{"id":2642248,"date":"2026-08-09T00:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-says-democrats-must-have-a-certain-kind-of-ruthlessness\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T00:54:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T04:54:35","slug":"kamala-harris-says-democrats-must-have-a-certain-kind-of-ruthlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-says-democrats-must-have-a-certain-kind-of-ruthlessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris says Democrats &#8216;must have a certain kind of ruthlessness&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkamala-harris-says-democrats-must-have-a-certain-kind-of-ruthlessness%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2642248&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Kamala Harris, the former vice President, emphasized the need for the Democratic Party to embrace \u201cleaders who have moral conviction and know how to fight,\u201d during a speech at Louisiana\u2019s Democratic fundraising gala. She highlighted that Americans want leaders willing to fight against injustices and suggested the party should adopt a more ruthless approach in defending against corruption and inequality. Harris criticized the current political and economic system, pointing to rising costs of living, high campaign finance influence, and recent Supreme Court decisions such as Louisiana vs. Callais, which she views as setbacks. She also indicated increasing engagement in the South, referencing her visits to states like Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia, especially after the Supreme Court ruling on racial gerrymandering. Harris has conveyed support for abolishing the Electoral College and expanding the Supreme Court, and has remained active publicly sence leaving the White House in January 2025, including publishing a book and engaging with contemporary political issues. Despite her loss to Trump in 2024, polls show she remains a strong contender for the Democratic nomination in 2028.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/#google_vignette\">Kamala Harris<\/a> said Friday night the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\">Democratic Party<\/a> must embrace \u201cleaders who have moral conviction and know how to fight\u201d in a speech at the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/louisiana\/\">Louisiana<\/a> Democratic Party\u2019s annual <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fundraising\/\">fundraising gala<\/a> that focused on affordability and the party\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs I travel the country, people are saying \u2018we want our leaders to fight,&#8217;\u201d the former 2024 presidential nominee told hundreds of attendees. \u201cAnd in this fight, I say we start by getting comfortable with some things, including having a certain kind of ruthlessness,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/4680320\/kamala-harris-democrats-ruthlessness-2028-talk-continues\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Kamala Harris says Democrats \u2018must have a certain kind of ruthlessness\u2019 as 2028 talk continues<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/4678584\/tucker-carlson-2028-allies-see-constituency\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Could Tucker Carlson run in 2028? 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I mean the kind that is uncompromising in its impatience with injustice, that shows no mercy for corruption, that fights back hard when they threaten the power of the people,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is the kind of ruthlessness that must be the attitude of the Democratic Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris spent most of her speech chastising Republicans and speaking of a \u201cbroken status quo\u201d as she sought to take advantage of rising prices under the Trump administration stemming from the conflict in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn today\u2019s America, the cost of living is a crisis,\u201d she said. \u201cBut those at the very top don\u2019t seem to get it. I guess they just can\u2019t see it from way up there. And as power has concentrated in the hands of the top of our economy, power has also concentrated in our politics. We have a campaign finance system where dark money drives the political agenda. We have a Supreme Court that with Citizens United allowed anonymous wealthy donors to dominate our elections. And just recently, they resurrected Jim Crow in <em>Louisiana vs. Callais<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris\u2019s visit to Louisiana comes as she\u2019s increasingly spent time in the South following the <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/california-playbook\/2026\/08\/07\/kamalas-southern-resistance-01028532\">Louisiana vs. Callais<\/a><\/em>  Supreme Court decision that ruled the state\u2019s creation of a second majority-minority district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. She referenced having recently met with middle-class workers from Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia in the speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4671719\/kamala-haris-abolish-electoral-college-expand-supreme-court\/\"><strong>KAMALA HARRIS SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR ABOLISHING ELECTORAL COLLEGE AND EXPANDING SUPREME COURT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harris has made intermittent public remarks since her exit from the White House in January 2025.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She published a book titled <em>107 Days<\/em> last September and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/daily-memo\/4635638\/kamala-and-the-communists\/\">made headlines<\/a> earlier in the summer for speaking with New York City Mayor <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/zohran-mamdani\/\">Zohran Mamdani<\/a> and, by extension, associating herself with the party\u2019s ascendant socialist wing. She called for taking a \u201chard look at the Electoral College\u2026 our corrupted Supreme Court, and statehood for [Washington] D.C. and Puerto Rico,\u201d policy objectives she has referenced often in recent weeks and months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris urges Democrats to fight with conviction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3238,"featured_media":2642249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kamala-Harris--e1782157724424.webp?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3685,32438,50402,5894,83873],"class_list":["post-2642248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-democrats","tag-kamala-harris","tag-leadership-2","tag-politics","tag-ruthlessness"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Kamala-Harris--e1782157724424.webp?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2642248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2642251,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642248\/revisions\/2642251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2642249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}