clear that when she was initially chosen as the running mate, it was, in part, to have a younger heir apparent to a president who would be 82 at the end of his first term; though Biden never publicly said nor promised that he would only serve one term, he did, in 2020, characterize himself as a “transition” figure, which implied (but did not overtly state) the idea of a one-term presidency: > [@](#): > > That “transition” line is important, because it’s one Biden himself used publicly and on the record. “I view myself as a transition candidate,” Biden [said at](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/politics/joe-biden-vice-president-pick.html) an online fundraiser in April 2020. In March of that year, at a rally where his eventual VP pick Kamala Harris was by his side, [he used](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/09/biden-reelection-transition-president/675395/) similar language: “I view myself as a bridge, not as anything else.” But, by 2021, Biden was already saying that he would run for re-election; it seems to me that any thought of positioning Harris as his successor, and crafting her role as VP to publicly demonstrate her having the experience for the role, went out the window by that point. [https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4718993-did-biden-break-his-one-term-pledge/](https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4718993-did-biden-break-his-one-term-pledge/) ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/363 "2025-09-11T17:54:58Z")
Biden’s running again was one of the greatest acts of political idiocy in American history. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2025, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/364 "2025-09-11T22:06:24Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I’m still convinced that had Biden announced in 2023 that he wasn’t running there would be no way she would have done any better than she did in 2020. As the incumbent vice-president, I’m confident she would have done much better in 2024 than she did in 2020 as a relative unknown. Would she have won? Who knows? People like Shapiro, Whitmer, Beshears, Pritzker, Booker, Cooper et al. would have joined the race. I sure do wish it went down that way, though. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/365 "2025-09-17T19:18:35Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Would she have won? Who knows? People like Shapiro, Whitmer, Beshears, Pritzker, Booker, Cooper et al. would have joined the race. I sure do wish it went down that way, though. True, at least there would have been a chance to put them (and their proposals) all to the test before choosing —and yes, he would have wanted to announce that by summer of 2023 to give everyone a fair head start for Iowa/NH in January of ‘24. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/366 "2025-09-18T18:12:53Z")
> [@Magniankh](#): > > Kamala was ok, but the Democratic party is overall extremely impotent. They can’t beat an overweight, orange, uneducated, narcissistic, entitled rich boy? They did in 2020. Remember, Right Wing Populism is sweeping the world, not just in the USA. It is very popular. > [@Procrustus](#): > > I don’t see much to blame her for. She did a good job. Blame the voters. Right. > [@Aeschines](#): > > Biden’s running again was one of the greatest acts of political idiocy in American history. The one man who beat trump? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/367 "2025-09-18T18:28:00Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > They did in 2020. They did, but on Earth-2, where there was never a COVID-19, they wouldn’t have. In other words: they beat Trump in 2020, not because they had an amazing candidate, or an amazing strategy, but because of a unique situation. Though the Trump administration’s response to COVID was a mess, that response wasn’t the reason he lost; it was that the economy had completely gone into the tank. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/368 "2025-09-23T16:14:30Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Kamala Harris: 107 Days, Her Book on the Election Campaign, is to be Published Sept. 23 And that is today–if anyone is interested in buying it. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/369 "2025-09-24T21:28:58Z")
Truman could have run anytime. The 22nd specifically exempted the president in office at the time of its’ adoption. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/370 "2025-09-27T05:38:45Z")
I was quite surprised in 2008 how few people remembered Geraldine Ferraro. > **[Geraldine Ferraro](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro)** > > Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1984 presidential election, running alongside Walter Mondale; this made her the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a major American political party.\[nb 1\] She was also a journalist, author, and businesswoman. > Ferraro grew up in ... ---
**Author:** ![Ancient\_Nerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@Ancient\_Nerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ancient_Nerd)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/371 "2025-09-28T18:18:08Z")
Sara Palin made a bigger splash but, her fifteen minutes seems to be over. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/372 "2025-10-25T22:25:31Z")
> **[Kamala Harris tells BBC she may run for president again](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2n7k2veywo)** > > The former US vice-president made her strongest suggestion to date she will make another bid for the White House And if she gets the nomination will she lose again? ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/373 "2025-10-26T01:32:32Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > And if she gets the nomination will she lose again? She starts out with her having been a loser uppermost in primary voters’ minds. So she would have to do much better than expected in primary season debates, and in head to head polling against Vance (or whoever is the GOP nomination front-runner) to turn her reputation around and get the nomination. Under those unlikely circumstances, she would have good chance of November success. I doubt she will get the nomination but see no harm in her trying. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/374 "2025-10-26T01:36:52Z")
It’s not like the Democratic field was already full of viable candidates. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/375 "2025-10-26T01:51:18Z")
That depends on who the Republican candidate is, ha ha. Because what’s his name can’t run anymore. Gulp. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/376 "2025-10-26T04:42:41Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > And if she gets the nomination will she lose again? Highly likely in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![Hatchie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hatchie/32/3983_2.png) [@Hatchie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hatchie)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/377 "2025-10-26T06:43:02Z")
Amy Klobuchar, Gretchen Whitman, both better choices. I would say Tim Walz, who’s more articulate but looks too much like an old fuddy duddy to catch fire in the preliminaries. Oh, I forgot, it’s too early. Also Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (don’t call her AOC, save that for after she’s elected) isn’t old enough to run (unfair!). ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/378 "2025-10-26T08:50:12Z")
I, too, am excited to try again to demonstrate for the third time that America will not elect a woman. It only cost us our country, no big deal. ---
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/379 "2025-10-26T09:33:16Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > That depends on who the Republican candidate is, ha ha. Because what’s his name can’t run anymore. Gulp. It’s almost certainly going to be JD Vance, and that’s bad news for the Democrats because Vance is sharp, comes across well on camera, and is a very strong debater. Yeah, he’s also a lying scumbag, but that doesn’t matter in elections. Only charisma matters. The Democrats need to nominate someone more charismatic than Vance. The only two I can think of offhand are Newsom and Buttigieg. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2025, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774/380 "2025-10-26T10:41:32Z")
> [@Hatchie](#): > > Also Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (don’t call her AOC, save that for after she’s elected) isn’t old enough to run (unfair!). I believe your math is off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774.md?page=18) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kamala-should-run-for-president-again-in-2028/1011774.md?page=20)