'I am not done': Kamala Harris hints at running for president again, calls Trump a 'tyrant'

Former US Vice President Kamala Harris said that she is not done with American politics, hinting that she is considering another bid for the presidency. In an interview with the BBC, scheduled to air on Sunday, Harris said that she would “possibly” be the next president, making the clearest suggestion to date that she would make another run for the White House in 2028.

However, Harris’s proclamation on the matter is coming at a time when she is lagging far behind in the polls. The former American VP insisted that she had not yet made a final decision, but expressed her confidence that America would eventually have a woman in the White House. “I am not done,” the former vice-president told the BBC. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones.”

Harris went on to dismiss polls that place her as an outsider to win a place on the Democratic ticket. She is currently ranking behind even Hollywood actor Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson. “If I listened to polls, I would not have run for my first office, or my second office – and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here,” she said.

Harris slams Trump

In the Sunday interview, Harris said that the warnings she made during her campaign trail against the current US President Donald Trump had been proved right, claiming that the American leader has been behaving as a fascist and authoritarian. She went on to lambast her former Republican rival as a “tyrant” with “thin skin” who is weaponising the justice system.

Harris pointed to the brief suspension of late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel by ABC after he joked about Republican reaction to the killing of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk. It is pertinent to note that Kimmel’s ousting was celebrated by Trump and came after a Trump-appointed regulator threatened ABC.

“He said he would weaponise the Department of Justice – and he has done exactly that … His skin is so thin he couldn’t endure criticism from a joke, and attempted to shut down an entire media organisation in the process,” she said. The former VP also slammed business leaders and institutions in the US, whom she accused of submitting to Trump’s tyrannical demands

“There are many … that have capitulated since day one, who are bending the knee at the foot of a tyrant, I believe, for many reasons, including they want to be next to power, because they want to perhaps have a merger approved or avoid an investigation," she averred.

When asked by the BBC about the interview, a White House spokesperson said: “When Kamala Harris lost the election in a landslide, she should’ve taken the hint – the American people don’t care about her absurd lies.” It is pertinent to note that Harris is on an international book tour promoting 107 Days, her account of her short 2024 presidential run, which began only after former US President Joe Biden withdrew from the race following months of speculation about his cognitive decline.