Posted on 03/15/2025 11:02:22 AM PDT by Libloather
Political strategists are not yet sold that Democrats rumored to be prospective 2028 presidential candidates have all that it takes to unite the party and retake the White House.
Failed 2024 candidates Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and a handful of Democrat governors — Gavin Newsom of California, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Andy Beshear of Kentucky and Wes Moore of Maryland — are all thought to be potentially sizing up runs for the White House in 2028 as Democrats try to fight their way out of the political wilderness. Even though there is still plenty of road to go before the campaign kicks off, the prospective candidates could find it quite difficult to unite the party and appeal to enough of America to win back the presidency, pundits told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“We are in what has been referred to as the ‘invisible primary’ phase of the election cycle, because it is so early and the public isn’t paying attention to these early machinations,” Len Foxwell, a Maryland-based Democratic strategist, told the DCNF. “The only ones who are participating in the process at this point are the prospective candidates themselves and a relatively small and insular ecosystem of donors and party activists and elected officials who do this sort of thing, either as a passion or as a profession. It’s a very small and limited process right now, but it’s definitely happening.”
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I’m saying Beshear. Handsome. Well spoken. He can pull off the moderate schtick more effectively than Newsom, because he doesn’t have the disastrous record of governance Newsom does
Shapiro is the only one to be worried about and CA would never approve of him.
there goes the marxist/islamist vote
Gore/Lieberman, Kerry/Edwards, Hillary/Kaine...all entrenched Deep Staters. Save for Obunga. who, like Hillary and Kamala, was sort of installed in the Senate, to make a Presidential bid...all losers.
I went to military school with Wes Moore. Very brilliant and very charismatic and persuasive. Loved and lauded by Oprah.
He can easily be an Obama 2.0.
No need for them to bother my bet is on J.D.Vance
Yes, Beshear should be right in there with his faux centrism. That is, if the Dem base can tolerate a ‘centrist’ white guy. Harris might have one if she’d picked him (ugh).
California will back ANY Dem in ‘28.
Moore poses as a moderate … but, as you know, there really are NO moderate Dem politicos.
Agreed. We live in MD and he wants to be the Gavin Newsom of the east coast, but he’s charismatic, served in the military and he’s black so he can play the minority race card.
A flock of beta-males if I ever saw one.
Shapiro, I would bet will keep his powder dry is the winds are blowing well for republicans. He might run a trial balloon campaign where the entire purpose is just to network with donors and get his name out there a bit before a 2032 run.
IF gop is in the crapper in late 2027 then he might run for a serious run, but I don’t see him running if the dynamics heavily anti Democrats beyond the type of meet the donors set the groundwork for serious run next time.
Kamala and Walz are absolute non starters. Emanuel and Buttogeig? Only if th fundamentals as such that any Democrat will win, will these two have any prayer. Newsome is trying to moderate and rehab his image already. Whether he can con enough of the public before 2028 remains to be seen.
We’ve written them off before and they came back. Let’s not get cocky. These candidates are all jokes but jokes can and have won before.
Andy Beshear is rather Clintonian. He’s an ultra-leftist but uses his media savvy and stage presence to get elected and have high popularity in a very conservative state.
I think you’re right. Too many Jew haters in her party to have picked Shapiro. It’s all speculation but I subscribe to the opinion that she chose that goofball Walz because she couldn’t tolerate having anyone who might upstage her
If the Rats do put up a moderate, maybe AOC could be persuaded to make a run as an “independant”.
Harris was all set to nominate Shapiro until the core of the Dems (Leftoid Islamophiles) grumbled. In a last minute panic she (her DS handlers) plucked weirdo Walz from obscurity. Brashear might have carried them over the line (ugh).
I’m waiting to see if the Dims nominate any more candidates who are brain-damaged, or at least have below-average intelligence. My daughter is both very smart and very liberal; the next time I meet her in person, I’m going to ask why she keeps supporting candidates that are clearly dumber than she is.
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