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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) dismissed a question of whether or not she’ll run for president in 2028 on Friday night, stating that her “ambition is way bigger.” “My ambition is to change this country,” Ocasio-Cortez told Democratic strategist David Axelrod during a conversation hosted by the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics. “Presidents come and go, Senate, House seats, elected officials, come and go, but single-payer healthcare is forever. A living wage is forever. Workers’ rights are forever. Women’s rights — all of that.” The representative is among a group of people whom voters see as potential Democratic candidates for...

While she indicated to donors that she had no issue with releasing it, Harris has not discussed the postmortem with DNC Chairman Ken Martin and did not know about his decision to keep it under wraps until it happened, this person said. Like most prospective candidates, Harris is staying involved in political affairs. That includes touring the country, giving speeches to state parties, developing the framework for a policy platform and sounding out fellow Democrats about her next chapter. What’s unique about Harris is that while she tries to orient toward the future, many in her party are actively fighting...

Two of the biggest names in the Republican Party are making stops the next few days in Iowa, a key 2026 midterm battleground state whose caucuses, for a half century, have kicked off the GOP's presidential nominating calendar. Vice President JD Vance and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will have the midterms on their minds during their visits, which come with just over six months to go until this year's elections, when Republicans will be defending their slim Senate and razor-thin House majorities. But the moment the midterms are over, the next presidential race officially gets underway. So the trips...

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) on Wednesday said he is not interested in launching a presidential campaign for 2028. “I have zero interest in running for president in 2028. I love serving the state of Georgia. I’ve got two young daughters,” Ossoff said during a Wednesday appearance on MS NOW’s “The Briefing.” The Georgia lawmaker warned against playing “fantasy football” with the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination, arguing it “risks distracting us from the urgent task at hand.” … In addition to Ossoff, strategists have floated Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker as potential...

Former VP Kamala Harris on Friday teased her plans for the 2028 presidential election in an on-stage interview with the Rev. Al Sharpton in New York City, where she blasted President Trump as a “liar.” “I might. I’m thinking about it,” the Democrat replied when Sharpton asked her if she was going to run for president again. The room burst into applause at her response. The crowd favored Harris, the nation’s first black vice president. At one point, a person yelled, “run again.”

In an interview with "We The Fifth" hosts Matt Welch and Michael Moynihan, Democratic insider and 2028 hopeful Rahm Emanuel said Democrats "lost the plot" because the party became unanchored from middle-class values. "Why would you undercut the premise of Title IX with the ability of trans men playing in women's sports?" Emanuel asked. "To me, it's insane. You're undermining one of the great accomplishments we as a country, but also spearheaded by the Democratic Party, Title IX. And we're undercutting it." RAHM EMANUEL: We lost the plot. We as Democrats nationally, from Latinx, to defunding the police, to police...

Homeless individuals were allegedly bribed with cash, cigarettes, and marijuana in exchange for signing voter registration forms and ballot petitions — often using fake addresses Independent investigative journalist James O’Keefe and his team at O’Keefe Media Group (OMG) have released explosive undercover footage documenting what appears to be widespread voter registration and petition fraud on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, where homeless individuals were allegedly bribed with cash, cigarettes, and marijuana in exchange for signing voter registration forms and ballot petitions — often using fake addresses. The investigation, titled “CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS FRAUD CASH FOR BALLOTS PART I,” captured at least 28...

The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, in an appearance in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state of New Hampshire, reiterated his use of the term "apartheid" to describe Israel and did not correct his chosen interviewer, who falsely claimed "every expert" has described Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide." Newsom, who has opposed a proposed one-time confiscation of billionaire wealth in California, also spoke positively about a plan by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) for an annual 5 percent wealth tax on billionaires. The plan's supporters claim it would be a $4.4 trillion tax increase...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Gov. Andy Beshear announced the release of his book, “Go and Do Likewise” on Wednesday, Feb. 18. The book is set to go on sale September 22, with pre-orders currently available. In his book, Beshear will share how his faith has informed his life and what it means to him, according to the book’s preorder website. The website described “Go and Do Likewise” as “a compelling and insightful book that reclaims faith as a force for good in public life and rebukes those who use it to harm and discriminate.”

Progressives have long branded President Trump as a stooge for Russia. Yet the more important story may be who President Xi Jinping of China wants in office. Unlike Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Xi has the financial muscle, ties to business elites, and technical skill to promote his agenda. And California’s Gavin Newsom is likely to be his favorite in 2028. Indeed, just after Biden’s poorly-received performance in his June 2024 presidential debate with Trump, the Asia Times, South China Morning Post, Bloomberg, and Business Insider all reported that Beijing liked Newsom as the ideal replacement for the doddering president. The...

