Undoubtedly, former Vice President Kamala Harris is leaning on her closest advisors to help her determine whether or not to run for California governor in 2026 or even president in 2028.

As she does, however, with a decision on the 2026 race reportedly coming by the end of the summer, some fundraisers and big-money Democrat donors are said to be ambivalent about the possibility she’ll run to lead the Golden State, with “several major donors in the state” telling POLITICO “they fear her reemergence as a candidate would re-open still-fresh wounds from her defeat in 2024.”

Further, some prominent Democrat political figures in California with whom Harris has a complicated history are also weighing in, with former SF mayor and ex-state assembly speaker Willie Brown, whom Harris had a relationship with in the mid-1990s while Brown was married, suggesting in a recent interview that “She may not want to run for Governor. I think it will be difficult for her to win that job.”