President Trump has some recommendation for former foe Kamala Harris if she runs for California governor subsequent yr.
“Let her run,” Trump, 78, informed OutKick’s Clay Travis throughout an interview Saturday when requested about her future. “I don’t wish to be [giving] folks recommendation politically, however one factor she’s gotta begin doing is she’s gotta begin giving interviews.
“[Former President Joe Biden] — during the COVID thing, he did no interviews, and he got away with it because of COVID.”
Since her defeat towards Trump in November, Harris, 60, has been rumored to be mulling three essential choices about her political future: working for California governor in 2026, vying for the presidency once more in 2028 and staying on the sidelines as a Dem powerbroker.
Incumbent California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is term-limited, leaving an enormous opening for Harris.
Harris has laid low since departing the White Home in January, declining to do any public interviews and solely making just a few appearances such because the 56th annual NAACP Picture Awards final month.
Through the 2024 election cycle, Harris had a guarded method to the media. Some Dem operatives lamented the truth that she by no means went on podcast titan Joe Rogan’s present.
Against this, Trump engaged in a method of blitzing impartial media, sitting down with a variety of personalities resembling Rogan, Theo Von and Andrew Schultz.
The president has credited his teenage son Barron with serving to him choose the podcasts with which to do interviews.
Vice President JD Vance additionally served as Trump’s assault canine with conventional media retailers in the course of the 2024 race. Trump had bombarded conventional media retailers throughout his 2016 marketing campaign as nicely.
Harris’ vice presidential choose, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), has since complained that the marketing campaign equipment hamstrung him when it got here to doing interviews in the course of the race.
Walz stated that he provided to do considerably extra public occasions in the course of the race’s homestretch final yr however that the marketing campaign rejected his suggestion, in keeping with CNN.
“There’s a danger – and I would argue I did it maybe during the campaign – of fighting the last battle instead of the next one,” Walz stated, in keeping with the outlet.
“This is a whole different opponent fighting a whole different battle. And all of our past history that tells us how we should have approached this, I don’t think holds true.”
Walz lately took it on the chin from Caitlyn Jenner when she mocked him for suggesting that conservatives worry his masculinity. Jenner, who’s transgender, joked that she is extra masculine than Walz.
Trump, requested throughout Saturday’s interview about who would win a battle between Jenner and Walz,” replied, Oh, Caitlyn Jenner all day lengthy.”
Through the interview with OutKick, Trump additionally mused that being elected in between phrases “confirmed how dangerous [Dems] have been.
“What they were doing didn’t work,” he stated.
Whereas reflecting on the distinction between his first and second administrations, Trump took notice of how he’s garnered extra allies, together with within the tech business this time round.
“If you look at the inauguration — look at the people that were there — it was a who’s who of a world that was totally against me the first time,” Trump stated. “So a much different presidency. I have much more support.”
