Kamala Harris is extending her book tour into 2026 – however now it’s going to be about greater than promoting books.
The former vice chairman and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee on Wednesday morning introduced a slate of stops beginning in January and going each week by way of April, taking her past the bluest areas she targeted on for many of the tour that began on the finish of September. Harris has added stops in Mississippi and Alabama in addition to prime Democratic areas in swing states like Detroit and Madison, Wisconsin.
Harris is at present making an attempt to kind out what position she needs to have — and what position candidates will ask her to have — on the midterm marketing campaign path. She made just one cease in the 2025 campaigns, diverting from a book tour cease in Tennessee for a short look on behalf of the Democrat who would lose a US House particular election this month. She didn’t point out state Rep. Aftyn Behn’s identify throughout the cease.
But after passing on a run for California governor in 2026, Harris is additionally mulling whether or not there is one other presidential marketing campaign in her future, a run that might possible require the subsequent Democratic nominee to take again Michigan and Wisconsin after President Donald Trump’s 2024 win.
“The vice president wants to keep listening and sharing what she’s heard with a focus on the future: what people want from their leaders, where we’ve fallen short, how we re-invent, and what it will take to move forward beyond this political moment,” mentioned her spokeswoman, Kirsten Allen.
Harris’ memoir of her presidential marketing campaign has been on the bestseller lists for 10 weeks. Much of the tour has been revisiting the moments from the marketing campaign and grappling with Democrats’ emotions in regards to the everyday of the second Trump administration. The spring tour, although, will mark a brand new stage.
On Friday, she’s set to talk to a gathering of Democratic National Committee members in Los Angeles.
“I don’t think this is about nostalgia,” Harris informed NCS in September about how she noticed the tour then. “I wrote the book with the intention that this would be about remembering where we were, only for the purposes of contextualizing this moment, and then thinking about where we have to go.”