Contrary to what the mainstream media would have you believe, not everyone cares about former Vice President Kamala Harris returning to her home in California. In fact, her neighbors were recently asked what they thought about Harris possibly becoming the next governor of the state, to which many responded with nothing more than a shrug.
Some figures from early polls concerning the 2026 gubernatorial race in California have the former vice president gathering very little support beyond the baseline she gets by name recognition with the general public. It’s widely rumored that Harris is currently considering a run for the governorship before giving the White House a second go in the 2028 presidential election.
If you were to do a “man on the streets” style segment and ask registered voters in California about Harris potentially running for governor, you’ll get a wide variety of emotional responses. Some will be over joyed by the prospect, while others will be outraged, with some even feeling hopeless about the whole ordeal according to new polling data culled from Politico and the UC Berkeley Citrin Center.
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Respondents were given a list of adjectives to choose from when asked how they felt about a Governor Harris — “joyful,” “mostly excited,” “indifferent,” “irritated,” “outraged,” “hopeless,” or other — and could select multiple options. The poll was then presented to two distinct groups: registered voters and “policy influencers,” a select pod of state and federal lawmakers, staffers, and other paid subscribers to Politico publications.
Among the latter, 36% of influencers in the heavily-Democratic state favored the term “indifferent” to describe their ambivalence toward a Harris campaign for governor. That’s not surprising, some of her former in-state peers say.
“She’s never been that popular in the California political high school,” Mike Murphy, a Los Angeles-based anti-Trump GOP strategist went on to say. An almost identical number of folks on the inside revealed they would either feel “excited” or “irritated” about Harris giving the governor’s mansion a shot next year at 22 percent and 20 percent.
The passion and pessimism for Harris was even more pronounced among registered voters, however. The former vice president captures the hearts of California Democrats, with three in four saying they are either “joyful” or “excited” about a potential 2026 run. But a deeper look into the feelings of registered independent voters reveals possible weaknesses: 26% said they felt “irritated” by the prospect of a Harris campaign for governor while another 21% said it made them feel mostly “hopeless.”
A total of two in ten registered voters in the Golden State are independent, not belonging to either political party, compared to one in four folks being Republican. Both of these groups are more than a little irritated at the idea of having the former vice president as the next governor. This could lead to her taking a moment to think this whole idea through and see it’s actually a bad idea since Democrats are less than half of all voters in the state.
Can you blame people for not wanting Harris as their governor? The woman is a hot mess. And I’m being generous here. The lack of coherent speech when she talks, the inability to explain her policy positions — outside of baby murder, “abortion” — the extremely bad policy agenda she’s had previously, all suggest this lady is not at all cut out to be a national leader of any kind.
“Harris has told allies she’s set an end-of-summer deadline for herself on whether to jump into the race to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom. Other rumored contenders, including Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, a close Harris friend, have floated backup plans to supporters about running if she opts against it,” Trending Politics News reported.
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