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((The hill)-Democrats are still licking their wounds of the defeat of the then Vice President Kamala Harris last November and with the effects of President Donald Trump’s second term.
At the moment they are essentially a leading party. But that will change in due course.
The presidential field 2028 looks far open from this distance. However, some prominent democrats have already undertaken movements that seem to be clearly geared towards the next presidential cycle.
The hill classified the Republican presidential candidates on Sunday.
Here are the ranking of the Hill, where the democratic competitors are.
1. California Gavin Newsom
The Californian governor, never a shrinking violet, has increased his criticism of Trump in the past few weeks – to his obvious advantage.
Gavin Newsom has led Trolling Trump on social media, often with postings that the idiosyncratic and hyperbolic language of President Ape.
In the past few days he has started a line of goods in Trump’s characteristic red Bearing slogans like “Newsom was quite with everything” and explained in all caps: “Many people say that these are the biggest that has ever been produced.”
Nevertheless, it is not all fun and game. In a public conversation in a political forum at the end of last week, he suggested that Trump would run for a constitutional third term and “simply described the most destructive and harmful person in my life”.
The no-holds approach pays off for Newsom. In a recent national survey by the democratic primary voters from Emerson College, Newsom was far ahead of his two main competitors Harris and former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg. Remarkably, he was third behind both when the same organization had carried out a survey in June.
Of course there are news skeptics. They question the election of such a stereotypical California candidate in the battlefields of the rust belt and in the southwest.
But for the time being, Newsom has catapulted itself into the status of the Front Runner status.
2. Rep. Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (NY)
If democratic voters want to replace their party facility, make a generation change and switch to the left, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez- “AOC” is alike.
The New York Congressman naturally drives many Republican voters to apoplexia. But the voters, who even agree to their policies, consider them as a charismatic and politically brave figure that can bring the fight against the GOP instead of adhering to the defense.
Ocasio-Cortez is still only 35 and is easily the most prominent democratic politician of her generation with enormous social media.
Their guidelines put the center-left-left left aside, which has been under most of the party in recent decades, and instead searched Medicare for everyone, the Green New Deal, the abolition of the immigration and customs authority (ICE) and a federal job guarantee.
Is the platform for the battlefield state-America to Left or for the type of agenda that can conjure up an excitement that has been missing in democratic politics since the Obama years?
Conservative Americans would be energized to oppose her. But the great crowds that she showed together with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) On a number of rallies at the beginning of this year, demonstrate their calling on progressive.
3. Former Vice President Kamala Harris
Harris will shortly go a bay tour to publish their campaign memoirs “107 days”. The title of the book refers to the duration of her campaign after the dramatic decision by the then President Joe Biden to give up his search for re -election last year.
The bay tour will also be a comprehensive test for how much Appeal Harris has under the democratic basis.
Despite her awareness – Vice President, Presidential candidate 2020 and Senator from the nation’s most populous state – Harris remains a mystery.
The bid of 2020 was started with a massive fanfare, but ultimately proved to be overwhelming. Her performance during her 2024 sprint had striking heights when she was generally assessed as the winner of her only debate with Trump; And unpleasant lows, like when she was asked about ABC’s “The View” whether she had done anything other than bidges and stated that “nothing came to mind”.
If she drives another offer for the presidency, a lot depends on two objective democratic voters you look at: a candidate who gave her best under extremely arduous conditions in 2024 and could do a better time second time; Or a politician who never meets her billing and from whom the party should continue.
4. Maryland Governor Wes Moore
Governor Wes Moore recently stood in the bizarre, trump -related spotlight. The President claimed that the governor of Maryland informed him at the end of last year in the Army Navy football game that Trump was “the greatest president of my life”.
Moore reacted to this on social media With a uncomplicated “lol” And told a “imaginary conversation” to a Maryland radio station. Video from the game of Moore’s version of events without words broadcast by Fox News in which Trump was exchanged.
