If Republicans defy the polls and historical precedent this year and hold onto their House and Senate majorities, the reason will come down to one thing: voters rejected the Democrat Party's socialist shift.
That shift keeps handing the party establishment new headaches, as a wave of socialist candidates has gone from a fringe curiosity to an undeniable force majeure in the Democrat Party heading into the midterms. And now Kamala Harris is making it obvious she isn't fighting that shift. She's embracing it.
Next week, Kamala will join Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for Michigan's open Senate seat, at a roundtable focused on maternal and infant mortality disparities in the black community. We recently reported that most candidates in competitive elections don’t want Kamala near their races, which makes this development huge.
El-Sayed, for his part, sounds thrilled about Kamala’s participation for some reason. "I'm just really looking forward to having her here, and she is somebody who so many folks in communities like Detroit look up to as an inspirational leader," he told Politico. He added, "I'm grateful that she's coming in and having conversations about what it takes to get the turnout up, so that we can get on to working on some of these issues in the U.S. Senate." On the roundtable's shared focus, El-Sayed said, "This is an issue she's been a leader on. It's an issue I've been a leader on."
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Technically, Kamala hasn't said whether she's running for president again in 2028, but nobody in Democrat politics is pretending otherwise. Polls consistently place her at or near the top of the party's early, unofficial primary field. And yes, it’s largely because of name recognition, but she’s obviously treating it as a signal that it’s her moment to get a real chance to lose a third time. That's precisely why the El-Sayed appearance matters more than a single roundtable would suggest. Win or lose in November, Kamala stands to walk away with something valuable: a relationship with a rising socialist standard-bearer whose endorsement could carry real weight in a Democrat primary increasingly shaped by its left flank.
Here's the thing about Kamala's timing. She is building an alliance with the socialist wing of her party at the exact moment the establishment is holding its nose to embrace it. That's not an accident. It's a strategy for her inevitable 2028 campaign. Despite serving four years as the autopen’s vice president, Kamala appears to be positioning herself as the anti-establishment candidate and a true ally of the socialist wing.
Is it a good bet? Well, she has more to gain by allying with El-Sayed than he does. Michigan voters already rejected Kamala in 2024. So, it’s not the most advantageous thing for El-Sayed to be doing, but it probably won’t heavily influence the voters in November anyway. But it might buy her the endorsement she wants for 2028 and help her dominate the primary.
