What a Monday the 13th, eh?
The hostages have finally come home to Israel. Donald Trump ended another war and dominated the world stage, again. Hamas got defeated; Iran just saw the last arm of its encirclement strategy collapse. Russ Vought’s draining the Swamp. Democrats won’t turn the spigots back on, and are now hiding as Trump returns home in triumph. Bidenites and Obamaites are scrambling for relevance after a generation of America Last leadership.
How could the moment possibly get any better?
How about the rise of a couple of political feuds for 2028 on the Left?
Granted, these stories would normally give rise to some skepticism, but (a) both appear to be happening in the open, and (b) they fit perfectly with an utterly leaderless and adrift Democrat Party. And even better, their erstwhile anointee Kamala Harris is involved in both.
First up, Axios reports that Harris may want to compete for the presidential nomination in 2028, which would certainly be a change of pace from 2024. That puts her right in the way of her putative California ally, podcaster and occasional governor Gavin Newsom, who’s been trying out a Trump impersonation over the last few weeks in a desperate attempt for political relevance:
Zoom in: Harris set off rare public sniping between the pair last month when she took a dig at Newsom in her new book “107 Days,” about her short run for president in 2024.
- After then-President Biden dropped out of the race in July, Harris called Democratic lawmakers to ask for their endorsement.
- She wrote in her book that when she reached Newsom, he said he was hiking and would call her back.
- Newsom did post his endorsement online hours later, but Harris wrote that Newsom never called back.
Newsom recently said he privately asked Harris why she didn’t mention in her book that he had quickly endorsed her, and she responded: “On book tour. Get back to you later.”
As Stephen Green quips at Instapundit, “They deserve each other (and so does California).” The tension between the two Golden State progressives predates the release of Harris’ memoir, Alex Thompson reminds Axios readers. Newsom and Harris have differing recollections as to why the California governor didn’t get a speaking slot at the 2024 national convention. It’s not as if Newsom didn’t make it; he was on the floor announcing the delegate vote for Harris’ engineered takeover of the nomination for Joe Biden.
That’s not the extent of the awkwardness:
Many former Harris staffers, including the leadership of her 2020 presidential campaign, now are working for Newsom and are expected to stay with him if he runs in 2028.
- Longtime Democratic strategist Ace Smith has known Harris since the early 2000s and steered her races for California attorney general, U.S. Senate and president. But he’s no longer part of Harris’ orbit, people familiar with the relationship tell Axios.
That’s okay. Harris can simply hire new staff when she launches her campaign. And then she can hire even more new staff when she drives off the first set. Harris may have been lucky that her campaign only lasted 107 days, given her issues in staff retention.
That’s not the only awkwardness that involves Harris. Apparently, the Bidens are ghosting Harris these days — and that one comes from the Veep herself:
WATCH: Kamala Harris reveals that Joe Biden doesn’t pick up her calls.
Eugene Daniels asking about Biden’s cancer treatment: Have you talked to him about it?
Kamala: “Yeah. No. I called him earlier.”
Daniels: “How’s he doing?”
Kamala: “I have not talked to him. I just left… pic.twitter.com/kZ7tcWDDqw
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 12, 2025
Ouch, baby, very ouch. Biden’s not taking her calls, and he’s not returning them either. One reason could be that Harris tried to lay the blame for her failed campaign on Biden in her memoir, skipping over the fact that she hid from the media, had no argument for her nomination other than Orange Man Bad, and made one of the worst running-mate picks of all time with Minnesota governor JazzHands McSnitchline.
As Matt Margolis reminds us at PJ Media, this apparent enmity is hardly new either:
This isn’t the first time rumors of tension between Biden and Kamala have surfaced. From their first year in office, it was obvious there were problems with their relationship behind the scenes. Her allies complained she was only being given “trash assignments,” and they barely communicated. There were even rumors at one point that Biden’s people were trying to get rid of her. So, this revelation isn’t a total surprise. I’ve never believed Kamala was Biden’s top choice of a running mate. Seriously, her most significant moment of the 2020 Democratic primary was when she essentially accused Biden of being racist. And, of course, there are the unflattering things she said about him in her book.
Now, with Biden facing a serious health challenge, her inability to even get him on the phone feels like another chapter in a strained and awkward relationship.
Oh, I very much believe that Harris was Biden’s first choice. He promised to choose a black woman as a running mate, after all, and Harris had the best standing among black female Democrats at the time. She also had support from the hard Left, which Biden desperately needed in 2020. Plus, this is precisely the kind of decision for which Biden was so notorious during his political career, where he managed to end up on the wrong end of every foreign-policy question, as former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote in his own memoir.
How serious are these feuds? YMMV, but I’d bet they’re at least present in some significant form. And I for one will never get tired of popcorn. Pass me the bucket, and put some more butter and salt on it, too.
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