Moore has recently followed a Newsom liter approach that was kept with Trump on social media. At the age of 46, he would bring part of Ocasio-Cortez’s generation changes to a political agenda without the left.
However, Moore is not yet so well known that it was not really tested at the highest level.
5. Illinois governor JB Pritzker
Governor JB Pritzker is another democratic governor who has locked up horns with Trump – most recently because of the president’s considerations that he could operate the National Guard to Chicago or boost the number of ice agents in the city.
Pritzker said the Associated Press last week that it was “illegal, unconstitutional, frankly that it was un -American to send troops to a large American city if necessary. In an earlier declaration, Pritzker Trump accused of” making a crisis “and” using his power “.
The combative Pritzker, a sprout of the family that belongs to the Hyatt hotel chain, is very opulent. Forbes estimates that he is the richest political official in America with A Net value of 3.9 billion US dollars.
That could be a double -edged sword. He doesn’t have to worry about collecting money from donors for a presidential campaign, but his fortune could make it more arduous for him to win Americans of the working class.
6. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been seen as an emerging democratic star for some time. Lately she has been less open to Trump than some of her party colleagues.
However, this approach has achieved mixed results. For the wrong reasons, she became viral in April and used a folder to protect her face from photographers when she was in the Oval Office when Trump signed the executive orders.
Whitmer tried to laugh, and her wider argument is that her main obligation is to take care of the interests of her Michigan electorate.
Whitmer’s success of gaining two terms in an essential battlefield state, she recommends many democratic insiders. An true and appealing personality also helps her.
However, Whitmer was able to face a problem that does not have its own production. Would the party only nominate a woman twice in the last three election cycles and lose both times?
7. Former transport secretary Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg is one of the best media artists of the party. He also has a sturdy appeal to the highly educated and wealthy voters who are always well represented in the democratic basis.
Buttigieg was one of the surprises of the cycle of 2020 and achieved better in the primaries than many people predicted.
But the best chosen office he held is as Mayor of South Bend, ind.
8. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro
One of the gigantic “what if” the Harris campaign 2024 revolves around Shapiro. Would he – the popular governor of a decisive battlefield – have been a better choice as a vice presidential candidate as a vice presidential candidate as her later running mate Minnesota, Tim Walz?
Shapiro is a polished and ambitious performer.
However, he could fall victim to the party of the party about Israel and his behavior in Gaza if this conflict for primary voters in the 2028 cycle remains outstanding.
Shapiro, who is Jewish, is one of the most pro-Israeli voices of a party whose voters have changed significantly towards the Palestinian cause.
An economy/YouGov survey asked the Americans last week which side they sympathized with more in conflict. Only 15 percent of the Democrats called Israel, while 44 percent agreed with the Palestinians.
Shapiro, which in a phase, led an awkward comparison between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and the KU Klux clan, is not well placed to navigate these transverse flows.
9. Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.)
Connecticut’s senator could at least theoretically offer the democratic voters a “best of all worlds” approach.
In his criticism of Trump, Senator Chris Murphy was emphatic, which he sees as a danger to democracy, and effectively used social media. But it is also a largely conventional senator that is not straightforward to characterize than outside the American mainstream.
The challenge for Murphy is to exceed some of the larger names on this list.
10. Kentucky governor Andy Beshear
Governor Andy Beshear has achieved a remarkable success for a democrat in a deep red state.
In 2023 he won a re -election to a second term by 5 points. To say the least, this is in view of Trump’s 26-point victory in 2020 and his 31-point scurf in 2024.
BESHEAR has partially established this constitutional knowledge by partially focusing on comparatively impartial topics such as infrastructure investments. But he has the liberal line for at least one balmy button topic: In March he took a republican bill that almost completely banned the abortion in his state.
Could Besear be a 2028 murky horse? Perhaps. But it is also likely that primary voters want a fiery and more progressive standard carrier.
