Kamala Harris for California governor? Not so fast, said top Democrat donors who are still recovering from the former vice president’s failed presidential campaign.
So reports Politico in a stinging series of interviews with Democrat funders who remain troubled about Harris’s billion-dollar campaign, which not only failed badly but ended in debt and left lingering questions about her role in the coverup of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.
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Said one unnamed, six-figure California donor in the report, “Kamala just reminds you we are in this complete shit storm. With Biden, we got bamboozled … I think she did the best she could in that situation, but obviously she knew about the cognitive decline too.”
He added, “I’ve written so many checks because I knew the Trump administration would be horrible, but we’re living in a nightmare because of the Democrats. I’m furious at them, truly.”
Others said on the record to the influential, left-leaning news outlet that what seemed a good idea at first now was being questioned.
“There was more enthusiasm at first,” said Mather Martin, a San Francisco-based fundraiser who has worked for Harris campaigns. “I think it waned a bit.
Politico wrote:
Some party funders have privately shared that ambivalence with each other as Harris has embarked on a quiet schedule of thank you visits, catch-up calls and listening sessions, touching base with her most trusted supporters as she weighs her options. The former vice president has tasked aides with exploring several paths, including not just a campaign for political office but also a philanthropic venture.
While Harris has kept a low public profile since leaving office, according to Politico she held private meetings when she was in the Bay Area in June to headline a Democratic National Committee fundraiser. It also reported she was seeking the input of loyalists who have backed her campaigns since she ran to be San Francisco’s district attorney more than 20 years ago.
Clearly, according to the interviews, the former vice president’s role in asserting President Joe Biden’s mental fitness in the latter years of his presidency is weighing on the minds of many.
Harris has yet to answer to that issue, causing former Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to criticize Harris as well as former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, tearing into the pair in late May on X. Villaraigosa is running for governor.
“For me it’s the consequences of their failure to say anything,” he said in an interview featured in the X post. “That somehow the president was ready for another four years. And the consequences of that is what I’m focused on”:
One Southern California fundraiser, who spoke to Politico anonymously, agreed.
Donors “realize it’s just going to bring up the whole pathetic last presidential,