Kamala tells Stephen Colbert she wants to be an outsider to a 'broken' political system

Kamala Harris spoke to Stephen Colbert on The Late Show Thursday night to promote her new book, and the two agreed that the "system is broken." Harris was on the show to promote her new book "107 Days" about her very brief run for president in 2024 after her boss President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her. She lost roundly to President Donald Trump.

In their conversation, she spoke about having been a political insider, tackling the problems she saw from within the system. Now, she said, she wants to be on the outside and to work from without.
Colbert asked her why she decided not to run for governor of her home state of California. "You said you're gonna sit this one out," he asked. "Why are you sitting this out? Are you saving yourself for a different office that might be—"

At that people cheered, knowing he meant the office of the presidency, which she lost roundly to Donald Trump in November 2024. "No, no," she assured them.