Kamala Harris faces Democratic doubts over 2028 as allies push back on claims she’s squandered her chance
As former Vice President Kamala Harris weighs another White House run in 2028, a longtime advisor is firing back at Democratic strategists and donors who argue she has squandered an...
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As former Vice President Kamala Harris weighs another White House run in 2028, a longtime advisor is firing back at Democratic strategists and donors who argue she has squandered an opportunity to politically reinvent herself following her 2024 election defeat. Veteran Democratic strategist Maria Cardona, an outside advisor to Harris, pushed back against the criticism highlighted in a new Politico report, defending Harris' policy proposals and campaign activity as Democrats debate whether the former vice president deserves another shot at the White House. Cardona argued the story was "infuriating in its silliness." The report, based on interviews with nearly 20 California-based Democratic donors and strategists, highlighted growing skepticism among some party insiders about Harris' political future and whether she has done enough to distinguish herself from her unsuccessful 2024 campaign. Longtime Democratic strategist Doug Herman, a veteran of former President Barack Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, told Politico that Harris "totally blew it... She hasn’t gotten into the mix." AOC GIVES MAJOR HINT ABOUT 2028 Former Gov. Jim Hodges of South Carolina, the lead off state in the Democratic Party's 2028 presidential nominating calendar, told Politico , "I don’t see anything different myself. It seems like more of the same to me." But Cardona, a veteran of the Bill Clinton administration, the Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama presidential campaigns who currently serves as a member of the Democratic National Committee, disagreed that Harris had failed to spell out what she would offer Democrats anxious for change. "How can you state that she hasn’t done anything new or groundbreaking or talked about new initiatives or policies and then layout exactly those policies - like proposing an expanded Supreme Court, lowering the voting age to 16, making DC and Puerto Rico states. Those are pretty groundbreaking policies!" Cardona told Fox News Digital, as she pointed to some of H…