indicated<\/a> that she would take some time to assess her next steps, which included considering a run for governor of California or potentially another run for president in 2028.\n <\/p>\n\n Harris had loomed over the potential field in California as a heavy favorite, which still features several other prominent Democrats including former Rep. Katie Porter, former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra. The party is favored to hold the office in the deep-blue state.\n <\/p>\n
\n But Harris also faced skepticism from some home-state Democrats, concerned about baggage from her unsuccessful White House campaign and the potential drag across the state\u2019s battleground US House districts that could be pivotal in the midterms.\n <\/p>\n
\n Amid the drawn-out deliberations, Harris had reached out to former California governors to ask what she could get done on the job and asked aides for research and memos that outlined other options.\n <\/p>\n
\n Among those options: Starting a 501(c)(4) organization focused on the information ecosystem and how to empower younger voters while rethinking institutions key to democracy, creating a political action committee to raise money for other candidates, and doing a listening tour of Southern states with a 2028 presidential bid in mind.\n <\/p>\n
\n Harris wanted to make the decision about running before an expected fall book tour was announced. That announcement is coming soon.\n <\/p>\n
\n Her thinking, according to a person familiar with her deliberations, was that she would have time for all of these if she didn\u2019t run for governor.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cI have extraordinary admiration and respect for those who dedicate their lives to public service \u2014 service to their communities and to our nation,\u201d she said in her Wednesday statement. \u201cAt the same time, we must recognize that our politics, our government, and our institutions have too often failed the American people, culminating in this moment of crisis. As we look ahead, we must be willing to pursue change through new methods and fresh thinking \u2014 committed to our same values and principles, but not bound by the same playbook.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Two people who have spoken with Harris stressed that the announcement should not be taken as a definite sign she will run for president again.\n <\/p>\n
\n Harris made the decision announced Wednesday after returning from a trip to the United Kingdom last week for the wedding of the daughter of her friend and longtime donor Laurene Powell Jobs.\n <\/p>\n
\n For weeks, she had been giving people she spoke with the impression that she was edging away from running. She told one person who spoke with her that she felt she could have the biggest impact by leading \u201cfrom the outside.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Harris and several close friends worried that she would get caught up in the granularity of running for governor, especially because they figured she\u2019d have to over-exert herself to prove her bona fides that she wasn\u2019t taking the race for granted, and that would take her out of bigger discussions she very much still wants to be a part of.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cTo run for governor, you have to get more specific and granular to what the legislature is working on \u2013 and she\u2019s needed in the national conversation,\u201d the first person who spoke to her told CNN. As for running for president again, \u201cit means she doesn\u2019t have to make a decision right now, but she can spend time leading.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Part of what Harris wants to do is help Democrats in next year\u2019s midterms. That could include campaigning directly but also would be a focus of the PAC she is looking at starting.\n <\/p>\n
\n In California alone, there are more competitive House seats than the current margin Republicans have in the House. That number could go up if Gov. Gavin Newsom goes ahead with the mid-decade redistricting he says he\u2019ll pursue if Texas changes its own lines to boost Republicans. But after last year\u2019s presidential campaign, she could have resonance well beyond California as well.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US elections Gubernatorial elections State & local races See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Former Vice President…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-35182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}