Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor who co-chaired Kamala Harris' 2024 presidential campaign, says he is thinking about running for president himself. Asked whether he would support another Harris run, he declined to say yes. I enjoyed serving with her.
I thought she ran a good campaign under very difficult circumstances," Landrieu told Carlo Versano in an interview on Newsweek's The 1600 podcast. He stopped short of an endorsement though. "If she wants to run, everybody should run.
I don't think we ought to be in the business of telling people what to do or what not to do," he said. "I think the country is looking for something different and something new." He closed his answer with advice for any 2028 hopeful. "If you feel like you got in your heart and your soul you feel you have something to give to the country, get out there and let the voters tell you whether or not you get to stay on the island." Responding to a question about whether he was mulling a presidential bid, Landrieu confirmed it.
"I am thinking about it," he said. "I'll make a decision at the appropriate time." Landrieu, a Democrat who also served as Louisiana's lieutenant governor and as President Joe Biden's infrastructure coordinator, said he cares more about what ordinary people can do than about who holds the White House. "Democracy is not self-operating," he said.
"A president alone will not save us." He argued that neither the courts nor Congress can be counted on to check President Donald Trump. Republicans in Congress, in his view, are not restraining the president the way a Republican majority did with Richard Nixon. "The senators are not coming.
The congressmen are not coming. The only people who can save this country are the people." Landrieu joined the show to talk about The Long Play, a docuseries he hosts for Crooked Media that travels through Southern states ahead of the midterms. The series rests on the idea that the South is where American politics is headed.
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