Former presidential candidate Kamala Harris reportedly spoke with former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the last weeks of her vice presidency to discuss how to handle her loss in the 2024 election.
The two spoke multiple times since November 2024 about their shared experiences and how to handle the future, New York Magazine reported Thursday morning.
Harris reportedly slipped out of her official residence at the Naval Observatory to visit Clinton, who lived only a few blocks away, to chat in December. The two also celebrated together during a private reception for Clinton, who was awarded the Medal of Freedom by then-President Joe Biden. (RELATED: Bill Clinton Throws Harris Under The Bus At Her Own Campaign Event)
US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris delivers the eulogy for US Representative Sheila Jackson Lee as former secretary of state Hillary Clinton (L) and US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (R) applaud at Fallbrook Church in Houston, Texas, on August 1, 2024. Jackson Lee, a Democrat and outspoken advocate for racial justice and minorities’ rights, died July 19, 2024, at the age of 74. (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)
The relationship between the two began in 2017 when Harris first got to Washington, DC. On occasion, Harris would call on Clinton for advice when she was the senator for California and then as vice president, according to New York Magazine. When Biden suddenly dropped out of his 2024 presidential reelection bid in July, Clinton almost immediately endorsed Harris replacing him at the top of the ticket.
Both women lost to President Donald Trump. Clinton, a long time political insider and former secretary of state, lost to Trump, an outsider and businessman with no history of serving in political office, in an upset election in 2016. Clinton lost the electoral college votes handily and won more total votes than Trump.
Trump won both the electoral and popular vote against then-Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024.
Harris is weighing her options, including running for the presidency again in 2028 or for the governorship of California in 2026, or retiring from public life, according to New York Magazine.
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