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Kamala Harris has said that she currently has no desire to re-enter “the system” of American politics because it is “broken”.

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

After she announced she will not run for the governorship of California just a day earlier, Harris told the TV show that it was about something more “basic” than whether she wanted to run for something else instead – with the subtext being whether she will attempt a White House run again in 2028.

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Notably absent from the DNC chair's comments are two big things Mamdani didn't do, which centrist Democrats are doing in spades. Namely, throwing both Palestinians and trans folks under the bus. Mamdani showed that you don't win power by betraying vulnerable minority groups. The DNC has to still learn that lesson.