General Election 2028

One election is over...let's start talking about 2028!

Back to the future!

I assume if Trump is seen as success in 4 years, it's probably JD Vance. Unless Trump figures out how to get one of his sons in office.

It's completely open for Democrats at the moment.

*I already see JDVance as way too slippery. He's a Rorschach test.

Of course, if Trump goes 4 years, it's likely Vance will have done hundreds of "xplaining" Trump actions and sayings and possibly will just be looking like a gratuitous worm and yes-man by then. Because if he doesn't, he'll be ousted.

Why would Trump be any different this term. I expect nothing different.

Vance will have the inside track for the GOP. I think it’s 50/50!that Trump dies in 2027 letting Vance take 2028 in a walk.

On the Democrat side it’s harder. Walz is not just weird but will need a trip to Earl Scheib or/and Cutco to have a chance in what will be a DEI Democrat primary. Said primary will be a hatefest and will pick a far left candidate. The defeat the Democrats just took will make them run far left for a decade. They started this in 2017 but had a moment of sanity when they cleared the field for Biden in 2020. This time there is no Biden type to pick. It will be a circus.

Quote: AZDuffman

Vance will have the inside track for the GOP. I think it’s 50/50!that Trump dies in 2027 letting Vance take 2028 in a walk.

On the Democrat side it’s harder. Walz is not just weird but will need a trip to Earl Scheib or/and Cutco to have a chance in what will be a DEI Democrat primary. Said primary will be a hatefest and will pick a far left candidate. The defeat the Democrats just took will make them run far left for a decade. They started this in 2017 but had a moment of sanity when they cleared the field for Biden in 2020. This time there is no Biden type to pick. It will be a circus.

I think the Democrats will try to get back to what they thought was their permanent base. Just like any political animal, they want power back and will move in a direction overall that they think will get them there.

Vance may be a possibility but there can be an awful lot of controversy his boss could cause in the next four years.

I’m guessing it will be a long time before the Democratic Party runs a woman again. Josh Shapiro and Gavin Newsom come to mind. Or they might go with a rising star whose name I don’t know yet.

Quote: JimRockford

I’m guessing it will be a long time before the Democratic Party runs a woman again. Josh Shapiro and Gavin Newsom come to mind. Or they might go with a rising star whose name I don’t know yet.

I still don’t think it was feasible to run a selection process in that short of a time period. And Biden wasn’t going to hold up. It was a rock and a hard place.

I don’t take from that, that a woman shouldn’t run again. What woman, I don’t know.

Quote: rxwine

I still don’t think it was feasible to run a selection process in that short of a time period. And Biden wasn’t going to hold up. It was a rock and a hard place.

I don’t take from that, that a woman shouldn’t run again. What woman, I don’t know.

Maybe, but winning the White House isn’t just about selling policy positions. Democratic underperformance among young men, black men and hispanic men was striking. Elizabeth Warren won’t fix that.

Quote: JimRockford

Maybe, but winning the White House isn’t just about selling policy positions. Democratic underperformance among young men, black men and hispanic men was striking. Elizabeth Warren won’t fix that.

I'm not limiting it to Warren or anyone who defines a particular niche on the left. I don't see anyone in particular at the moment, but we're still aways away.

Quote: rxwine

I'm not limiting it to Warren or anyone who defines a particular niche on the left. I don't see anyone in particular at the moment, but we're still aways away.

4 years before Obama ran he probably wasn’t on any lists. The Democrats will push Hakeem Jeffries. Maybe Shapiro picks up steam. There is always Newsom if California isn’t considered too much of a failure by then.

The Republicans may get stuck with Vance, sort of like the Democrats did with Harris.