Kamala Harris, former US vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate in the 2024 elections, has hinted at a possible run for a shot at the White House top job.
President Donald Trump won the tightly contested race after he secured 312 electoral college votes against Harris’s 226.
In an interview with the BBC, the former vice-president described her loss as surprising and traumatising.
“My God, my God, what will happen to our country?” Harris said she repeated when the result came through.
She had less than four months to prepare after former President Joe Biden abruptly withdrew from the race following months of speculation about his mental alertness.
Though Harris has largely kept a low profile since her defeat, she was thrust back into the spotlight recently with the release of her new book, 107 Days, which chronicles her whirlwind campaign.
“I am not done,” an excerpt from her book reads.
In the BBC interview, Harris said her grandnieces would see a woman in charge in the White House “in their lifetime, for sure”.
Asked if it would be her, she answered “possibly”.
When the journalist probed if she had made a decision yet, she said, “No, I have not.”
Pressed on a passage from her book, Harris stood by her claim that she’s “not done” yet remained evasive about any plans for a presidential comeback.
“I am not done. I have lived my entire career a life of service, and it’s in my bones,” she said.
“There are many ways to serve. I have not decided yet what I will do in the future beyond what I am doing now.”
Responding to odds that place her as an outsider to win a place on the Democratic ticket, Harris said she never listened to polls.
“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 at this interview,” she said.
Harris also said she believed predictions she made about Trump running an authoritarian government had come true.
Abigail Jackson, the White House spokesperson, said the American people did not care about Harris “absurd lies”.
