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The Kamala Effect — Some Dems Want Off the Diversity Train for ’28 – PJ Media

April 3, 2026

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It’s a pretty safe bet to assume that most politicians are more self-involved than they are self-aware. Perhaps it wasn’t always that way, but we know what we’re dealing with here in the modern era. There are varying degrees of lack of self-awareness among politicians and few in history have been more clueless than the woman who recently spent four years being one heartbeat away from the presidency, Kamala Harris.

The former Madame Veep is blissfully unaware of her stunning lack of popularity. In typical leftist fashion, she continues to blame her loss to President Trump on misogyny and racism, not the fact that she’s incapable of stringing together three coherent sentences.

Harris is still floating the possibility of presidential run in 2028. The Democrats aren’t really casting their eyes her way, however, just like they didn’t in 2020. In fact, they might end up running as far away from the idea of Kamala Harris as they can. This is from Rick:

How flummoxed are the Democrats about 2028? With more than two years before the first primaries to choose a presidential nominee, some Democrats believe their best bet is to choose a candidate who looks and sounds like, well, a Republican.

These Democrats think that a straight, white, Christian man can put the party on his back and carry them to victory in 2028.

When they find one, they’ll let us know.

In truth, this is pure desperation. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Republicans should be pleased. Democrats are not going to “out-Republican” Republicans when it comes to being normal.

Rick is writing about an Axios article that shows just how ridiculous and wrong the Democrats are when they look at everything through a prism of race and gender. They stop seeing people, which leads them to greatly misread why their candidates succeed or fail. Democrats just see that two women lost to Donald Trump. They can’t admit to themselves that two monumentally flawed candidates lost to Donald Trump, and gender had nothing to do with it.

We’ve had a lot of discussions here at the Briefing about the weakness of the Dems’ bench for 2028. The higher-ups in the party are aware of that too. In their desperation, they almost certainly believe that the solution to their problems simply involves rearranging some colors on their diversity chess board.

If the push for a straight, white Christian male picks up steam in the Democratic Party, that’s a rough signal to Pete Buttigieg and Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who are gay and Jewish, respectively. Both of their names have been mentioned near the top of the list of potential Dem candidates for 2028.

The Axios piece must have given great comfort to California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is the only candidate on their electoral horizon who fits the description. I’ve said for years that Newsom’s biggest weakness as far as the Dems are concerned is his whiteness. How weird would it be if the Dems flipped their own script and it became a plus?

A little too weird for me, actually. I don’t doubt for a moment that there are plenty of restless people in the Democratic Party who want to pivot to a Great White Hope in 2028. It’s just that the party is too far into its diversity push to back off now. That white guilt they’ve been preying upon over there for decades can’t just be wished away.

Besides, if they don’t have a diversity-laden ticket, they give up all of their excuses for losing to JD Vance.

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