Harris said he didn’t want to work for the government “for now,” but didn’t close the door in the 2028 presidential bid.
Kamala Harris from “Late Show with Stephen Colbert”
In an interview about “The Late Show,” Kamala Harris told Stephen Colbert that the system was broken and she wanted to reunite with the Americans.
WASHINGTON – Former Vice President Kamala Harris denied sitting at the California Governor’s race next year as he hugs another office.
“No, no,” she told “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert during her July 31st appearance. “To be honest, it’s probably more basic than that.”
Harris said he has a lot to think about running for governor in her hometown. The 2024 Democratic candidate, who lost to President Donald Trump, previously served as California Attorney General and one of the two state U.S. Senators. The 60-year-old, who made history as the country’s first female, black and Asian American vice president, is born in Oakland and currently lives near Los Angeles.
“Recently, for now I decided that I didn’t want to go back to the system. I think it’s broken,” Harris said.
Harris has long believed that the country’s system is strong enough to adhere to the country’s core principles, but she said she doesn’t think it is now.
“I want to travel around the country, I want to hear people, I want to talk to people, I don’t want to trade where it asks for their vote,” Harris, who ran for president, told Colbert.
Earlier in the week, Harris issued a statement in 2026 that he would not compete in the California governor’s race. However, she said “for now” she would remain in public office, leaving the door open to her 2028 presidential bid.
She repeated Colbert’s stages while addressing his questions about the California governor’s race and indirectly addressing speculation that a third presidential election could be launched. Harris said the Democrats have many leaders at the moment, arguing that putting the party’s future on “one shoulder” would be a “mistake.”
Harris ran a short-lived campaign to nominate the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 before joining Biden’s ticket and serving as vice president. She became the Democratic candidate for president in 2024 after Biden dropped out within four months of the general election.
During the White House abbreviation campaign, Harris faced questions from voters and party insiders — and Trump’s attack — on whether she was doing enough to distinguish herself from Biden, now 82, Harris showed she would not comment on her former boss’s health and office fitness when she finishes the race.
Harris said she has “incredible respect” for Biden, and she encouraged her audience to remember the former 45th president of the United States as someone who believes in the rule of law, the importance of public service and integrity.
“That’s where I’m leaving it,” she said.
Regarding the 2024 campaign, Harris said he “don’t want to stack up” Biden after he dropped out. “There was a lot of build-up at the time and I wasn’t going to be involved in it.”
The former vice president was in a program promoting her memoir “107 Days.” The book will be published by Simon & Schuster on September 23rd.
This was her eighth appearance in the program, which was cancelled last month and ended next year, and was her first interview about her upcoming memoirs.
During the interview, she teased a passage from a book about her last birthday. She said her husband Doug Emov, who turned 60, turned 60 in October last year, “had a kind of ball dropped.”
Harris said he didn’t watch the news for months after losing to Trump. “You know, I’m not into self-harm,” she joked.
Instead, Harris said he turned to the cooking show. “The ‘kitchen’ is one of my favorites,” she said.
In an interview with Colbert, Harris recalls his drive to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2025, about Trump’s election victory certification. Harris has primarily sided with the process of his ability as Senate President and officially declared Trump, who won 312 votes at the 2024 presidential contest.
The law recalled memories of the attack on the Capitol four years ago when lawmakers and former vice president Mike Pence went through the same process and identified Joe Biden and Harris as the nation’s next leaders, Harris said. During the January 6, 2021 riot, Harris was still representing California in the US Senate for the final few days and at the Capitol.
“It was a difficult day, because it grew up – it reminded me of a lot of things in terms of the recent history of our country, what that exact day was, what it meant in our country’s history,” she said.
Harris praised her for supporting the Constitution, although she had never spoken to Pence.
(This story has been updated with more information and videos.)
