‘The Past Haunts Democrats’: Chris Cillizza Warns Kamala Harris Comeback Is ‘Problem’ For Her Party

NewsNation political contributor Chris Cillizza warned on his YouTube channel Thursday that former Vice President Kamala Harris’ return to the spotlight will be damaging to the Democratic Party.

While Harris announced on Wednesday that she would not seek the governorship in California, she did not rule out a 2028 presidential run and revealed on Thursday that she had written a book on her 2024 campaign, which she has already begun promoting. Cillizza said on his channel that Harris would serve as a reminder “of a bad period” at a time when Democrats are already extremely unpopular.

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“The problem for Democrats is that Harris, as a public figure, as a potential 2028 candidate, keeps a conversation alive that they really don’t want to have,” Cillizza said. “Which is: how much did she know about Joe Biden while she was in the White House? Why didn’t she speak out more? Why did the party wind up becoming defined as weak and woke and just anti- Trump?”

“She reminds people of a bad period. People do not like Democrats right now. And I think a lot of that has to do with Biden. It has to do with the handoff to Harris without anyone voting for her,” he continued. “And it has to do with the campaign she ran in those 107 days. I think Democrats — but the country more broadly — want to move on from that period of time.”