"Pretty clearly, the former vice president and "more than two dozen current and past advisers and others close to her" interviewed by the Times' Shane Goldmacher think she's earned some time to reflect and recover from a tumultuous 2024 campaign year before plotting any future steps (other than the decision she's already made not to run for Governor of California in 2026)."
"Without question, she deserves as much time out of the spotlight as she wants. It's less clear she's entitled to drag us all back through the ordeal all Democrats shared with her last year in a too-soon memoir of the campaign, which she recently reemerged to flog. That book has reopened a lot of relatively fresh wounds, while adding fuel to the perpetual "struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party" that ideologues, pundits, and the opposition remain hopelessly infatuated with."
Kamala Harris was long regarded as a future face of the Democratic Party but is now described as a figure of its past. Many close advisers believe she should take time to reflect and recover after a tumultuous 2024 campaign. She has decided not to run for Governor of California in 2026. A recently released memoir has reopened fresh wounds and intensified the party's internal struggle for its soul. She has shared impressions of the Biden-to-Harris transition but appears not to have absorbed lessons about campaign mistakes or offered distinctive ideas for the party's path forward.
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