announced a book deal<\/a> for her forthcoming memoir, \u201c107 Days,\u201d which will chronicle her whirlwind 2024 presidential campaign, and her first interview since the election on \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert\u201d on Thursday night.<\/p>\nNathanael Fast, director of the Neely Center for Ethical Leadership and Decision Making at the USC Marshall School of Business, said Harris\u2019 talk of \u201cgetting back out and listening\u201d is consistent with her wanting to reclaim a prominent national role. That could mean another presidential run, he said, but it could also mean something else \u2014 particularly in the short term, where she has work to do recasting people\u2019s perceptions of her.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf she can create a compelling narrative about who she is, what she\u2019s done, what happened in the last election and where she\u2019s headed next,\u201d Fast said, \u201cshe\u2019ll be more likely to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fast said his bet is that she runs for president, but he could also see her going the route of Gore \u2014 who, after losing the presidential election, decided to move in a different direction to have worldwide impact by addressing climate change.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can imagine someone like Harris taking on artificial intelligence and saying, \u2018My whole thing is trying to influence the national conversation around what\u2019s going to happen with AI,\u2019\u201d Fast said. <\/p>\n
Artificial intelligence was part of her portfolio as vice president and is a topic Harris cares deeply about, said a source familiar with her thinking who asked for anonymity to speak candidly about her next steps. <\/p>\n
Harris also will have to tread carefully as she works to reassert her influence in the Democratic Party, which is still reeling from a second loss to Trump, experts said.<\/p>\n
Democrats have struggled to unify the disparate elements of their party and settle on kitchen-table messaging that appeals to voters about the everyday challenges they face, said Sara Sadhwani, a politics professor at Pomona College. <\/p>\n
After she lost to Trump, a convicted felon targeted with several other criminal investigations, \u201cHarris exemplifies the inability to thread that needle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whatever Harris does to break through, it won\u2019t be easy in today\u2019s saturated media and political marketplace, which is so vastly different from what other former White House occupants faced. <\/p>\n
After he declined to run for reelection in 1928, former President Coolidge wrote a nationally syndicated newspaper column. Today, Harris would be more likely to launch a podcast \u2014 but whether it will catch on nationally is anyone\u2019s guess.<\/p>\n
Winger said Harris does have massive name recognition, and Fast said she has many of the important forms of \u201ccapital\u201d for a leader to continue being successful and influential \u2014 including financial and social.<\/p>\n
Still, \u201cit\u2019s tough,\u201d Winger said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very different media ecosystem just because of how crowded and how fractured it has become.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle Lierman, who worked for more than six years in the Obama White House, is now chief executive of Civic Nation, a nonpartisan nonprofit that houses several education, gender equity and voter initiatives \u2014 including When We All Vote, the voter initiative Michelle Obama launched in 2018.<\/p>\n
Lierman said he is excited to see what Harris does next, as it\u2019s likely to show her \u201cbest side.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re at the White House, you are working on a dozen different topics every day, and you are trying to make as big an impact as possible before the clock runs out,\u201d Lierman said. \u201cAnd when you leave, you have an opportunity to step back, think longer term, and go deeper on a few issues that you\u2019re particularly passionate about. And I think that\u2019s liberating in some ways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Sen. Laphonza Butler, a longtime friend of Harris\u2019, said the former vice president might draw from the blueprints laid out by her recent predecessors. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhether you\u2019re talking about the Clinton Global Initiative or When We All Vote … or the work that\u2019s happening at the Obama Foundation, I think there\u2019s plenty of examples,\u201d Butler said.<\/p>\n
Many former presidents have leveraged their experience in foreign affairs \u2014 and existing relationships with foreign leaders \u2014 to continue holding sway in international relations, particularly when members of their own party return to power. President Clinton, for instance, used President Carter in that way.<\/p>\n
Andra Gillespie, a political scientist at Emory University, said Harris could be \u201creally effective\u201d in bolstering organizations that work for racial justice and to elect women, but said \u201cthat\u2019s not what she was organizing her political career around\u201d before the 2024 election and it may not be the path she chooses now.<\/p>\n
Gillespie said she read Harris\u2019 statement as indicating that she was most interested in finding a way to force change outside of government. She said she could see Harris \u2014 who is already in California, and whose husband Doug Emhoff is an entertainment lawyer \u2014 moving into production and podcasts like the Obamas. <\/p>\n
Gillespie said she also could see Harris working closely with Howard University, her alma mater in Washington, D.C., on fundraising or building out a new center of study, as Joe Biden did at the University of Delaware.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s still relatively young, and still could have a good 15 to 20 years of active engagement ahead of her,\u201d Gillespie said, \u201cin whatever form she wants that to take.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Vice President Kamala Harris closed a big door when she announced Wednesday that she would not run…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,39699,181,507,692,14299,12,13961,39697,39698,39696,39701,39700,2190,5568,5572,74,6671,8512],"class_list":["post-51518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-andra-gillespie","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-book","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-former-president","tag-good-way","tag-harris","tag-influence","tag-nathanael-fast","tag-podcast","tag-power","tag-president","tag-technology","tag-university","tag-winger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}