Kamala Harris said plenty of people think she should be sitting at home eating bonbons and cooking her husband’s favorite foods, and that she could do that and do the job at the same time.
“I’m sure there are many who think that I should just sit at home and eat bonbons and cook Doug’s favorite foods,” the former vice president said, naming the expectation rather than arguing with it. Then she answered it in one line: “I could cook Doug’s favorite foods and do this.” Doug Emhoff is her husband.
She has not decided whether to run for president in 2028. “I go back and forth. I honestly go back and forth. There’s so many factors,” she said. On why she would do it at all she was exact: “If I run, my motivation is not to beat other Democrats. It’s to actually do the job.”
The pressure to stand aside is coming from inside her own party. Sen. Elissa Slotkin, a Michigan Democrat, said Democrats need “new faces and big and bold ideas” and that “even if some of those more traditional folks you’ve heard of get in, it just won’t work.”
Democratic strategist Joel Payne said the volume of it is not normal. “The kind of negativity feels a little different,” he said, and his own position is that voters should get the whole field.
