Stephen Colbert Should Pull A Reverse Seth Meyers and Convince Kamala Harris Not to Run for President Again
Tonight, former Vice President Kamala Harris will make a last-minute appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, despite the fact that she was never supposed to be on the schedule and no one besides the Late Show establishment wants her there.
This week, Harris announced that she will release a memoir about her abbreviated 2024 presidential campaign titled 107 Days later this year, and she also informed her followers that she will not run for Governor of California in the state’s 2026 election. These two bulletins, coupled with the start of what suspiciously appears to be a media blitz, have pundits and political strategists speculating that Harris is beginning to lay the groundwork for another presidential campaign in 2028.
If so, it’s incumbent upon the world of political comedy to mockingly make sure that the candidate who couldn’t poll higher than 6 percent in her home state’s 2020 primary strongly reconsiders such a move.
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Following Paramount’s probably politically motivated decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in appeasement of President Donald Trump, viewers braced themselves for a gloves-off version of the show that will take no prisoners and suffer no fools. If Colbert wants to make his last few months behind the desk count, he should start tonight by doing the exact opposite of what Seth Meyers did to Trump at the 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner and use his comedy to convince Harris that the presidency isn’t in the cards for her, so long as the DNC can’t stack the deck.
The last time Harris appeared on The Late Show, the then-VP was less than three months into her presidential campaign following President Joe Biden’s way-too-late decision to drop out of the race. With no time to hold a proper primary, the Democratic Party leadership made the executive decision to throw their full weight behind Harris, who, as previously mentioned, couldn’t even crack the top three candidates in the 2020 Democratic primary in California, the state where she built her entire political career.
In an embarrassingly on-the-nose attempt to make Harris seem approachable and relatable, Colbert invited the Vice President to crack open a beer with him, pointing out that Miller High Life comes from the swing state of Wisconsin. President Trump would still go on to win Wisconsin along with most of the Midwest and literally every swing state, despite the best efforts of Colbert to make Harris as palatable as the “champagne of beers.”
Truthfully, if Democrats like Colbert want to have any chance to win back the White House in 2028 from either Trump’s GOP successor or Trump himself, should he succeed in toppling the Constitution entirely, they have no reason to believe that Harris, fresh off the most embarrassing popular vote loss in decades, should be the face of the party moving forward. But, unfortunately, Colbert will probably be content to play softball with the party plant whose presidential ambitions are equal parts unrealistic and unsustainable so long as they require her to actually win an election.
Tonight, we’re going to learn whether Trump should have even bothered to make Paramount cancel one of his most prominent critics, or if the President should have just let Colbert continue to prop up the softest opposition he’s ever seen.
