Leadership Quote by Katherine Harris

The line reads like a grin stretched too wide: all warmth on the surface, all hardball underneath. Harris is performing gratitude ("very supportive things") while quietly reminding everyone that support is currency, and she’s keeping score. The mention of "D.C". isn’t incidental; it’s a signaling device. Washington approval confers legitimacy, and in a party ecosystem it also implies donors, consultants, and institutional blessing lining up behind her before ordinary voters even have a say.

Then comes the slip that matters: "We can't wait when the race has begun". It’s either a clumsy construction or, more tellingly, an accidental reveal. The campaign is treated less like a civic exercise than a starting gun, a contest whose real meaning begins only when the competitive machinery starts grinding. That’s the subtext: politics as sport, with the pregame defined by endorsements and insider chatter, and the "race" defined by strategy, framing, and winning.

Context sharpens the stakes. Harris is best known as Florida’s secretary of state during the 2000 election recount, a role that turned procedural language into a national obsession and made her, fairly or not, a symbol of partisan administration. In that shadow, even an anodyne statement about support carries a second message: I have friends in high places, I’m battle-tested, and I’m ready to do this again. The blandness is the point; it’s a veneer of civility over an appetite for the fight.