“I Am Not Done”: Harris and Newsom Both Weigh White House Runs After 2026

Both former Vice President Kamala Harris and Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom said this weekend that they will consider running for president after the 2026 midterm elections.

Harris said during a BBC interview Saturday she anticipates a woman will be president in the coming years.

“I am not done,” the failed 2024 Democratic Party nominee said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service, and it’s in my bones.” Harris told the Associated Press in an interview last week she considers herself as a leader of the Democratic Party, and a run in 2028 is an option. However, the former V.P. said, “I have not decided. I may or may not.”

Newsom told “CBS News Sunday Morning” that he’d “be lying” if he said he wasn’t giving serious thought to running for president.

“I’d just be lying, and I can’t do that,” he said.

Newsom has often said he would need a compelling “why”—a good reason—to ever run for the White House.

“If you have a compelling ‘why,’ you can endure any ‘how,’” Newsom said. “People see right through you if you don’t have that why. … So that faith will determine that.”

Newsom said he’s “looking forward” to seeing who steps forward in 2028 and “who meets the moment.”

He’ll make his own final decision whether to run after the 2026 midterms.

Additionally, Newsom talked about President Donald Trump during the interview saying he is “an invasive species” in his state.

“Some may not find this a prudent thing to say about a president of the United States, but he is an invasive species for California, for the country, for the world,” Newsom said of Trump. “He’s a wrecking ball. He’s wrecking alliances, truth, trust, traditions, institutions.”

Trump is currently in Asia, where on Sunday he oversaw the signing of a peace agreement between Cambodia and Thailand.

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