{"id":110835,"date":"2025-08-01T17:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110835\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:40:09","slug":"kamala-harris-says-she-doesnt-plan-to-return-to-broken-system-of-us-politics-kamala-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/110835\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris says she doesn\u2019t plan to return to \u2018broken\u2019 system of US politics | Kamala Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kamala Harris<\/a> has said that she currently has no desire to re-enter \u201cthe system\u201d of American politics because it is \u201cbroken\u201d.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night the Democratic party\u2019s defeated presidential nominee, who replaced Joe Biden late in the 2024 campaign after he dropped<\/a> his re-election bid, gave her first interview since losing the election to Donald Trump<\/a>, talking to Stephen Colbert<\/a> on The Late Show.<\/p>\n

After she announced she will not run<\/a> for the governorship of California just a day earlier, Harris told the TV show that it was about something more \u201cbasic\u201d than whether she wanted to run for something else instead \u2013 with the subtext being whether she will attempt a White House run again in 2028.<\/p>\n

\u201cRecently I made the decision that I just \u2013 for now \u2013 I don\u2019t want to go back in the system. I think it\u2019s broken,\u201d she said<\/a>, provoking a collective groan from the studio audience. Colbert later returned to the subject, saying that her remark was harrowing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, but it\u2019s also evident, isn\u2019t it?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Describing herself as a \u201cdevout public servant\u201d, the former vice-president added: \u201cI 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\u2019re not as strong as they need to be. And for now I don\u2019t want to go back into that system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris\u2019s choice of The Late Show as the channel for her first post-election defeat interview was pointed. The most-watched talkshow was cancelled last month<\/a> by the CBS network, which pleaded financial stress, though the decision was widely denounced as being politically motivated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cancellation was announced after Colbert had criticized<\/a> CBS and its parent company Paramount Global for reaching a $16m settlement<\/a> with Trump. The president had sued CBS News over an interview on the 60 Minutes show with Harris at the height of last year\u2019s presidential campaign, which Trump claimed had been manipulated in her favour.<\/p>\n

None of this febrile back story was mentioned by either Colbert or Harris on Thursday. But she did delivery a passionate lament for the numbers of people who she said had \u201ccapitulated\u201d to the aggressive second Trump administration.<\/p>\n

When Colbert invited her to say \u201cI told you so\u201d after she had predicted many of Trump\u2019s most contentious moves \u2013 including Medicaid cuts<\/a>, ignoring court orders<\/a>, and \u201cmassive tax cuts to the rich<\/a>\u201d \u2013 she replied: \u201cBut Stephen, what I did not predict was the capitulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

She went on: \u201cPerhaps it\u2019s naive of me \u2026 there should be many who consider themselves to be guardians of our system and our democracy who just capitulated, and I didn\u2019t see that coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

The timing of the interview was also poignant, as she was considered to be the automatic frontrunner if she had decided to run to become the next governor of California.<\/p>\n

Her wider remarks on \u201cthe system\u201d help explain that decision, though they still notably left room for another possible presidential run. In the meantime, Harris has a book to sell, 107 Days<\/a>, which she name-checked copiously on the Late Show in advance of its publication next month.<\/p>\n

The book, as its title suggests, relates the story of the shortest presidential run of all time. She said it would give a \u201cbehind-the-scenes sharing\u201d of those intense days.<\/p>\n

Whether it is to sell the book or to lay the foundations for another presidential bid remains a moot point, but Harris said she wanted to use the next period to \u201ctravel the country and listen to people. I don\u2019t want it to be transactional, where I\u2019m asking for their vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harris admitted that it had taken her months following her defeat before she had the strength to tune into the news again. \u201cYou know, I\u2019m just not into self-mutilation,\u201d she said. Instead there had been \u201clots of cooking shows\u201d, her top choice being The Kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris has said that she currently has no desire to re-enter \u201cthe system\u201d of American politics because…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-110835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114954739769445906","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}