Kamala Harris has three options in front of her now as she exited from public life first time since 2004 and each option has their own personal and political obstacles, a New York Magazine report said. One of them and the most lucrative one is retirement from politics. The other two are to prepare for the president again in 2028 or to run for governor of California in 2026. The report said that Harris has not yet decided though every country head who called her after the election asked her the same question: what is she thinking?
A DailyMail report said Harris is planning for an image overhaul and has taken up a legal job in New York. She is also privately blaming her husband Doug Emhoff for her election loss as many scandals revolving around Doug surfaced during the campaigning.
Doug Emhoff, a lawyer, represented heavyweight clients like Walmart, Merck etc in the past before he ended his career to support Kamala Harris’s campaign. The report said he has spoken about taking on clients again and maintaining a public profile so he can keep up his work combating antisemitism.
Doug was seen exploring the Manhattan apartment market as the couple is also thinking about shifting to New York while keeping their main base in LA. Harris is likely to give some paid speeches, and she’s already fielded inquiries about writing a book, the report said. Harris has talked with staffers about setting up some sort of organization to fund her continuing work, but they haven’t settled on the nature of the work or the type of organization.
While running for California Governor is the most likely future of Kamala Harris as of now, most of Harris’s allies in California and Washington have recently downplayed the likelihood of a run. Some advisers have argued to her that the governorship may be a huge job but it’s a step down from the vice-presidency. And no one believes she could realistically run for president again if she goes for governor first.
