Former Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday surprised “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert with her “very candid” reason for not wanting to be a public servant right now.
Harris, who announced this week that she wouldn’t run for California governor, recalled her long career in public office and said, “I just, for now, I don’t want to go back in the system. I think it’s broken.”
The 2024 Democratic presidential candidate acknowledged the “many good people” in the public sector and said she “always believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our systems would be strong enough to defend our most fundamental principles.”
But amid President Donald Trump’s second term, she said, “I think right now that they’re not as strong as they need to be, and I just don’t want to, for now, I don’t want to go back in the system. I want to travel the country. I want to listen to people, I want to talk with people, and I don’t want it to be transactional, where I’m asking for their vote.”
Colbert said: “To hear you say that it’s broken, to hear you say that our systems aren’t strong enough, is harrowing.”
Harris asked him: “But it’s also evident, isn’t it?”
She then clarified that it “doesn’t mean we give up.”
She added, “Oh, absolutely not. I am always going to be part of the fight. That is not going to change.”
Harris was on the show to promote her new book, “107 Days,” which she described as a “behind-the-scenes” tell-all about her 2024 bid for president, the shortest ever run for the White House after former President Joe Biden abandoned his reelection campaign.
At another point in the interview, Colbert noted Harris’ warnings about what Trump would do if he won. “I know you’re not here to say, ‘I told you so,’ but would you like to?” the host asked Harris.
Harris acknowledged her correct predictions but said she didn’t foresee “the capitulation” to the current president, suggesting she had been “naive.”
Elsewhere in the chat, Harris admitted it was months after leaving office that she watched the news because “I’m just not into self-mutilation” and teased how her husband, former second gentleman Doug Emhoff, “dropped the ball” on her big 60th birthday last October, which was just weeks before the election.
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