Dem Comms Boss Floors Meet the Press Panel By Saying She’s ‘Very Excited About the Possibility’ Kamala Harris May Run Again

Kamala Harris’ 2028 campaign is officially a laughing matter on NBC’s Meet the Press.

Ashley Etienne, the former communications director for the ex-vice president, got a reaction from the Meet the Press panel on Sunday morning when she said she is “very excited about the possibility” of her old boss running for president again.

MTP host Kristen Welker, right after hearing that, turned and asked Marc Short, who was President Donald Trump’s director of legislative affairs during his first term, for his response.

“I think Republicans are equally excited to run against Kamala Harris,” Short quipped.

The remark drew an immediate laugh from Welker, while Short smirked and enjoyed how his joke landed.

Welker then turned to New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser for her thoughts, and Glasser said it is too “early” to discuss. Glasser said it is a question worth asking after the 2026 midterms.

Etienne, a moment earlier, explained why she wanted to see Harris run for president for a third time. She said the Democratic Party is currently suffering from several “major crises,” including an identity crisis and a “growing trust gap” with voters. Harris, she said, is a good candidate to fix those issues, despite her coming up short in the 2028 presidential election against Trump.

The MTP panel was asked about Harris running again after she gave, as MSNBC put it, her “strongest indication yet” that she is running in ’28. Harris said she is “not done,” in an interview with the BBC last week, and that led many pundits to presume that means she will give running for president another shot.

In related news, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) criticized Harris on Hannity on Fox News on Wednesday, saying she “lost the plot” when she called Trump a “fascist” weeks before the 2024 election. That approach is absurd and not successful with the average American, Fetterman told Sean Hannity.

Watch MTP discuss — and laugh about — Harris running in ’28 above.