Kamala Harris made a grand return to her home state of California late Monday after Donald Trump’s inauguration, where she met with first responders and toured the ongoing wildfire damage in Los Angeles.
Her public remarks during the visit in many ways mirrored her comments from last week on the devastation in that they didn’t make a whole lot of sense. On Wednesday’s show, Megyn was joined by Sasha Stone, host of Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning, to discuss Harris’ latest word salad and what comes next for the former vice president.
Harris Returns to CA
After Harris received the traditional sendoff from Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance on the steps of the Capitol Building on Monday, she and her husband, Doug Emhoff, made their way back to southern California.
Politico reported Harris’ flight from Joint Base Andrews to the Golden State was “supported by an all-female U.S. Air Force crew.” The couple were returning to their shared home in Brentwood – an area that had previously been under evacuation orders due to the deadly blazes – but not before a photo-op in hard hit Altadena.
The outlet said the former VP had told aides she wanted to make the trip to L.A. sooner but a visit never materialized during her final days in office. Politico noted Harris planned to distribute food to victims in partnership with World Central Kitchen as well.
Those engagements all appear to have taken place, and Harris also found her way to a microphone to serve up but her latest word salad:
HARRIS: …We went and visited World Central Kitchen. I mean, the volunteers who are there, some of whom lost their own homes, are there doing the work of taking care of perfect strangers, who, in the face of that stranger, see a neighbor. These are folks who understand the strength and the value of community, which is everyone coming together with a shared sense of purpose and identity as a community of people…
The message was similar in its wordiness to what she told victims during an Oval Office briefing last week. “It’s critically important that, to the extent you can find anything that gives you an ability to be patient in this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis, that you do,” she said at the time.
Harris 2028?
The outing came as rumors continue to swirl around what Harris’ political future holds, including whether she will run for governor of California in 2026 or even president again in 2028. “Kamala Harris is gone, but she is not forgotten. She went out to the L.A. wildfires as her first post-vice presidency act,” Megyn noted. “And she had a lovely profundity… I think this is really going to buoy your moods.”
Stone, who lives in California, was unmoved. “I don’t understand what her play is here,” she said. “Is she actually going to make a run for it in 2028? I don’t even think she can make governor because… someone will run against her and they will beat her.”
In her view, Harris’ political career should be over. “She could be a prosecutor, whatever,” Stone concluded. “But she can’t be a politician.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with Stone by tuning in to episode 988 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.