Kamala Harris Says U.S. Democracy Is ‘Damaged’

[ad_1] by Daniel Johnson August 2, 2025

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris sat down with late night time discuss present host Stephen Colbert.

Former Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris informed late night time discuss present host Stephen Colbert on July 30 throughout her TV look on “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert” that she believes that the political system in the USA because it at the moment exists is damaged, and America’s model of Democracy is fragile.

In line with The Washington Submit, Harris, who has beforehand mentioned that she is not going to be operating for governor in California, pointed the blame at Congress, notably on the Republicans who're falling according to the desires of Donald Trump as a substitute of defending the American folks from his explicit model of tyranny.

The total alternate between Kamala Harris and Stephen Colbert on operating for workplace:

"And lately I made the choice that I only for now, I do not need to return within the system."

Reminder that Kamala Harris, till January twentieth, WAS the system. pic.twitter.com/tzvXBltOz5

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Congress, Harris mentioned, is “sitting on their arms” and refusing to “stand in the way in which” of a few of Trump’s extra disastrous gadgets on his agenda, earlier than noting that the techniques of presidency that individuals rely upon to safeguard them have been cracking beneath the load of Trumpian autocracy, which they have been by no means designed to help.

“I at all times believed that as fragile as our democracy is, our techniques could be sturdy sufficient to defend our most basic rules, and I feel proper now that they’re not as sturdy as they have to be,” Harris famous.

She continued, saying that those that “contemplate themselves to be guardians of our system and our democracy,” have capitulated to Trump. “Look, we designed our democracy with three unbiased, coequal branches of presidency. I imply, whenever you see that the president of the USA is making an attempt to eliminate the Division of Schooling, and Congress has the function and duty to face in the way in which of that, they usually’re simply sitting on their arms, after which they go to recess.”

Harris, who's releasing a memoir on Sept. 23 titled “107 Days,” which particulars her expertise operating a truncated marketing campaign for president in 2024 additionally gave a couple of particulars about her newest e book.

In line with The New York Instances, the e book will element a topic she declined to debate on the present, specifically, the problem in separating herself from Joe Biden throughout her marketing campaign for president.

She did, nonetheless, observe that she wished for the e book to strike a hopeful tone and encourage readers to imagine that they may see themselves getting concerned within the political course of.

“I hope, by scripting this e book, one of many issues that I do is assist folks see from the within what it's in a manner that they'll see one thing about themselves that tells them, ‘Hey, I might do this,’” Harris informed Colbert.

Harris additionally struck a hopeful tone when she was requested about the way forward for the Democratic Get together, noting that she doesn’t see the way forward for the get together mirrored by one determine, but when the get together is to rebound, it will likely be a collective effort.

“I feel it's a mistake for us who need to work out the way to get out and thru this to place it on the shoulders on anybody individual: It’s actually on all of our shoulders,” she mentioned on the conclusion of the interview.