Kamala Harris has had quite the week. She dropped out of the California governor's race, announced she'd written a book that somehow isn't a recipe for word salad or cocktails, and she joined Stephen Colbert to cackle about the government spying on Americans through our ... wireless earbuds?
What jumped out to me is Kamala's insistence that she's stepping away from politics because the 'system is broken.'
Former vice president Kamala Harris expressed deep concern about U.S. democracy, describing it as a broken system on CBS’s “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” on Thursday evening, in her first interview since the 2024 presidential election. https://t.co/Zua4Evzzg9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 1, 2025
Here's more from the Washington Post:
Former vice president Kamala Harris expressed deep concern about U.S. democracy, describing it as a broken system on CBS’s 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert' on Thursday evening, in her first interview since the 2024 presidential election.
She denounced Congress for “sitting on their hands” and for failing to 'stand in the way' of some of President Donald Trump’s policies. Harris did not address a question from host Stephen Colbert about the possibility of her running for the White House in 2028.
Harris explained her decision not to run for California governor after Colbert asked whether that meant she was planning to run 'for a different office.' She said the system was broken, despite 'so many good people who are public servants; teachers and firefighters and police officers and nurses and scientists.'
It's nice to know that, since 2016, the Democrats haven't engaged in one moment's introspection as to why Donald Trump won the presidency then and why he won it again in 2024. Sure, Joe Biden had his term, but that was more a response to COVID and going with something -- someone -- different than a ringing endorsement of the Democratic Party.
And it shows. Democrats have lost all but three voter age groups, and their margins with those groups are in the single digits. Their approval rating as a party is in the toilet, with just 19% approval.
When asked by Colbert who the leader of the Democratic Party is, Kamala Harris was unable to answer.
Kamala Harris was never cut out for politics. She got where she was not because of her political acumen, her brains, or her hard work. When she ran for the White House in 2020, she dropped out before Iowa, and received fewer votes from Black Americans than Bernie Sanders. She got where she was because she checked the Left's intersectionality boxes.
Voters saw that.
During the 107 days of her candidacy, voters said Kamala lacked sincerity, saying what she thought Americans wanted to hear instead of what she believed. That was understandable, because on free speech, guns, and the economy, what Kamala actually believed was also off-putting to most Americans, too.
When she 'helped' assemble toiletry bags for East Coast hurricane victims, it was a photo op where Kamala was uncomfortable interacting with normal people doing normal things. She copied Donald Trump's campaign ideas, including no taxes on tips and even his stop at a barber shop.
And even when she's speaking to a crowd comprised of her voters, she sounds insincere, condescending, and speaks in her trademark word salads.
There was nothing appealing about Kamala Harris except, for half the country, she wasn't Donald Trump. That's it. That was her one 'qualification.' That's not enough to make a political career, especially now that she doesn't have President Trump to run against again.
And the fact that Kamala Harris isn't president is concrete proof that our system is working just as it's intended.
