2028 Democratic presidential primary calendar
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Kamala Harris faces Democratic doubts over 2028
Democratic strategist Doug Herman said Harris 'totally blew it' and hasn't gotten into the mix.
Maria Cardona defended Harris by pointing to policy proposals including an expanded Supreme Court, lowering the voting age to 16, and making D.C. and Puerto Rico states.
Harris's 2024 presidential campaign lasted three months and ended in defeat, with Trump sweeping all key battleground states.
Billionary Trump critic and potential Democratic presidential contender
Pritzker's campaign said he donated his blackjack winnings to charity.
Pritzker's signature plan to overhaul Illinois's tax system from a flat rate to a graduated levy was rejected by voters in 2020.
Pritzker launched a $20 million political action committee to support Democratic party campaigns nationwide.
AI debate shaping the 2028 presidential election
Andy Beshear signed an executive order in August requiring datacenter developers to ensure they won’t have a detrimental impact on the environment and taxpayers before building.
Pete Buttigieg published a Substack last year calling on US leaders to take AI dangers more seriously.
Mark Kelly published a roadmap last year suggesting the government create an “AI Horizon Fund” backed by AI companies.
Kamala Harris belatedly courting progressives
Harris flew to Michigan to join Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a roundtable focused on Black maternal health.
Kamala Harris has not made an official announcement about running for president in 2028.
Harris reached out to pro-Palestinian activists and Arab American leaders including James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute.
Rahm Emanuel touts differences as he mulls 2028 presidential bid
Emanuel served as America's top diplomat in Japan under the Biden administration.
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had nearly 13% support in the polls.
Emanuel served as a top advisor for Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
“We don't have time anymore. We're at a tipping point in the country. I think we've wasted a lot of time in the last 12 years trying to restore, as I said, a past that's not coming back. We better think about a future that includes everybody. We don't have a person to waste or a community to overlook and make the investments that make this country stronger.”
Carville says GOP better than Democrats at key skill for 2028 nominee
Mary Marslender is a former senior advisor to Senator Ron Johnson and a former Trump appointee who is now a Republican consultant.
Julian Epstein is an attorney, Democratic consultant, and former Democratic chief counsel for the House Judiciary Committee.
Carville said Democrats lack both a consistent negative story about the Republican Party and a consistent positive story about themselves.
AOC discusses race and gender in weighing possible 2028 White House bid
Judy Pino argued that Latino voters are more focused on AOC's policies rather than her gender or ethnicity.
Reid Hoffman said former Vice President Kamala Harris would have a very challenging path to the 2028 nomination.
AOC topped a July poll from the University of New Hampshire Granite State.
Democratic megadonor reality check on Harris for 2028
Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for Harris, Ocasio-Cortez and Hoffman but did not receive a response in time for publication.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he would not seek the presidency if Harris entered the 2028 race.
Reid Hoffman said any potential support for Ocasio-Cortez would depend in part on whom she was running against.
Opinion: Senator Ossoff borrows from Obama as 2028 chatter builds
Jon Ossoff is running for re-election in Georgia.
Ossoff's election alongside Raphael Warnock secured the Senate majority for Democrats.
Ossoff grilled CIA director John Ratcliffe after Jeffrey Goldberg published a report that senior officials had shared sensitive information about future military strikes on Signal with him.
Gavin Newsom says he won't run for president in 2028 if Kamala Harris runs
Newsom is term-limited as California governor.
Kamala Harris said publicly in July that she has yet to decide about whether to run for president.
Newsom said he considered running for president in 2024 but was not ready.
Gavin Newsom says he won't run against Kamala Harris
Newsom said his wife and school-aged children would have to agree to a White House run.
Gavin Newsom said he would not run for president if Kamala Harris runs.
Newsom said running against Harris would amount to mutual assured destruction with no upside.
2028 Democratic hopeful's ally exposed for CCP ties
Yin called himself an Official Commerce Rep in the US for the Province of Fujian, China on his LinkedIn profile.
A 2013 photo appears to show Christine Fang alongside Chinese Consul General Gao Zhansheng and APAPA leaders including Yin.
Yin's LinkedIn profile still includes the senior advisor title with Khanna's office.
James Carville predicts 2028 Democratic reckoning
James Carville said the Democratic Party faces an ideological reckoning in 2028.
James Carville said Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has more talent than most of the people on the left put together.
James Carville said the DSA will run somebody for president in 2028 and will not get out of the first two primaries.
“Let me assure you that Democratic voters are not going to nominate the DSA or anybody close to the DSA. The Democrats have never nominated the most liberal candidate, and they're not [going to] do it in 2028,”
Iowa Democrat says Kamala Harris should not run for president again
Rob Sand is the state auditor of Iowa.
Rob Sand was a registered independent.
Mary Peltola is a Democrat running for a US Senate seat in Alaska.
“I don’t tend to like the party politics stuff. I think that we have a fundamentally broken two-choice political system. I don’t think that either the Democratic or the Republican parties are solving enough problems or deserve special legal privileges in order to force us to pick between the lesser of two evils. My inclination is that I want it to be shaken up.”
Newsom ally taunts Buttigieg over South Carolina visit
Gardon told Fox News Digital that the post was made from his personal account and in his personal capacity.
Izzy Gardon mocked Pete Buttigieg's recent visit to South Carolina.
Aida Ross did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Poll: Most Democrats in early 2028 primary states oppose aid to Israel
Chuck Schumer is the current Senate Minority Leader.
The poll surveyed voters in South Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Michigan, and Virginia.
Abdul El-Sayed's pro-Israel opponent spent more than $60 million in campaign spending.
“Unfortunately, the current leadership as it stands in the Democratic Party has been people who have a very status quo view about the US-Israel relationship. And so, what ultimately needs to happen is the party just needs a new leader who actually reflects its voters.”
Pete Buttigieg visits South Carolina amid White House run consideration
Buttigieg served as transportation secretary under President Joe Biden.
Buttigieg finished fourth in the South Carolina Democratic primary during his 2020 presidential campaign.
Jaime Harrison said that if a candidate cannot win Black voters, they cannot be the Democratic nominee.
Democratic National Committee Narrows 2028 Convention Shortlist to Three Cities
“inspiring celebration of our party’s future nominee.”
South Carolina to hold first 2028 Democratic primary
National Democratic strategist Melissa DeRosa called the decision to put South Carolina first one of the smartest strategic moves the DNC has made in a long time.
The DNC's autopsy of the 2024 election loss, released this year, cited Harris' inability to energize voters as one reason for the defeat and said the party lost 6.8 million voters who supported Biden in 2020.
Since 1992, every Democrat who won the White House was the top vote-getter in the South Carolina primary, including Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
“The candidate that wants to help South Carolina Democrats break the Republican supermajority of the State House. The candidate that wants to help Dr. Anna Andrews become the next junior senator from South Carolina. The candidate that wants to help elect the next Democratic governor in South Carolina,”
AOC says she has not ruled out 2028 run for president or Senate
Ocasio-Cortez was first elected to Congress in 2018, winning her party's nomination for New York's 14th Congressional District in an upset over Rep. David Crowley.
Bernie Sanders ran for president twice as a progressive, anti-establishment alternative to traditional Democrats.
Sanders has all but ruled out another presidential run in 2028.
DNC committee sets South Carolina to vote first in 2028 Democratic primaries
Then-President Joe Biden pushed the DNC to reshuffle the primary calendar for his re-election year, moving South Carolina to the front of the line after it provided the key result for his 2020 primary campaign.
Buckley said today's vote shows that many party insiders have learned nothing from 2024.
Iowa is pushed out of the early voting window altogether under the new calendar.