The warning was devastating.
Not from a Republican attack ad, but from the man who once helped make Kamala Harris a star. Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown quietly told a podcaster that Harris should never have taken the vice presidency—and shouldn’t run California either. He says she belongs in the legal world, not the governor’s mansion. But that’s not the part that stung mo… …
Willie Brown’s private doubts about Kamala Harris cut deeper because they come from someone who helped launch her career and once shared both political and personal ties with her. In his conversation with podcaster Jon Slavet, Brown argued that Harris is fundamentally miscast as an executive, saying her real strengths lie in law, not leadership of a state or nation. He even urged her, back in 2020, to reject Joe Biden’s offer of the vice presidency and instead seek the attorney general role, where he believed she could eventually rise to the Supreme Court.
Harris ignored that advice—and, according to Brown, never called him again. Now, with her vice-presidential perks gone, her national polling sliding, and California insiders whispering that 2028 looks bleak, the question is brutal and simple: is there any lane left where Kamala Harris can still win, or has her greatest opportunity already passed her by?