NBC Touted Kamala's Talk of a 2028 Run on the BBC, But Left Out a LOT of Context

October 27th, 2025 6:45 AM

On Saturday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Jose Diaz-Balart introduced a Yamiche Alcindor report on how Kamala Harris told a BBC interviewer that she's "not done," meaning she's considering another run for president in 2028. It didn't include any Republicans adoring that thought. 

NBC showed her boldly trashing the companies that have donated to the forthcoming White House ballroom as capitulating and genuflecting to a "tyrant" -- without, in this instance, telling viewers that one of those alleged tyrant-pleasers is Comcast, the parent company of NBC.

You'd like the interviewer to ask if people who lose an election should always call the winner a "tyrant." But apparently, Kamala was referring to the FCC chatting about Jimmy Kimmel's lies about Charlie Kirk's killer, and how Trump has weaponized the Justice Department -- like Biden never did that! 

Alcindor also dragged in video of Steve Bannon claiming in an interview that Trump has "a plan" to run again for a third term in 2028.

Only later did we discover that the BBC's interviewer challenged Harris on her chances in 2028.

Laura Kuennssberg dared to suggest that the oddsmakers place her as unlikely to get a second chance as the Democrat nominee -- as less likely than movie star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson! Harris claimed she's never "listened to polls." She said, "If I listened to polls I would have not run for my first office, or my second office - and I certainly wouldn't be sitting here."

NBC's report was quite incomplete. Hanna Panreck at Fox News reported Kuennsberg also challenged Kamala on Biden's mental decline: 

"But the context here, I think, at this historical moment you talk about, is so important because there had been months of speculation around the world, here in the U.K. too. Even in April, long before President Biden pulled out, we asked Nancy Pelosi what was going wrong. This was a huge subject of discussion, and you write that President Biden didn’t raise his frailty with you, and you write that you didn’t really raise it with him, that’s extraordinary to read in your account," Kuenssberg told Harris.

Harris pushed back and said, "Let's be more precise: there is a very serious difference between capacity to be president of the United States and the capacity to run for president of the United States."

"It is on that latter piece that I talk about in the book, about my concern about his ability, with the level of endurance, energy that it requires, especially running against now the current president," she added. "But let's be clear, my question was never about his capacity to be president."

Kuenssberg questioned whether it was a strange message to send to the public.

"Isn't it a strange message to the public to say, you know, what you need to be tougher and more able to run a political campaign than actually to be the person behind the desk in the Oval Office, to be the person making decisions in the Situation Room. So did you just not think it was that bad or did you feel you just couldn’t raise it?" the BBC journalist asked.

The former vice president reiterated that she was concerned about what the campaign would demand of any candidate, "regardless of age."