The Kamala Harris Interview
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
As promised, this is the full length interview that Laura Kuenssberg did with the former US Vice-President Kamala Harris.
Harris makes her strongest suggestion to date that she will make another presidential bid in 2028 after losing to Donald Trump last year.
She also said she believed predictions she made about Donald Trump behaving as a fascist and running an authoritarian government had come true. Something the White House has called ‘lies’.
And she’s questioned on whether her old running mate and former president, Joe Biden, dropped out of the race too late for her to have a chance at winning last year’s election.
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| 0:36.2 | Hi everyone, it's Laura here. |
| 0:37.9 | On yesterday's newscast, me and Patty talked about a snippet of my interview with Kamala Harris, |
| 0:44.0 | the former vice president of the United States who took on Donald Trump and failed. |
| 0:49.5 | She suggested very heavily that she might have another crack at running for the White House, |
| 0:55.4 | as well as branding Donald Trump a fascist, a tyrant, |
| 0:59.1 | and making plain her contempt for his version of the United States. |
| 1:04.1 | But yesterday on newscast, we promised we'd play you the full interview for your delictation. |
| 1:09.6 | So, as vowed, here it is. |
| 1:17.8 | Madam Vice President, you tell this roller coaster story of the 107 days of your campaign. |
| 1:23.6 | And it's a rollicking read. I've read it three times. No kidding. Yeah, because it's almost like a |
| 1:28.8 | thriller, but it's clear you don't think losing the election was all your fault. So, Madam Vice |
| 1:34.3 | President, you say you'd underestimated the public's dislike of a frail 81-year-old running again. |
| 1:41.0 | Do you feel that President Biden and his team torpedoed your chances of a fair chance |
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