Kamala Harris is now being guarded by Los Angeles Police Department officers after President Trump withdrew her Secret Service protection, a Wednesday report said.
As many as 14 members of LAPD’s elite Metro Division have been reassigned from active cases and crime suppression duties to provide security for the former vice president, according to a FOX 11 report.
FOX 11 cameras captured an unmarked LAPD SUV with at least two plainclothes officers outside Harris’ Brentwood home, where she has lived with her husband, Doug Emhoff, since leaving Washington after the 2024 election.
Trump signed an order last week ending Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection as of Sept. 1.
Former vice presidents typically receive six months of coverage after leaving office, meaning Harris’ detail would have expired July 21. But shortly before leaving office, President Joe Biden extended her protection for a full year for some reason.
Despite the federal statute limiting former vice presidents to six months’ worth of Secret Service protection, local Democratic leaders complained that Trump was pulling Harris’ detail out of political “revenge.”
“This is another act of revenge following a long list of political retaliation in the form of firings, the revoking of security clearances and more,” Democratic LA Mayor Karen Bass told Fox 11 in a statement.
“This puts the former vice president in danger and I look forward to working with the governor to make sure Vice President Harris is safe in Los Angeles,” she added.
Harris was also offered security from the California Highway Patrol after Trump revoked her Secret Service detail, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Such protection would require approval from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose spokesperson declined to confirm the arrangement. However, the rep did say: “The safety of our public officials should never be subject to erratic, vindictive political impulses.”
Earlier this year, Trump also ended taxpayer-funded security for several high-profile figures, including Hunter and Ashley Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, former national security adviser John Bolton, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, among others.
Meanwhile, Harris is said to be considering her next political move after losing badly to Trump last November. Previous reports have claimed she is either considering running for the Democratic presidential nomination again in 2028 or for California governor next year, though she has already ruled out the latter.
Regarding the former option, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said last month that there weren’t many in the party pining for her to make another White House run.
Since the 2024 election, Democrats have had a strained relationship with both Biden and Harris, who have remained in the public eye despite many in the party wishing they would quietly step aside.
Harris recently announced she would not run for California governor — a decision that has fueled speculation she is keeping her options open for another presidential run in 2028. But on his Politics War Room podcast, Carville dismissed any fears that Democrats would rally behind her again.
“Don’t be terrified,” Carville told one concerned listener. “She wisely chose not to run for governor of California.”
Carville said flatly that Harris will not be the Democratic Party nominee in 2028.
“Anybody that had anything to do with 2024, the party wants to move on from that,” he said. “This isn’t anybody’s fault.”
“This goes to Walz, too. I wouldn’t run again,” Carville said. “If I were your friend, if I were your chief advisor, I’m doing this not from a personal standpoint, but because this is not going to be the environment where Democrats look to anybody connected to the 2024 campaign.”
Carville’s co-host, Al Hunt, aimed his own parting shot at Biden: “Joe Biden, would you please go take the restful retirement you so richly deserve?”
Several top Democrats, such as Harris, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Newsom, are expected to run for president in 2028.