Kamala Harris is once again trying to reinvent herself, and this time she is dialing up the far left.

The former vice president has been reaching out to anti-Israel progressives such as New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and other socialist activists as she works to secure her position at the front of the 2028 Democratic primary race.

According to Axios, Harris initiated a call to Mamdani right after hardline left wing candidates crushed establishment Democrats in the recent New York primaries.

Sources say the conversation revolved around the future of the Democratic Party and Harris’s renewed effort to appeal to the activist base that abandoned Joe Biden in 2024.

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Mamdani, who is as far from a moderate as they come, said Harris congratulated him on his endorsements and success in promoting socialist victories.

“The vice president reached out to have a conversation, and we’ve had a brief conversation,” Mamdani told SiriusXM’s “The Clay Cane Show.”

“We’ve been in touch over the last few months, and I really do appreciate her outreach.”

That “outreach” appears to be part of a broader effort by Harris to charm the radical wing that nearly torpedoed the Democratic ticket two years ago.

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Another activist, Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of the Uncommitted Movement that protested Biden’s support for Israel, said Harris has been aggressively contacting him as well.

Alawieh bragged on X that he had “multiple phone calls” with Harris and met her in Detroit, claiming he told her about relatives supposedly killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes.

He also lectured her that “American tax dollars must never be used to target civilians and destroy entire communities.”

He later encouraged her to side with “peace-loving Americans against endless wars,” language that has become code for demanding Washington abandon Israel.

It is notable that Alawieh’s Michigan district includes Dearborn, where the mayor refused to endorse Harris in 2024 and Rep. Rashida Tlaib also withheld her support.

Michigan Democrats have long been divided over Israel, and Harris appears eager to shift further left to secure any possible votes she can find.

Harris also reportedly reached out to Democratic National Committee member James Zogby, another long standing Palestinian activist.

Clearly, this is not an accident or one off call.

It is a deliberate pattern intended to show progressives she is one of them, or at least can pretend to be one of them when an election is near.

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Just days after Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 race, Harris was already trying to reset her image.

She publicly declared Israel had killed “far too many” civilians in its war against Hamas and said she “would not be silent,” a pointed rebuke coming right after Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

That statement came with applause from the campus left but alarm from pro Israel Democrats who saw it as pandering to the mob.

To cover her bases, Harris also sought meetings with Uncommitted Movement figures to discuss possibly cutting off arms sales to Israel if she won the presidency.

Yet in the next breath she turned around and told Jewish voters she would “stand up for Israel’s right to defend itself.”

It is classic Harris politics, trying to play every side, saying whatever might win her the next primary or headline.

Voter data show her strategy still has serious holes.

Harris largely maintained Biden’s share of the Jewish vote from 2020 to 2024, but President Donald Trump improved dramatically among Muslim Americans, while Harris plummeted.

The Council on American Islamic Relations found that Harris captured barely 20 percent of Muslim voters in 2024, a clear signal that her political act is not convincing many.

Meanwhile, the leftward slide of the Democratic Party continues.

In the New York primary last week, anti Israel candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America toppled several incumbents.

DSA candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier ousted five term Rep. Adriano Espaillat in a Manhattan and Bronx district.

And in another stunning upset, Rep. Dan Goldman lost his seat to Brad Lander, a former DSA member who accused Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza.

Though unannounced, Harris currently sits atop RealClearPolitics polling averages for the 2028 primary with 27 percent support.

California Governor Gavin Newsom follows at 17 percent, with Pete Buttigieg and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez trailing behind.

When asked by Al Sharpton in April about her plans, Harris giggled, “I might. I’m thinking about it. I’ll keep you posted.”

That coy response is probably the most honest thing she has said in months. She is thinking about it, and her latest maneuver proves it.

She is trying to lock down the activist base early, even if that means sitting down with the same anti Israel crusaders who spent years torching moderates in her own party.

Whether her careful courtship of the far left will help her is another question entirely.

For many Americans, these conversations show exactly who Harris is choosing to align with, and it says plenty about what kind of administration she would run if she ever got the chance.

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