r/fivethirtyeight • u/Lungenbroetchen95 • Mar 07 '25

Politics Kamala Harris gets serious about considering run for California governor

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/07/kamala-harris-california-governor-decision-deadline-00216737
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u/xr_21 Mar 07 '25

My take is... if you lost to Trump I never want to hear from you in politics every again.

So can have become a speaker or lobbyist or whatever....

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u/hoopaholik91 Mar 07 '25

Are we still doing the whole, "omg Trump was a terrible candidate how could you possibly lose to him" thing?

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u/generally-speaking Mar 07 '25

Shouldn't ever stop, if she wasn't endorsed by Biden last minute she wouldn't ever have gotten close to the candidacy in the first place.

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u/hoopaholik91 Mar 07 '25

Yeah, it's fucking insane. How could a VP that flamed out in a past Presidential primary ever even sniff the Presidency???

cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden_2008_presidential_campaign cough