2028 US Presidential Election

[unloadonme]

I'm sure someone is going to say this thread is premature, but I have no doubt that potential candidates are already jockeying for position, so here goes.

What particularly prompted me to start the thread is this BBC report that Kamala Harris is considering running again. She can't possibly be being serious. Or can she?

Kamala Harris tells BBC she may run for president again

The former US vice-president made her strongest suggestion to date she will make another bid for the White House

www.bbc.co.uk

Pete Buttigieg seems to get talked about. Is his sexuality going to be a problem for the electorate? Is his beard?

Pete Buttigieg warns Democrats can't go back to status quo after President Trump (NPR; July 28, 2025)

 

[cityboy-stl]

She may be talking about it, but I don't think she has a chance, and I don't think she should. I can see her having a position in a Democratic administration, though; UN Ambassador, maybe?

If any openly gay person can win, I think Pete could do it. We couldn't have a Catholic president until JFK. We couldn't have a divorced president until Reagan. We couldn't have a black president until Obama. But my admiration and support for Pete has nothing to do with sexuality. Pete has the brain power, the experience both domestically and internationally, he has domestic and military experience, the organizational and communication skills, the emotional intelligence and calmness, and the reasonable, rational, realistic views to get things done and to be a real leader. When I look back at the 2020 election, all the other candidates (Biden included) just placated my despair over the present, Pete Buttigieg gave me hope for the future. That's why I support him.

 

[rareboy]

Unless the Dems magically take Congress in 2026, there won't be an election in 2028.

 

[unloadonme]

Unless the Dems magically take Congress in 2026, there won't be an election in 2028.

I don't believe that for one moment.

 

[CoolBlue71]

UPCOMING TOPIC ALERT:

I plan to write and post a topic on the 2026 Midterm Elections between [Saturday,] November 1 to [Monday,] November 3, 2025.

I may title it “2026 Midterm Elections: One Year Out,” to get an advanced look at what may be coming.

Scheduled date for the general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026.

With respect to every person, I ask that this be allowed just for me because of how I will present it in my Opening Post. (It will be fairly detailed.)

Spoiler Alert: People will, for the most part, like it.

 

[rareboy]

I don't believe that for one moment.

You need to look into Project 2025 and the plans to ensure that there are no free and fair elections in 2026 or 2028.

Already the GQP states are redrawing already heavily gerrymandered electoral maps to strip democrats of any representation. There is already a plan in place to ensure that any Dem wins in Blue States that are critical will be challenged as fraudulaent.

The US is literally on the brink of running their elections like a third world failed democracy.

 

[unloadonme]

You need to look into Project 2025 and the plans to ensure that there are no free and fair elections in 2026 or 2028.

Already the GQP states are redrawing already heavily gerrymandered electoral maps to strip democrats of any representation. There is already a plan in place to ensure that any Dem wins in Blue States that are critical will be challenged as fraudulaent.

The US is literally on the brink of running their elections like a third world failed democracy.

You're shifting your ground already. Redrawing electoral maps by the ruling party to increase the chances of an additional win here or there is one thing. To say "there won't be an election in 2028" is something else entirely.

British governments have regularly been accused of redrawing constituency maps to their advantage. It never actually seems to make much difference and nobody really cares. I can see that that may happen in the US too. It wouldn't affect the presidential vote though because the electoral college system is based on state-wide votes rather than the results is separate districts.

Just about every election result ever in sub-Saharan Africa has routinely been alleged to be fraudulent by the losing party. Trump tried it on in 2020 and it got him nowhere. Will the losing party in 2028 really throw their toys out of the pram like a petulant child? Would it make any difference to the result if they did? If it was a narrow issue which the Supreme Court could decide, such as the hanging chads case in Florida back in 2000, maybe. Otherwise, I think not. Either way, you're talking about how the election is conducted and you seem to have abandoned your theory that somehow Trump will find a way to cancel the election altogether.

 

[rareboy]

The test will be 2026. Watch what the GQP does then.

But come 2028, expect TrumpCo. to suspend the election because of war or insurrection. They don't plan on giving up the Executive branch or the Legislative branch.

And if the Dems don't win the House and Senate in 2026, expect the GQP to support TrumpCo. in remaining in power and to suspend elections.

They had their trial run at a coup in 2021. This time they don't plan on failing.

 

[Norri]

If the republicans are going to gerrymander certain states to ensure they hold the house in 2026 it seems counterintuitive to say they will also cancel the election…….it could be one or the other but doing both is redundant.

 

[rareboy]

^ That isn't the way the constitution or voting works and we are talking about the presidential election, not future House and Senate elections. The House can be permanently gerrymandered to ensure GQP will hold it forever, but it will take the House and Senate to support suspending a presidential election.

 

[Norri]

^ That isn't the way the constitution or voting works and we are talking about the presidential election, not future House and Senate elections. The House can be permanently gerrymandered to ensure GQP will hold it forever, but it will take the House and Senate to support suspending a presidential election.

To believe the House can be gerrymandered forever is to believe that the economy will never have a serious downturn. The republicans were largely blamed for the 08 collapse and even though they controlled neither the House or the Senate they still got clobbered. In most elections the economy is the #1 issue as long as that remains true gerrymandering can only do so much.

Congress has no power to cancel an election.

 

[rareboy]

TrumpCo. will need the House and Senate behind him to pull off suspension of an election. And you have no idea at all about the type of legislation they will bring to the floor over the next two years to enable him in his coup d'etat.

 

[Norri]

^ I think you need the military to suspend an election since congress doesn’t have the authority to do so but I hope they think the way you think rather than the way I think.

Deploying the national guard to cities for specious reasons concerns me far more than anything congress is likely to do.

 

[rareboy]

Deploying the National Guard to cities in Blue States for specious reasons is also a component of their plan to suspend elections.

Although at this point, I don't think it is actually working out as well as they had intended.

 

[Thad1527]

Watch this November's gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia.

 

[rareboy]

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This. The GQP know that in order to position for 2028, they have to win the House and Senate by any means possible...even using the election chaos they plan to stage to
paralyze the Legislative Branch entirely as a pretext for Trump to take even more powers for the Executive.

 

[rareboy]

Can't Stress This Enough...US voters...please don't let yourselves and us down again.

 

[pigface]

"The government you elect is the government you deserve."
[Thomas Jefferson]

 

[Franco Verum]

My governor Gavin Newsom and AOC as his vice pres.