by Daniel Johnson
August 2, 2025
Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris sat down with late evening discuss present host Stephen Colbert.
Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris advised late evening discuss present host Stephen Colbert on July 30 throughout her TV look on “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” that she believes that the political system in the US because it presently exists is damaged, and America’s model of Democracy is fragile.
In response to The Washington Put up, Harris, who has beforehand stated that she won’t be operating for governor in California, pointed the blame at Congress, significantly on the Republicans who’re falling consistent with the needs of Donald Trump as an alternative of defending the American individuals from his explicit model of tyranny.
The complete trade between Kamala Harris and Stephen Colbert on operating for workplace:
“And lately I made the choice that I only for now, I do not need to return within the system.”
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Congress, Harris stated, is “sitting on their palms” and refusing to “stand in the best way” of a few of Trump’s extra disastrous gadgets on his agenda, earlier than noting that the techniques of presidency that folks depend upon to safeguard them have been cracking underneath the burden of Trumpian autocracy, which they have been by no means designed to assist.
“I all the time believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our techniques could be sturdy sufficient to defend our most elementary ideas, and I believe proper now that they’re not as sturdy as they have to be,” Harris famous.
She continued, saying that those that “take into account themselves to be guardians of our system and our democracy,” have capitulated to Trump. “Look, we designed our democracy with three unbiased, coequal branches of presidency. I imply, whenever you see that the president of the US is attempting to do away with the Division of Schooling, and Congress has the function and accountability to face in the best way of that, and so they’re simply sitting on their palms, after which they go to recess.”
Harris, who’s releasing a memoir on Sept. 23 titled “107 Days,” which particulars her expertise operating a truncated marketing campaign for president in 2024 additionally gave a number of particulars about her newest ebook.
In response to The New York Occasions, the ebook will element a topic she declined to debate on the present, particularly, the issue in separating herself from Joe Biden throughout her marketing campaign for president.
She did, nonetheless, observe that she wished for the ebook to strike a hopeful tone and encourage readers to imagine that they might see themselves getting concerned within the political course of.
“I hope, by penning this ebook, one of many issues that I do is assist individuals see from the within what it’s in a approach that they will see one thing about themselves that tells them, ‘Hey, I may do this,’” Harris advised Colbert.
Harris additionally struck a hopeful tone when she was requested about the way forward for the Democratic Get together, noting that she doesn’t see the way forward for the get together mirrored by one determine, but when the get together is to rebound, it is going to be a collective effort.
“I believe it’s a mistake for us who need to determine how you can get out and thru this to place it on the shoulders on anybody particular person: It’s actually on all of our shoulders,” she stated on the conclusion of the interview.
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