Gavin Newsom has spent the last year and a half positioning himself as the Democratic Party's inevitable 2028 presidential nominee, complete with the hair gel and the practiced smirk. There's just one small problem — Kamala Harris apparently didn't get the memo that she was supposed to go away quietly, and her most loyal voters aren't exactly in a forgiving mood.
Isn't it beautiful when Democrats eat their own?
According to a report from AMAC Newsline by Larry Elder, the former Vice President has signaled interest in running for president again in 2028, setting up what might be the most entertaining Democratic primary in a generation. Newsom currently leads in the polls among Democratic hopefuls, but Harris has something he can never manufacture — over 92% of Black female voter support from exit polls in 2024. That's not a coalition. That's a wall.
And here's where it gets really fun for those of us who enjoy watching the Left trip over its own identity politics. The Democratic Party has spent decades telling Black women they are the "backbone of the party." They've said it so many times it became a bumper sticker. Author Sophia A. Nelson put it more bluntly, saying Black women are "the mules of the world." Now Newsom has to walk into South Carolina — where 60% of Democratic primary voters are Black, and 60-65% of those are Black women — and explain why the party's most loyal demographic should pass on electing the first Black female president so they can vote for... a white guy from San Francisco.
Good luck with that pitch, Governor.
The Los Angeles Times reported that major Harris donors from 2024 are showing "little outward enthusiasm" for funding another campaign, with several declining support or not even bothering to respond to inquiries. So the money people are running from her. But here's what the consultant class always forgets — primaries aren't won in Malibu fundraisers. They're won in churches in Columbia, South Carolina, and community centers in Detroit, and Kamala Harris doesn't need a super PAC when she has a demographic that votes for her at 92%.
Let's be honest about what happened in 2024. Harris lost every single swing state. She underperformed Joe Biden across nearly every demographic group. Trump pulled 20% of Black male voters — a number that would have been unthinkable a decade ago and one that should terrify every Democratic strategist with a functioning brain cell. She was, by any rational measure, a historically weak general election candidate.
But Democratic primaries don't run on general election logic. They run on grievance, identity, and who can claim the most oppression points at any given moment. And the second Newsom tries to push Harris aside, every activist with a Twitter account is going to ask the same question that TheGrio already floated — "Can a sista get a break?"
This is the trap the Democratic Party built for itself. They created a coalition held together entirely by identity group loyalty, and now they can't pick a candidate without one of those groups feeling betrayed. Newsom can't win without Black women. Harris can't win a general election. And neither of them can get out of the other's way without the whole thing collapsing into a circular firing squad.
We should all be so lucky.
The man who presided over California's decline — the rolling blackouts, the homeless encampments, the businesses fleeing to Texas, the wildfires nobody bothered to prevent — now wants to run the whole country. And the woman who was handed the vice presidency as a diversity hire and then got obliterated in the general wants a do-over. These are the Democrats' two best options.
Meanwhile, President Trump is in the White House actually governing, and the Left is about to spend the next two years fighting over which brand of failure gets the nomination.
Pull up a chair, folks. This is going to be spectacular.