‘She Shouldn’t Have Run’: Mark Halperin Says Harris Should’ve Had Enough Self-Awareness To Know Trump Would Beat Her

Political analyst Mark Halperin said Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris should have known better than to face off against President-elect Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

Harris launched her presidential bid on July 21, the same day President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her. Halperin, on “The Chris Cuomo Project,” said Harris should have told Biden that she would not attempt to take on Trump because she should have recognized that her limitations would ultimately lead to a loss. (Stream The Daily Caller’s Latest Documentary ‘Cleaning Up Kamala’ HERE)

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“Joe Biden should never have run. He really shouldn’t have run in 2020, but he certainly shouldn’t have run for reelection. And she shouldn’t have run,” Halperin told host Chris Cuomo. “When Joe Biden called her and said, ‘I’m not gonna run maybe,’ she should have said, ‘You know what, I’m not gonna run either, because I can evaluate my capacity to beat Donald Trump in 100 days, and I’m not the right person. There may not be someone better, but I know it’s not me.’”

Cuomo asked Halperin why Harris should have believed she was not capable of defeating Trump.

“Well, not because she’s a woman, and not because she’s not white, and not because she shouldn’t be ambitious. Because she should know herself as well as I do in terms of knowing her — and I don’t know her all that well. I’ve known her a long time. She’s not good at making difficult choices under pressure,” Halperin asserted. “That is the job description of president and presidential candidate, and she should have said, ‘This is going to require a lot of very difficult decisions about how to talk about the Biden-Harris record. The biggest vulnerability Joe Biden had, besides his loss of acuity and his age, was our failed record. Anyone else isn’t going to have to defend the Biden-Harris record — maybe Pete Buttigieg would a little, but not the same way.’”

“And she should have said to herself, I think, ‘I’m not good at making difficult choices under pressure, and trying to figure out how to explain why the country should vote for me as part of an administration where they think the country’s on the wrong track is going to require making a lot of difficult decisions under pressure, and I shouldn’t do it.’ That’s what I think she should have done,” he added.

Halperin on Monday raised doubts about whether Harris has a future in presidential politics, given her 2024 and 2020 performances.

“I think it’s ridiculous, given her performance, for people to remove from the equation the question of, is she a good person at running for president? She’s now run twice and done poorly both times, and I think it’s incumbent upon the media and Democrats — have an honest and fair discussion about whether this is the right role for her, because she’s 0 for 2 in pretty dramatic fashion,” he said.

The vice president is directing her aides to maintain her political flexibility as she considers whether to launch another bid for the White House in 2028 or run to be California’s governor in 2026, five people in Harris’ inner circle told Politico.

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