Former US Vice-President Kamala Harris has told the BBC she may run again for the White House.
In her first UK interview, Harris said she would “possibly” be president one day and was confident there will be a woman in the White House in future.
Making her strongest suggestion to date that she will make another presidential bid in 2028 after losing to Donald Trump last year, Harris dismissed polls that put her as an outsider to become the Democrats’ pick for the next election.
Speaking to Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Harris also turned her fire on her former rival, branding Trump a “tyrant”, and said warnings she made about him on the campaign trail had been proved right.
As the Democratic party searches for answers about Republican Donald Trump’s decisive victory one year ago, much of the blame has been directed at former President Joe Biden for not standing down sooner.
But there have also been questions raised about whether Harris could have run a better campaign and set out a clearer message on the number one issue, the economy.
In the BBC interview Harris entertained the prospect of another run at the White House, saying her grandnieces would, “in their lifetime, for sure”, see a female president.
Asked if it would be her, she said, “possibly”, confirming she is considering another run at the top job.
Harris said she had not yet made a decision, but underlined that she still sees herself as having a future in politics.
“I am not done,” the former vice-president said. “I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it’s in my bones.”
Responding to odds that place her as an outsider to win a place on the Democratic ticket – even behind Hollywood actor Dwayne the Rock Johnson – she said she never listened to polls.
“If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office – and I certainly wouldn’t be sitting here.”
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