Kamala Harris provides a big signal about her next move

[question everything]

Kamala Harris hasn’t made any public decisions about what her political future is going to be — but she has already created the organization that will help fuel it.

The former vice president established an LLC called Pioneer49 last month in her home state of California, according to her presidential campaign's final financial disclosure that was filed last week and confirmed by a person familiar with the organization's plans. The disclosure form described the organization as an “entity to assist the former vice president” and is likely to help fuel Harris’ next political move.

Pioneer” is Harris’ code name used by the Secret Service, and her LLC takes on the same naming convention used by former President Barack Obama in creating the organization Renegade44 when he left office. (Harris is the 49th vice president.)

Harris has kept any considerations about political future close to the vest, but she has told advisers and allies to keep her options open, POLITICO reported in November. There are essentially three options for Harris: run for governor of California in 2026, run for president again in 2028 or decline to run for office and be a leader of the party from the sidelines.

Harris, who flew to California after President Donald Trump's inauguration, is expected to confer with close aides, allies and family over the next few months to make a decision about her next steps.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-provides-big-signal-212508823.html

[oasis]

1. Democratic Party leader. 100% Okay by me.👍

[Mountainguy]

2. Governor of CA seems like a good play

Don't really want a retread in 2028. Party needs a fresh face that the country doesn't already know.

[yorkster]

3. Hell, she was only a candidate for president

for a few months.

[Mountainguy]

4. Which is only a couple of months shorter than anyone else

And she wasn't a secret, she was VP for 4 years and a well known senator well before that. Everyone has an opinion on her already

[Think. Again.]

13. And she had a very strong following...

...and still does.

[Mountainguy]

16. And she lost

And lost the popular vote to a non incumbent R for the first time since 1988.

[Think. Again.]

17. If you're saying we should support the one who won...

I disagree.

[Mountainguy]

20. What are you even talking about?

I don't want to run a candidate who has already lost

[dwayneb]

18. Dead on

If Kamala Harris runs again - she will lose. There is zero doubt about it.

We need new, fresh candidates that must emerge from the youth of this country. That's the only way that Progressives and Liberals will survive into the future. It's the only way that this democracy will survive. Will it happen? I am not encouraged when I look around at the apathy of today's youth. Most don't have a clue about the fact that their futures and freedoms are hanging by a thread.

[yorkster]

5. Too tired to pursue this.

Just think she would gave been damn good.

[intheflow]

6. Okay, but this is poor messaging, calling the LLC "Pioneer."

I get it was the Secret Service’s name for her, but language matters, and as we know, the Secret Service is not the most enlightened agency. In this country, white pioneers are mythologized as hero’s but in truth, they killed Indigenous Americans and stole their land. What pioneers did in the name of manifest destiny was a precursor to Tulsa and Rosewood, which were precursors to today. Trump and MAGA believe it’s their manifest destiny to return society to those times, where they could legally string up or beat up anyone they don’t like and steal their wealth.

I’m speaking as a descendent of white settler colonialists who knows her history. It’s OldThink to consider pioneers as heroes, it’s so white and 20th Century. Better messaging would have been to choose a symbol of hope or transformation, like a sunrise or a dragonfly.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Pioneer is not only for white "settlers". It is also for scientific and societal pioneers.

Harris was certainly a pioneer in her position as VP.

Fauci was a pioneer of AIDS research.

Einstein was a pioneer.

Neil Armstrong was a pioneer.

The Little Rock students in the 1950s desegregation were pioneers.

Rosa Parks was a pioneer.

[VMA131Marine]

7. She should run for Governor of California

[obamanut2012]

15. I really hope she does

[Comrade Citizen]

8. Make it global scale

VP Harris deserves to be considered as a world leader, leading a global institution.

[Buddyzbuddy]

9. My choices for my next Governor are V.P. Harris or

Katie Porter in that order.

[Nasruddin]

10. Something outside elected office

She has a lot of talents but the party does not have a history of regarding its...
unsuccessful candidates highly and revisiting them for another go-round.
Leadership of cause / interest group?

[AZJonnie]

12. Good to get what little news we can, but lol'd at the bait and switch headline they picked

Like for real I got to the end and went "Damn, Yahoo got me that time!' and laughed.

[videohead5]

14. She would be a shoo-in

For Governor of California.

[pinkstarburst]

19. I hope she runs for CA governor