Amsterdam News | Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she “might” make a new run for president in 2028, giving her closest indicator yet that she will undertake another race for the Oval Office.
“I am thinking about it,” she told Rev. Al Sharpton in a packed room with a cheering audience at the National Action Network Convention in Midtown Manhattan on Friday, April 10. Speculation has floated about the possibility of Harris trying again for the chief executive job after her loss to Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Although not a definitive announcement, it raises new curiosity about whether Harris will put her efforts into a second try.
“I served for four years being a heartbeat away from the presidency of the United States. I spent countless hours in my West Wing office, footsteps away from the Oval Office, and countless hours in the Oval Office and the Situation Room. I know what the job is and I know what it requires,” Harris said.
“One of the things I’ve been doing…is … traveling the country the last year. I’ve spent a lot of time in the south and a lot of places, and the one thing I’m really clear about also is the status quo is not working. It hasn’t been working for a lot of people for a long time.”
Harris lost the election to Trump by 49.8 to 48.3 percentage points in 2024, meaning about half the country voted for her. She was defeated because the electoral college gave Trump 312 votes to her 226 due to a failure to win crucial swing states.
However, significant momentum has remained with her since that time, especially given the dissatisfaction in polls with Trump’s performance since he began his second term in January 2025.
Meanwhile, according to a March 2026 poll from the Center Square, a political watchdog website, Harris remains a favorite among a number of potential candidates who vied for the Democratic nomination in 2024. In a national sampling of more than 1,100 Democratic and left-leaning independent voters, 31% said they would pick Harris.
“The people don’t want process; they want progress, and that’s the work that needs to be done,” she said. “The American people have the right to expect that anyone who wants to run for office and be a leader — it can’t be about themselves, and what they want for themselves has got to be about the American people.”
To be sure, this was also not the first time that Harris speculated on running again. She told the BBC in October 2025 that she may “possibly” run again. Her NAN appearance, though, fostered optimism that she might run and win in 2028.
“She ran brilliantly and powerfully for the presidency;, it was 107 days,” said author and scholar Michael Eric Dyson after Harris’s appearance. “What could she do if she had a longer runway to get into shape to be able to fly? I think it’s her right, and some would say her duty, to at least test those waters again to make certain that what she is capable of contributing can be fully revealed and her service to the nation, I think, would be extraordinary.”
Harris was critical of Trump’s foreign policy, particularly regarding the war in Iran, remarking that it has made America less safe and seen as less dependable on the world stage. Domestically, she said that he has endangered democracy through an attempted erosion of voting rights through the SAVE Act, which would change the identification requirements for voting in elections. She said she fears that the Voting Rights Act will be a casualty of the president’s efforts through the Supreme Court.
“They are about to make a decision on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, and I am sad to say I do believe they are going to kill it,” she said. “That will mean that the legal tool that we have to be able to litigate in a court what are clearly racist-influenced laws to prevent certain people from voting — we’re going to lose the tool that we have had before.”
Miko Pickett, mayor of Mullins, S.C., who is facing a political challenge of her own related to voting, said she believes that given what Harris said at NAN, she in fact will run again.
“If she said she ‘might’ run in a public forum like this, she’s running,” said Pickett. “That was just testing the waters.” Noting the short amount of time Harris had to run last time, Pickett said, “Imagine if she had two years — it would definitely be different.”