{"id":21154,"date":"2026-04-10T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/harris-gives-her-clearest-signal-she-is-mounting-a-2028-presidential-bid\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T16:31:42","slug":"harris-gives-her-clearest-signal-she-is-mounting-a-2028-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/harris-gives-her-clearest-signal-she-is-mounting-a-2028-presidential-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris gives her clearest signal she is mounting a 2028 presidential bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Kamala Harris just gave the Democratic Party the most explicit sign yet she\u2019ll run for president in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, I might, I might. I\u2019m thinking about it,\u201d Harris told the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network convention on Friday, when he asked her whether she will run again in 2028. \u201cI\u2019ll keep you posted,\u201d she said as she walked off the stage, concluding a roughly 40-minute appearance that was peppered with cheers and a standing ovation from attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The former vice president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2n7k2veywo\" target=\"_blank\">has toyed with the idea<\/a> before, but her comments Friday took on a new meaning in front of an audience full of Black lawmakers, influential power brokers and voters at what amounted to the first major cattle-call for the potential 2028 Democratic field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what the job is and what it requires,\u201d she told Sharpton on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was the sixth possible 2028 contender to take the stage at the conference for a fireside chat with Sharpton, a tacit acknowledgement that whether the hopefuls ultimately decide to run or not, they know they can\u2019t skip this room. But Harris was received with the most enthusiasm from the audience compared to any of the Democrats who spoke earlier this week, including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). <\/p>\n<p>The crowd in the packed ballroom chanted, \u201cRun again! Run again!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At one point, the cheers for Harris grew to such a tenor, Sharpton jokingly admonished the crowd: \u201cThis is a convention, not a revival.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Kamala Harris just gave the Democratic Party the most explicit sign yet she\u2019ll run for president in 2028. \u201cListen, I might, I might. I\u2019m thinking about it,\u201d Harris told the Rev. Al Sharpton at the National Action Network convention on Friday, when he asked her whether she will run again in 2028. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}