Kamala Harris told Al Sharpton in April that she's "thinking about" running for president again in 2028.
She's now in Detroit trying to prove she's still relevant enough to matter.
What Kamala Harris said at a Tuesday roundtable in front of healthcare advocates will come back to haunt her down the road.
The Argument Nobody Asked For
The problem with maternal mortality in America, Harris told the crowd, is that Donald Trump ended DEI.
"An attack on DEI, to recognize diversity, equity and inclusion, is an attack by definition on maternal care, including the need to protect black women in connection with their pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care," she said.
Read that again.
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She said attacking DEI is – by definition – an attack on maternal care itself.
That's not a policy argument.
That's a loyalty test – and most Michigan mothers don't think their OB-GYN's hiring checklist is what's standing between them and a healthy delivery.
She's Not There for the Moms
Harris was in Detroit to campaign for Abdul El-Sayed – a candidate who campaigned alongside Rashida Tlaib, got endorsed by Bernie Sanders, said he "struggles with the question of whether Israel should exist as a Jewish state."
He also refused to comment on the Ayatollah's death because Dearborn constituents were "sad."
Harris called El-Sayed a future "champion" on maternal health.
What she didn't mention: he has never held elected office.
What she also didn't mention: maternal mortality went up 27% nationally in the years Democrats controlled the White House – when Harris was Vice President, when Biden was signing every DEI executive order in the playbook.
DEI didn't fix it then.
And more DEI isn't going to fix it now.
What Harris Left Out
More than a third of American counties have no birthing hospital, no birth center, and no OB provider.
"One in 12 women in America currently lives in a maternal care desert with limited or no access to maternal care," she said.
That didn't happen because Trump eliminated a DEI office.
It happened because rural hospitals kept closing, because the physician pipeline kept shrinking, and because an insurance reimbursement system designed in Washington kept paying more to deliver babies by C-section than to keep mothers healthy through pregnancy.
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Harris blamed Trump's "Big Bad Bill" for cutting Medicaid by a trillion dollars.
Those aren't cuts – they're growth reductions – and what Dr. Oz's Medicaid overhaul actually did was end $2 billion flowing to illegal immigrants and add work requirements for able-bodied adults.
She also blamed “family values.”
"As one of the most — some would say the most financially strong economies in the world — we have the distinction of also having one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world," she said. "So, it raises the issue of disparities and also hypocrisy when there are leaders who otherwise walk around every day talking about their family values."
Medicaid is the largest funder of maternity care in America, as Harris correctly noted.
Biden left it drowning in fraud and an unsustainable caseload.
Trump is the one fixing it.
What This Tour Is Really About
This is Harris's third presidential campaign – and this Michigan stop is the opening act.
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It's a warm-up lap – a chance to rebuild credibility with Black voters she lost in 2024, in a state Trump flipped, alongside a candidate so radical his own party nearly didn't nominate him.
El-Sayed faces Republican Mike Rogers – a former congressman with Trump's endorsement – in a race that could determine Senate control.
And Harris's closing argument to Michigan mothers is that the man who cleaned out DEI bureaucrats also wants their babies to die.
Michigan didn't buy what Harris was selling in 2024.
She's betting they've forgotten why.
Sources:
- Bonny Chu, "Kamala Harris says 'attack on DEI is an attack on maternal care' in appearance with El-Sayed," Fox News, September 22, 2026.
- "Kamala Harris hints at running for president in 2028," Fox News, April 10, 2026.
- "El-Sayed Wins Michigan Senate Primary," Daily Signal, August 5, 2026.
- "NIH IMPROVE Act Issue Brief," March of Dimes, March 18, 2026.
- "Dr. Oz Unveils Medicaid Overhaul, Clamps Down on $2B for Illegal Immigrants and Mandates Work for Able-Bodied," Fox News, 2026.