Three newly released polls indicate that Democrats are seriously considering running Kamala Harris for the presidency again in 2028, with her miles ahead of her opponents in the polls, with the racial breakdown showing that everyone is moving behind the former Democrat nominee. New - 2028 primary polls🔵 Harris 38%🔵 Newsom 13%🔵 Buttigieg 5%🔵 Shapiro 4%🔴 Vance 43%🔴 Trump Jr 18%🔴 DeSantis 5%🔴 Rubio 5%Tipp #A - RV - 1/29— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) February 16, 2026📊 2028 National Democratic Primary🟦 Harris 39%🟦 Newsom 21%🟦 AOC 10%🟦 Buttigieg 7%🟦 Shapiro 7%🟦 Kelly 6%🟦 Whitmer 4%🟦 Pritzker 3%🟦 Beshear 1%🟦 Ossoff 1%——Hypothetical...

Maryland governor Wes Moore (D.) declared he won't waste "a second" of his time finding his missing graduate thesis, which he now claims made him an expert on Hamas. Oxford University, meanwhile, refuses to confirm whether Moore was ever a doctoral candidate in 2006, a representation he made in the résumé he submitted that year to obtain a prestigious White House fellowship that jump-started his political career. "I am not going to spend a second of my time trying to dig up a paper that I wrote 20 some odd years ago because a blog, because a right-wing blog post...

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz ended his campaign for re-election, a stunning reversal and likely the end of the political career of a man who many pundits projected would be the Democratic nominee for president as early as 2028. But if a once-popular governor can be toppled by widespread welfare fraud, where does that leave other Democratic presidential hopefuls? The revelations of staggering levels of fraud in Minnesota — and Walz’s preemptive exit from the big stage — should send a chill down the spines of Gavin Newsom, Josh Shapiro, and JB Pritzker, who are likely sitting on powder kegs of...

The Republican establishment is on the verge of extinction. Donald Trump’s first term wasn’t enough to kill it off: Trump came into office in 2017 with establishment figures such as Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan leading the party in Congress, and Trump’s own vice president, Mike Pence, had been chosen for that role as a reassurance to the old guard... This time, though, things are very different. Though congressional Republicans have yet to become thoroughly MAGA, there’s no longer a sense that GOP leaders in the House or Senate represent a distinct political brand of their own, as McConnell and...

NEWS: Today, Trump signed an executive order committing the United States to return to the Moon by 2028, build a lunar outpost by 2030 and prepare for the journey to Mars. Everything in the Executive Order: • Return Americans to the Moon by 2028 • Begin building a permanent lunar outpost by 2030 • Make U.S. space superiority a core national priority • Expand commercial launch, lower costs, increase cadence • Develop next-gen space-based missile defense by 2028 • Detect and counter threats in LEO and cislunar space • Rapidly modernize national security space architecture • Deepen allied cooperation in...

Reading political tea leaves three years before an election is a bit like predicting the weather for your 2028 summer vacation—entertaining, perhaps, but utterly useless for packing your bags. Yet here we are, with breathless headlines announcing that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has “taken the lead” over Vice President JD Vance in a hypothetical matchup. The progressive left is practically popping champagne.For those who haven’t followed their trajectories, the contrast between these two couldn’t be sharper. AOC burst onto the scene in 2018, unseating a longtime Democratic incumbent and quickly becoming the face of democratic socialism in America. The Green New Deal,...

If Democrats seem extreme now, wait until they adopt ranked-choice voting. Some activists inside the party want exactly that — a reform that would push presidential nominations even further left and force establishment figures to navigate an ideological gauntlet to win. Multiple reports indicate that Democratic Party activists and elected officials are pressuring the party to adopt ranked-choice voting for its 2028 presidential primaries. Axios notes that the push has grown serious enough that top party officials met in late October with advocates including Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), pollster Celinda Lake, and representatives from FairVote Action. Such an effort fits...

“He’s a fighter, that’s what we need!” a top-tier producer, and reliable Dem ATM over the decades, told Deadline of Newsom. “I just wish more Democrats, like Schumer and the leadership (in Congress), would emulate him, not take any sh*t from Trump,” the producer added of Newsom and his Trump 2.0 strategy of throwing punches online and off line at the authoritarian “loser” White House. With legislation like the January 1 effective ICE unmasking “No Secret Police Act” and his landslide Proposition 50 redistricting victory last month mentioned, admiration for Newsom’s fightin’ ethos is a sentiment echoed throughout town time...

Although the Friday Politico "Playbook" story about freshman Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin was ostensibly focused on her not very convincing engagement with Democrats "looking for clues about which path it should chart out of the electoral wilderness," it was more than obvious that it was in reality not very subtle hype for her as a presidential contender in 2028. And speaking of "clues" it shows that Politico reporter Adam Wren, who produced this Slotkin 2028 campaign promo laughably dressed up in Slotkin's existential political "search," seems to have little awareness of the sad state of the current Democrat party as...

“If he’s running, I’m running,” Flynn wrote on X over the weekend. “What say you Mike? @Mike_Pence.” A social media post went viral that claimed Pence may run for president in 2028. However, Pence has not made a statement denying or verifying the statement. Pence ran for president in 2024 but he suspended his campaign in October 2023. A social media post went viral that claimed Pence may run for president in 2028. However, Pence has not made a statement denying or verifying the statement. Pence ran for president in 2024 but he suspended his campaign in October 2023. Pence...