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.
Reagan won 49 out of 50 states at the hight of his popularity. His opponent Mondale won his home state of Minnesota, making it the only state with a history of continually voting Democrat for presidency back beyond 1988.
It is not hard to believe that trump swept the swing states, politics is much less regional and more national than it was in Reagan’s era.