Democrats and Republicans are already looking to 2028 — here’s who’s in the running
... “I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you do something,” Trump reportedly told his GOP House colleagues as they met ahead of congressional leadership elections shortly after his election win. “Unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we have to just figure it out.’”...
JD Vance
Kamala Harris - Not top of my list, but she is a competent candidate and might do better with an entire season to run.
Donald Trump Jr
TRE45QN proves that style and energy matter more than left-right differences.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
The New York congresswoman has had an impressive political career, winning a seat in the House when she was just 29.
Her name has been floated as a potential contender due to her ability to “cut through the BS and tell it like it is,” a Democratic strategist told The Hill.
“She’s somebody who can cut through the noise and doesn’t talk like Washington,” the strategist added.
A former member of Trump’s administration has even warned fellow Republicans not to “underestimate” her.
Monica Crowley, a former public affairs official in the Treasury Department during the first Trump administration, said AOC had “real grassroots support” through her early adoption of social media.
With eight million followers on Instagram, one million on TikTok and almost 13 million on X, she has a large national following for a backbencher.
The 35-year-old was also the fourth biggest fundraiser among Democratic House candidates in 2023-2024, Politico noted on its profile of the congresswoman, citing data compiled by OpenSecrets.
But there are some in the party who are concerned about AOC and the progressive ‘squad.’
“She and the ‘squad’ started pushing too hard, too fast,” another strategist told The Hill. “D.C. doesn’t work that way. And our party doesn’t work that way. We need to get back to the basics.”
Ocasio-Cortez, however, pushed back against the criticism that Democrats need to move away from “woke politics.”
“A lot of folks w/ poor campaign fundamentals are now blaming ‘wokism’ but haven’t held a town hall or knocked a door all cycle,” she said on BlueSky.
GoAOCGo!
Lots of Dems and RepuQs missing from this list. We'll see.