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Kamala ’28 Falls in the Forest

Revealing new poll numbers on the next (celebrity?) iteration of counter-Trump politics, and what Democrats want for Harris’s future.

Kamala Harris
Harris’s political future is set to be one of the Democratic Party’s main storylines in the coming year. As I wrote last week, Harris, back home in Los Angeles, is deciding whether to run for president again in 2028, or seek the California governorship in 2026. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
Peter Hamby
February 19, 2025

Bear with me for a moment while I do a little Tom Friedman impersonation. I was at my local barbershop the other day in Los Angeles—Latino-owned, suitably hip, mostly staffed by millennial Trump haters who also think Democrats are corny—being interrogated about the current state of American politics, against my will. “Who can beat Donald Trump?” I was asked. I turned the question around, stuck in my swivel chair, reminding them that Trump (we hope) isn’t up for a third term in 2028. “Well, who do you guys like?”