INSIDER: Hasta la vista Kamala?

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Failed Democrat presidential candidate Kamala Harris has been keeping a relatively low profile as she prepares for a political comeback, but it seems as though her party is ready to move on from the deeply unpopular ex-veep rather than endure another electoral disaster.

Having been gifted her party’s nomination, which she had less than a snowball’s chance in hell of winning in a legitimate process, the first woman of color to become vice president is looking like the longest of long shots to have any hopes of making history.

Working busily to remove the stench of Joe Biden from the party using Jake Tapper’s new book as a cleansing agent, Democrats appear to also wisely be seeking to deposit his second banana in the dumpster with the week kicking off with a series of media stories casting doubt on her future and the possibility that she could use a brief stint as governor of California as a springboard to the Oval Office.

A trio of top outlets, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Politico, all published negative stories about Harris, a sure sign that the party bosses and donors – who haven’t gotten over feeling cheated by her burning through a record campaign war chest in three short months – are moving on.

NYT, WaPo, and Politico all dump on Kamala Harris this morning. pic.twitter.com/qC0fCHHsPb

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) June 2, 2025

WaPo, which enraged Democrats when owner Jeff Bezos forbade the paper from endorsing Harris last fall, ran the story titled “As Kamala Harris weighs a run for governor, some Democrats are moving on.” The NYT, which did endorse her, ran its own piece titled “Party Activists in California Aren’t Sold on a Harris Run for Governor,” making much of her non-appearance at the weekend’s California Democratic Party convention.

Party Activists in California Aren’t Sold on a Harris Run for Governor https://t.co/3Oq7vZ4iUO

— Bo Snerdley (@BoSnerdley) June 2, 2025

According to the Times, “…backing Harris for governor might signal to voters that the party has not learned the lessons of last year’s losses. With Ms. Harris at the top of the national ticket, the party’s support declined among black voters, Latino voters, and men. She beat Donald J. Trump in California, but by a smaller margin than former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had four years earlier.”

OOF!

Politico’s contribution to the Kamala pile-on, “2 states, 1 tepid view of Kamala Harris and her political future,” all but shovels dirt onto her political grave by noting that her name didn’t even come up at the South Carolina party dinner or at Jim Clyburn’s big fish fry, not a good sign in an early primary state with a heavily black electorate where the longtime congressman rules the roost.

As Politico noted today, Kamala Harris was not even a topic of discussion at the SCDP convention this weekend. https://t.co/lOFSb2uify

There was some buzz around Wes Moore though, who one strategist told me was running the “best campaign for vice president I’ve ever seen.” pic.twitter.com/NjLIdqWx4i

— Nick Reynolds (@IAmNickReynolds) June 2, 2025

Another problem for Harris is that since the big COVID-level propaganda campaign to roll out “Kamalot,” it was all downhill, and now, DEI is on the retreat, depriving her of what could really be the only argument in favor of a redux.

But there has been some speculation that perhaps Harris’s absence at the state convention is an indication that she has no interest in the governor’s job and has her eye solely on the White House. Don’t buy it. Her no-show is far more likely due to her name recognition and popularity, making her all but a slam dunk to cruise to a win in next year’s primary, so why bother?

Somebody at the DNC seems to have ordered a “code red” on Kamala and the cackling buffoon should save herself the embarrassment by just disappearing from the public eye for the next decade or so.

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