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Democratic strategists say 2028 candidate 'has to be a White guy': report
Fox News ^ | March 30, 2026 | Lindsay Kornick

Posted on 03/30/2026 7:46:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Democratic strategists are reportedly pushing for the 2028 presidential candidate to be a "straight, White, Christian man" after recent losses, an Axios report alleged.

"Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, White, Christian man," Axios reported on Sunday.

"Their fear, divulged with dismay in group chats, at cocktail parties and increasingly in public, is that parts of the electorate are too biased to support a woman or other diverse candidate for president," the report continued.

The report noted that Democratic strategists have become apprehensive after both former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Vice President Kamala Harris lost to President Donald Trump in their respective campaigns, though most of these comments have happened "behind closed doors."

"So not discounting the hundreds of other times men have lost…but is it the right thing to nominate a woman?" a national Democratic strategist told Axios.

Axios acknowledged that this concern would discount several high-profile candidates for 2028, including Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego, California Rep. Ro Khanna and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

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1 posted on 03/30/2026 7:46:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Go with the poofter Booty whatever.


2 posted on 03/30/2026 7:55:56 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: MinorityRepublican

Our country may yet still be doomed, but if we make it, the impenetrable stupidity of our enemies will be a prime reason

For those who want a laugh, Matt Walsh’s treatment of this story today is a hoot


3 posted on 03/30/2026 7:56:48 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
I mean, they lost with Hillary and Kamala while Biden won. It would probably behoove them to nominate a straight white man to shake the 'woke' stench for an election. They'll probably nominate Newsom, who obviously has a ton of baggage but looks very presidential.
4 posted on 03/30/2026 7:58:30 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: crusty old prospector

They said they want a “straight, White, Christian man” (roughly as common as a unicorn in the Dem party).


5 posted on 03/30/2026 7:59:11 PM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Sounds like they are lining up for Andy Beshear: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4367413/posts


6 posted on 03/30/2026 7:59:30 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: MinorityRepublican

They painted themselves in a corner 20 years ago. No white guys need apply. The party is largely run by lunatics and radicals, revolutionaries and a loose coalition of identity groups who mostly hate each other’s guts. They will cooperate insofar as to loot the public treasury.

They barely deign to even hold primaries, which would have obviated the unpleasant specter of the execrable Biden and ditzy doodle Harris, but then .. who do they have that’s “acceptable”? Hint: certainly not straight white males. That’s the problem. It isn’t simply the “electorate” that won’t elect their freak show candidates - it’s Democrats.

Oops!


7 posted on 03/30/2026 8:01:15 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: MinorityRepublican

Does that leave out Horizontal?


8 posted on 03/30/2026 8:01:57 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Trump20162020

Biden didn’t win.


9 posted on 03/30/2026 8:02:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Trump20162020

Biden didn’t win, that’s just it.


10 posted on 03/30/2026 8:02:22 PM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fuzzy thinking. Clinton and Harris didn’t lose because the electorate was ‘too biased to elect a woman.’ Clinton and Harris both lost because they were unskilled and unlikeable people of mediocre intellect. And they each btw had a white male running mate who turned out to be distasteful geeks. So let them find a white straight christian male. If he runs on the same stupid shyte, he will lose again.


11 posted on 03/30/2026 8:03:07 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: Trump20162020

Newsome looks like a sleazy lawyer, car dealer, or TV preacher. That makes him perfect for the role of Democratic nominee.


12 posted on 03/30/2026 8:04:40 PM PDT by Rockingham
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To: MinorityRepublican

Back to Square One.


13 posted on 03/30/2026 8:05:31 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’ll be interesting to see what RATs consider “Christian”.


14 posted on 03/30/2026 8:07:23 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Marco should do well on our side. Being of Cuban descent he will have a certain armor. Hopefully he will stay strong on immigration.


15 posted on 03/30/2026 8:07:37 PM PDT by toddausauras (47 47 47 )
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To: Freedom4US; Olog-hai

2020 was six years ago and Trump is back in the White House. It’s time to let it go lest you become Al Gore 2000 dead-enders.


16 posted on 03/30/2026 8:08:45 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yeah a straight white christian male is NOT going to work in the commie party..the blue haired freaks wont vote for him


17 posted on 03/30/2026 8:11:49 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Magic Fingers

Booty says he is a christian. He is almost there.


18 posted on 03/30/2026 8:16:50 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Trump20162020
They'll probably nominate Newsom, who obviously has a ton of baggage but looks very presidential.

Plus the chicks find him attractive.

Kennedy won about 49.7% of the popular vote and Nixon about 49.6%, while among men roughly 45% voted for JFK and 55% for Nixon, and among women about 51% voted for JFK and 49% for Nixon.

Relevant.

19 posted on 03/30/2026 8:17:16 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Sarah Barracuda
the blue haired freaks wont vote for him

True. But they don't get to vote....in the primaries anyway.

20 posted on 03/30/2026 8:18:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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