Former Vice President Kamala Harris announced Wednesday that she will not run for California governor or seek any other political office, a decision that reflects mounting pressure within the Democratic Party for generational change.
MSNBC panelist Mara Gay, speaking on Morning Joe, framed Harris’ decision as a response to the party’s base. “I think the key word in her statement there is ‘listening,’ and I think that this is a sign that Democratic leaders are actually hearing the base when the base says ‘we want new faces. We want new blood, new talent, younger talent,’” Gay said. “Hopefully it’s a signal to the [Democratic National Convention] as well that says ‘you know, let’s have an open, competitive primary.’”
She added that the mood among voters is unmistakable. “When you go out to individual Democratic voters, when you go out in swing states, when you go out and talk to voters, they say ‘we want to see who else is out there.’”
Doubts about Harris’ electoral viability have persisted since her 2024 loss to President Donald Trump. A Democratic member of California’s congressional delegation told CNN, “There’s no groundswell for her candidacy. In fact, I think it would only fire up Republicans and hurt our ability to win the four to five seats that we need to win to win the House and hold on to three seats that we just flipped in 2024.” The member concluded, “She comes in with baggage.”
Frustrations over her last campaign continue to surface, reported The Daily Caller. In a November 2024 interview with News Nation, Democratic National Committee National Finance Committee member Lindy Li said she was “stunned” by the lack of accountability surrounding the $1.5 billion spent. Democratic donor John Morgan took an even harder line, arguing that the campaign’s financial mismanagement “should end Harris’ political career.”
Her decision to bow out comes at a moment when Democrats have seen their support completely collapse across several voting groups. New Conservative Post reported that “A dramatic realignment is underway in American politics, according to new survey data from the Pew Research Center. Released this week, the findings expose a sharp generational and gender-based divide, with men under 30 now favoring the Republican Party by an astonishing 44-point margin—a seismic shift from just two years ago, when that demographic was evenly split.
The data, drawn from Pew’s National Public Opinion Reference Survey conducted between February and June 2025, reveal that the youngest cohort of male voters has turned decisively rightward. Analysts suggest the shift may be rooted in economic instability following the 2023 recession, which hit young men especially hard. Federal Reserve reports show that unemployment among males under 30 peaked at levels not seen since the Great Recession, fueling skepticism toward the status quo and driving many toward the GOP.”
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The problem seems to be that the “new blood” being called for will be even more radical than the current blood due to liberal indoctrination by liberal educators instead of being educated in the things one needs to know to live a good life. Liberals that dominate the education systems don’t live in the real world. They live in the fictional Shangri La of those who don’t understand what real life requires. Pipe dreams are always better than real life and if one is not prepared properly for real life one becomes the typical angry demonRAT angry about everything with everybody who does not agree with them.
Took Dems long enough to figure it out right 2 late now