Ending months of speculation, former Vice President Kamala Harris announced Wednesday she will not run for governor of California, leaving the gubernatorial race wide open and immediately fueling speculation about whether she might again seek the presidency in 2028.
Harris said earlier this year she was considering a gubernatorial bid but wanted to take time to weigh the decision. In a statement Wednesday, the Brentwood resident said that while “I love this state, its people and its promise,” she will not throw her hat in the ring.
“For now, my leadership — and public service — will not be in elected office,” Harris said. “I look forward to getting back out and listening to the American people, helping elect Democrats across the nation who will fight fearlessly, and sharing more details in the months ahead about my own plans.
“In the United States of America, power must lie with the people. And We, the People must use our power to fight for freedom, opportunity, fairness, and the dignity of all. I will remain in that fight.”
She did not give a specific reasoning behind her decision, but said, “I have extraordinary admiration and respect for those who dedicate their lives to public service — service to their communities and to our nation. At the same time, we must recognize that our politics, our government, and our institutions have too often failed the American people, culminating in this moment of crisis. As we look ahead, we must be willing to pursue change through new methods and fresh thinking — committed to our same values and principles, but not bound by the same playbook.”
Harris’ announcement immediately fueled online speculation about a possible 2028 presidential bid. After serving as vice president under President Joe Biden, Harris lost her 2024 presidential run to now-President Donald Trump.
Harris also ran for the presidency in 2020, but withdrew from the race relatively early, later being tabbed by Biden as his running mate.
Two Republicans — Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco and former Fox News host Steve Hilton — have already announced a 2026 bid for the governor’s office. A host of Democrats have also joined the race — former congressman and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, former Orange County Rep. Katie Porter, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, state schools chief Tony Thurmond, former Controller Betty Yee, former state Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins and entrepreneur Stephen Cloobeck.
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Long Beach, reacted to Harris’ announcement, writing on X, “Kamala Harris has served our state as attorney general, U.S. Senator, and vice president. We could not be more grateful. Excited about her hitting the road and traveling the country to help us flip the House and win back Congress. Let’s go!”
Mayor Karen Bass, also a Democrat, also praised Harris.
“The vice president has always made our city and our state proud and there is no doubt in my mind that whatever she does next will be rooted in service for the people,” Bass wrote on social media.
Kollin Crompton of the Republican Governors Association said Wednesday’s announcement means Harris’ “political career is over thanks to President Trump.”
“She would have been a disaster for California: tanking the state’s economy even further, protecting criminal illegal immigrants over law-abiding citizens, and further bringing the Democrat Party brand down with her, just like she did as vice president,” Crompton said. “Americans across the country can sigh in relief that they won’t have to see or hear from Kamala Harris any longer.”
Bianco issued a statement calling Harris’ decision “the first right decision in a career full of wrong ones.”
“Californians are tired of living in an unsafe state they cannot afford, and Kamala seems to understand that the status quo is impossible to defend,” he said. “We need real leadership — grounded in public safety, common sense, and accountability — not more empty promises from the political elite. I*m running to fix what they broke.”
Some Democratic gubernatorial contenders, however, were predictably more supportive.
“Kamala Harris is a focused leader and I’m proud of the work we accomplished together on consumer protections during the housing crisis and grateful for her service to California and our country,” Porter said in a statement. “I look forward to seeing her next accomplishments and continuing our work together.”
Becerra said, “The vice president and I have been together in this fight to restore the American Dream for a long time — from when I succeeded her as California attorney general to when we served side by side in the president’s Cabinet. She has always put working families first, and she continues to be a trailblazing leader in our country and for our party.”
Thank God she is not running for governor CA. She did enough damage in CA and the whole country. Soros, Obama Biden, Brown, Harris and Waltz were puppet for Chinese Communism in CA and the USA. Harris. Open border doesn’t work. We have been invaded by Chinese Communism.
How there’s no Chinese communist because we’re all THIRD REICH COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERICA. THE SMOKE SCREEN COUNTRY FOR ADOLF HITLER.
SINCE MY WHOLE FAMILY DIED AT THE HAND OF THE FBI OF ORLANDO IT GIVES ME
“GRANDFATHER CLAUSE” !!!!
THE EGG TELLING THE HUMAN WHAT HIS LAW IS!
HATE GREED INCOMPETENCE STUPIDITY ARROGANTNESS
You have the uniform code & the code of ethnics that everybody violates..
Then I hear West Coast law group of California is paying these contractors to come out and do this stupid shit on a daily basis to me.
GPS should prove every bit of them stalking me for the last 3 years from Ventura boulevard at Cane’s restaurant opening over there. The one that showed me his ideas the one that tried to get me for a concealed weapon when his cocksucker in the pickup truck was in a Land Rover talking about how he had virtual land on the property.
These charges consist of FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED STALKING, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED INTIMIDATION, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED BRUTALITY, FEDERAL AGGRAVATED CORRUPTION, and FEDERAL AGGRAVATED GREED & FEDERAL AGGRAVATED HATATRED, EVENTUALLY AGGRAVATED TAKING A BRIBE ! IN EVERY OFFICER THERE’S AN OFFSHORE BANK ACCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD.
My perception says this is all due to Aryan brotherhood on the D block at San Mateo County Jail where all the murders and everything happened at. right under Christina Corpus deputy Lovejoy.
It’s like every cock sucking coward in the nation had to come out and cause as much shit as they could because they got to suck the man’s dick when they get there.
That’s the reason they have so many offshore bank accounts with everyone at that San Mateo County jail as well as the prison system as well and across the United States of America. Minimum 5 million to $500 billion and every offshore bank account cross the United States of America at every sheriff and police department fire department how everybody that was a celebrity is now dead and they paid every one of your corrupt trustees to go to work for you because how they were just to trainee.
Then you have this arrogant cop over here. On Sunday he comes over here and starts all this shit and has somebody called in from Santa Cruz to come down for an outreach program with a loaded fucking handgun under his goddamn arm both of them had loaded guns on him but yet they’re standing on fucking public property telling me where the fucking go right but when the sheriff’s department gets here they just let the motherfuckers run away right what an incompetent fucking agency. And this chief of police is HARBORING A FUGITIVE FROM JUSTICE ( WILLIAM MORRELL ) while working for the Department with him smoking His crack cocaine and drinking his whiskey. No clue about vehicular homicide as a drunk mother fucker driving his car with a loaded FIREARM as attempted murder right why your FEDUALLY AGGRAVATED BANK ARMED ROBBERY. Just to get to me on public land you have to go through a public Bank Shopping Center.
Where at in the law does it state that law enforcement has a right to invade in the public business areas doing business with the public we’re at in the law does it state that you have a right to invade in the public?
Then you have them go into Google and tell them that I can’t complain and can’t have a comment on any part of Google or anywhere on the fucking internet anymore because my public rights have been violated by this piece of shit. But this is the kind of education you give your law enforcement in the community right.
In my intuitiveness leads me to believe that the Bakersfield Police Department send some Yahoo’s down here and had your Yahoo in this fucking Community Chase my dick around the whole time because how I caught the Bakersfield Police Department chief of police buying crack cocaine from someone in the fucking City and put it on a video for the Bakersfield Police Department of you and they’ve never done anything but yet they could send these jackasses down here though.
There’s $75 million in a offshore bank account
There’s 75 million different reasons for him to come out here and do this stupid shit everyday
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