‘Should have taken the hint!’ White House fumes as Kamala Harris teases third run

Former Vice President Kamala Harris made her “strongest suggestion to date” that she was considering a third run for the White House in an interview with BBC published Saturday, sparking an attack from the White House over her failed past attempts to win the presidency.

Harris was asked by BBC if she would make another bid for president following her past two attempts, to which she said “possibly,” BBC reported. She also noted that her grandnieces would love to see a female president “in their lifetime, for sure.”

“I am not done," Harris said, speaking with BBC. "I have lived my entire career as a life of service and it's in my bones… If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office – and I certainly wouldn't be sitting here."

Harris also went on to call President Donald Trump a “tyrant,” arguing that all of her warnings about him she made along the campaign trail were ultimately proven right.

Asked for comment on Harris’ remarks, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson dismissed her critiques of Trump in a response to BBC, and mocked the former presidential candidate as having not “taken the hint.”

“When Kamala Harris lost the election in a landslide, she should've taken the hint - the American people don't care about her absurd lies,” Jackson told BBC. “Or maybe she did take the hint and that's why she's continuing to air her grievances to foreign publications."

Among prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, Harris continues to perform relatively strongly, coming in at second behind California Gov. Gavin Newsom in the latest ReaClearPolitics poll average, which aggregates polling data from major pollsters.

While Harris was tight-lipped on her future plans, she didn’t mince words in her interview with BBC on what she thought of Trump’s second term in the White House.

“He said he would weaponise the Department of Justice - and he has done exactly that,” Harris said.

“You look at what has happened in terms of how he has weaponized, for example, federal agencies going around after political satirists… His skin is so thin he couldn't endure criticism from a joke, and attempted to shut down an entire media organization in the process."