Kamala Harris is testing the waters for another White House run.
But something strange is happening behind the scenes.
And a former Democrat strategist just exposed the one brutal truth about Kamala Harris that has 2028 rivals biting their tongues.
Party insiders are staying quiet while Harris crashes and burns
Dan Turrentine dropped a bombshell that explains why potential 2028 presidential contenders aren't attacking Kamala Harris.
They're waiting for her to self-destruct all on her own.
"Democrats aren't attacking her because they think that she'll implode for the third time," Turrentine told Newsmax's American Agenda.
Harris rebranded her old campaign X account "KamalaHQ" as "Headquarters" — a supposedly "Gen-Z led progressive content hub."
Democrats aren't buying the makeover.
The Daily Caller spoke with several party members who aren't sold on the comeback tour despite the social media rebrand and strong book sales.
Harris has a track record of spectacular failure
Turrentine reminded everyone what happened the last two times she ran.
"Remember in '19, she never even made it to Iowa," Turrentine said.
She dropped out of the 2020 race in December 2019 — two months before the Iowa caucuses.
Harris had kicked off her campaign before 20,000 cheering supporters in Oakland, California, briefly surged in the polls after attacking Biden over busing, then watched everything collapse.
Campaign infighting erupted, money dried up, and she couldn't carve out a policy lane between the moderates and progressives.
"She just deflated," Turrentine explained.
The 2024 campaign wasn't much better despite inheriting Biden's entire operation.
"Obviously what happened in '24, I think the best thing she had was it was a short campaign," Turrentine stated.
"The longer it went, people think the worse she would have done."
Harris lost all seven swing states to President Donald Trump and couldn't even win the popular vote.
She secured the nomination without a single primary voter casting a ballot for her.
The campaign burned through nearly $1.5 billion in just 107 days and ended up millions in debt.
Why party rivals are holding their fire
Turrentine laid out the cold calculation happening in Democrat circles right now.
"So, people say, 'Why should I bother wasting breath attacking her and alienating black women when she's going to do it for herself?'" Turrentine added.
That's retreat mode.
Party insiders figure Harris will collapse under her own weight just like she did in 2019.
Going after her now would only anger black female voters — Democrats' most loyal voting bloc — and accomplish nothing.
Better to let nature take its course.
A former Biden-Harris White House aide told the Daily Caller the mood shifted when Harris started hinting at another presidential run.
"[I] didn't think she was going to make some presidential announcement this early, but it was telling how ominous it felt," the aide explained.
"Everyone kind of felt nervous."
The money problem Democrats can't ignore
Harris might be packing auditoriums on her speaking tour, but that doesn't mean Democrats want her running the party into the ground again.
When the DNC tried organizing a major San Francisco fundraiser with Harris as the headliner in October 2025, wealthy donors wanted nothing to do with it, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Another former Biden-Harris White House staffer who spoke to the Daily Caller was blunt about her future.
"Stick to the aunties and the adults who come out to your book tour," the staffer said.
"Everybody who's interested should run for president, but those who put [the Democratic National Committee] in millions of dollars of debt probably should think twice."
The Wall Street Journal reported that Harris looks at packed events and thinks she's got momentum.
"She looks at the crowds on this book tour where she's packing auditoriums, she looks at book sales, which — I'll give her credit — she sold a lot of books," Turrentine said.
"And she sees these polls and thinks, 'Why not me?'"
But selling books to loyal Democrats who already voted for her doesn't prove she can win a general election.
Potential 2028 rivals are watching with one thought in mind — let her have her moment now because it won't last until Iowa.
They saw this movie in 2019 and know how it ends.
Sources:
- Jason Cohen, "Ex-Democrat Strategist Explains Why Potential 2028 Rivals In Party Not 'Attacking' Harris," Daily Caller News Foundation, February 6, 2026.
- Axios, "Dems' divide over Harris surfaces as she looks like a 2028 contender," January 19, 2026.
- The Hill, "Kamala Harris sees support drop in potential 2028 horse race: Poll," June 27, 2025.
- NPR, "Kamala Harris Drops Out Of 2020 Presidential Race," December 3, 2019.
- CNN, "How Kamala Harris' 2020 campaign plummeted," December 4, 2019.
