Kamala Harris Says "I Told You So" About The Trump Administration
Kamala Harris Says “I Told You So” About The Trump Administration Without Actually Saying It
Kamala Harris is stepping back into the spotlight. Fresh off her first post-campaign appearance at the NAACP Awards, Harris appeared at the Leading Women Defined Summit in California and heartily disavowed the policies of the Trump administration.
“There are things that we knew would happen and it understandably creates a sense of fear,” Harris said. “Cause you know, there were many things we knew would happen.” She added, “I’m not here to say ‘I told you so,’ then laughed.
Harris is said to be considering a run for governor of California in 2026, factoring in her strong base in the state, where she has been San Francisco’s attorney general, the state’s attorney general, and a senator. She spoke for about eight minutes at the summit for Black women, convened by former BET CEO Debra Lee.
Harris touched on the numerous people and organizations that have capitulated to Trump, including her husband Doug Emhoff’s Los Angeles law firm, saying that the behavior is contagious. But she also said that resistance and standing up for principles can also be contagious.
“In one person, when a few, stands with the courage that is the courage exhibited by the leaders in this room every day, to stand, to have the courage to say, I feel fear,” she said. “The courage to say what is happening is wrong, the courage to say that there is a way that we must chart to get through this, understanding our power in the democracy we still have if we hold on to it, courage is contagious.”
Per Politico, Harris has been telling people that she will decide about running for governor by the end of the summer. The state’s current governor, Gavin Newsom, is term-limited and can’t run again. The Hill reports that polls say she’d be a Democratic frontrunner in the race with 60% of primary voters saying they’d cast their vote for Harris. It has also been reported that making another run for president in 2028 is also a possibility.
Just as she was going to be the first Black/Southeast Asian woman to be president, she’d be the first Black woman governor in the U.S. Regardless of her plans, she can likely count on support from the Black women she was in front of late last week.
“What has not changed is our sisterhood,” she said. “What has not changed is our understanding of the great shoulders upon which we stand — and the great shoulders we possess.”
She added, “This is a moment in time where we all need to be in rooms like this. No one can take our identity or existence from us — because we won’t let them.”
