Kamala Harris just told the country exactly what she wants to do if she ever gets near the White House again.
She showed up in Nashville with a wish list that would rewrite the rules of American elections from top to bottom.
And the speech she gave at the National Urban League Conference left little doubt about where she’s headed in 2028.
What Harris Said in Nashville
Harris renewed her support for several far-left proposals, including eliminating the Electoral College, packing the US Supreme Court, and granting statehood to Washington, DC and Puerto Rico.
“We must allow for a real conversation about revisiting certain things,” Harris said. “I know this is gonna be controversial coming from me, in particular. We need to revisit the Electoral College.” She added, “We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices like we have 13 district courts. We need to revisit, if they so want, statehood for Puerto Rico and DC.”
She also told the crowd, “These guys on the other side are ruthless, and we need to be ruthless too. It’s not about being callous. . . . We have to be uncompromising.”
Harris offered her own campaign slogan to the audience: “And here’s my slogan, use it if you like: We need to be too big to rig.”
That last line is worth sitting with for a moment. The woman who lost the Electoral College, lost the popular vote, and lost every swing state in 2024 is now calling for the Electoral College to be scrapped. The timing is not a coincidence.
Call It What It Is
Packing the Supreme Court with four new seats would let any Democrat president who wins a simple Senate majority turn the nation’s highest court into a rubber stamp for the Left’s agenda for a generation. Adding DC and Puerto Rico as states would create four new reliably Democrat US Senators overnight, permanently tilting the balance of power in the upper chamber before Republicans could do anything about it. Taken together, these are not reform proposals. They are a blueprint for locking Republicans out of national power for the foreseeable future.
And Harris knows exactly what she’s doing. When asked whether she is planning another run for the White House, she hedged, saying she has not yet made a decision but warning, “2028 will not matter if we don’t win 2026.” That’s the language of someone who has already decided.
Her earlier decision to keep her name off the California governor’s ballot left the door open for a possible third presidential bid in 2028. In the statement explaining that decision, Harris said, “For now, my leadership and public service will not be in elected office.”
She declined to run for governor. She kept the 2028 door wide open. And then she flew to Nashville to preview a presidential platform. Connect those dots yourself.
If Harris eventually does launch a 2028 presidential campaign, she would start as the most recognizable Democrat in what’s expected to be a large field of contenders, and she would come equipped with a broad fundraising network she built up last cycle.
That’s the infrastructure of a campaign, not a retirement.
The Party That Lost Badly Wants to Change the Rules
Trump won the 2024 race in a landslide, picking up 312 Electoral College votes over Harris’s 226. The voters made their judgment clear. Now Harris wants to dismantle the system that recorded that judgment.
Harris suffered a crushing loss to President Trump in November, losing the popular vote, the Electoral College, and every swing state to the Republican. Her loss came despite raising more than a billion dollars from Democrat donors during her campaign.
A billion dollars, every swing state lost, and the answer is to change how elections work. That’s not a reform instinct. That’s a sore loser instinct dressed up in constitutional language.
Even some Democrats have noticed. “We tried it, it didn’t work, next person up,” Ed Sutton, a South Carolina state senator, told Politico columnist Jonathan Martin.
Another South Carolina state senator, Brad Hutto, said, “I think we’re going to be reluctant to pick somebody who didn’t win last time.”
But reluctance inside the party doesn’t mean Harris goes away. Democrat aides and strategists believe Harris is the frontrunner for the 2028 Democrat presidential nomination based on her name recognition and public appearances.
And the polling, at least for now, backs that up. A survey from the Daily Mail/JL Partners shows that 29% of registered Democrat voters want to see Harris be the 2028 party candidate for president. The survey showed California Governor Gavin Newsom garnering support from 15% of registered Democrat voters, far behind Harris.
But name recognition built on losing is a shaky foundation. Her advisers now treat it as an article of faith that the compressed campaign cost her the chance to define herself in 2024. If anything, it did her a favor. The 107 days between President Joe Biden’s exit and Election Day meant no real primary and less time having to defend an unpopular administration.
A full primary campaign in 2028 gives her nowhere to hide from that record.
When she pursued the presidency in 2019, her campaign faltered badly from the start, and she dropped out before the primaries really got underway. In 2024, the only reason she became the candidate is because Biden dropped out and handpicked her as his replacement, and then Democrat elites coalesced around her.
And yet here she is, back at the podium, calling for a “ruthless” Democrat Party and floating proposals that would permanently tilt the electoral map in her party’s favor before a single vote is cast in 2028.
The voters who handed Donald Trump a landslide victory deserve to know that the Democrats’ answer to that defeat is not better policy. It’s a proposal to change the scoreboard.
Democrat strategist Alex Hoffman put it plainly: “I hope she runs, because then she will lose and we will never have to hear from her again. She will never win an election at a national scale. Never.”
But whether Harris runs or not, the agenda she laid out in Nashville belongs to the Democrat Party now. Pack the Court. Kill the Electoral College. Add new states to flood the Senate with Democrat votes. Call anyone who objects to the plan ruthless, and then borrow their word to describe yourself.
That’s the pitch. Voters should take it seriously.
Sources: Yahoo News/The Tennessean, The Post Millennial, NBC News, Tampa Free Press, Fox News Digital, USA Today, New York Magazine/Intelligencer