Official 2028 United Stated Presidential Election Thread (+Senate&House Elections)

This is the original list they have given us

4.4	JD Vance		30	Mark Cuban
12.5	Michelle Obama		210	Andrew Yang
10.5	Gavin Newsom		160	Ted Cruz
15	Ron Desantis		130	Raphael Warnock
15.5	Pete Buttigieg		130	Joe Rogan
18	Josh Shapiro		130	Tim Walz
25	Tucker Carlson		130	AOC
20	JB Pritzker		130	Andrew Cuomo
20	Vivek		130	Amy Klobuchar
20	Gretchen Whitmer		10.5	Glenn Youngkin
20	Nikki Haley		210	Mike Pence
21	Tulsi Gabbard		210	Candace Owens
44	Donald Trump Jnr		210	Liz Cheney
60	Ivanka Trump		210	Roger Goodell
42	RFKjnr		210	Taylor Swift
70	Hilary Clinton		210	Tom Brady
55	Jon Ossof		210	Lebron James
200	Oprah		210	Bernie Sanders
60	Josh Hawley		210	Dana White
60	Kamala		210	Kanye West
60	Fetterman		210	Aaron Rodgers
60	Tom Cotton		210	Caitlyn Jenner
60	Kristi Noem		210	Leonardo DiCaprio
110	Bloomberg		400	Alex Jones
			220	George Clooney

No Trump, he would still have attracted some money IMO.

Things would have to go badly awry for Vance not to be the candidate.

I can't recall if Al Gore was challenged in primaries.

I can't see Desantis having a shot unless the 2nd Trump term is a fiasco

It wil be now or never for Newsom on the other side. But Shapiro, Beshear, Whitmer, Mark Kelly (who Obama especially likes) would be strong competition.

Michelle Obama once again in the top 3 despite having no aspirations to be president.

Will always depend on the opponent, but I agree they will likely look to play it very safe. No ethnic minority (AOC), no sexual preference minority (Buttigieg), no religious minority (Shapiro), no woman (no Whitmer/AOC).

The only exception would be if the Democrats can lure Trump and the MAGAs into ripping the term limit apart so that Trump could get another four years in their dreams. Then we'd get a Kenyan/English man from Hawai'i up against the Swedish/Scottish incumbent from NYC.

Trump v Obama would be a good un.

The dynamic with AOC seems more about her being a high profile progressive rather than being a woman. The DNC scuppered Bernie Sanders but you'd have to think there's going to be a drive for something new, a more populist option as wounds get licked and whether you like her policies or not she's an obvious superstar.

AOC is a master manipulator of people. I've watched her play Among Us.

Well it of course depends on what everything that happens between Jan 20 2025 up until election day 2028!

I'm assuming Trump attended a few his baby oil parties and will pardon a fellow sex offender.

Don't forget Baron, he's a very smart young man. Trump can always amend the constitution so baron's age won't be a bar.

Don't dampen my hopes for pictures of oiled up, nekkid and lewd Donald like that please.

If you are batting for the other side you would probably like Michelle all oiled up.

Sounds like you are getting your sides mixed up.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/batting+for+the+other+side

We should not blindly, without a thought in sight, just sheepishly lemming around.

No thread about the Chaos in German politics Edy ?

Things dont seem to be going too well No growth for two years

and Infighting about Monies

I start very few threads on here. This one just about being the only one in years. I'm not a hugely Dramatic Darren constantly lusting for often imagined controversy like you are. So why would you expect me to start one honestly?

Even if coalitions break, Germans don't chaos around. We are not a sensationalist tabloid society that treats its politics like a reality tv show.

One of the coalition partners came up with suggestions that were unacceptable for the chancellor. The chancellors ideas in turn were unacceptable for that particular coalition partner. You terminate the contract and one day have new elections.

That's politics, particularly in a country with a rather fractured party system where governing often requires consensus decisions between differing ideologies. Sometimes it strains the partners as they feel they have made too many concessions already or are asked to cross a red line and then you vote again. It's not the first coalition that is terminated early and it will not.

Chaos would be more applicable if we had one-party-governments with constantly changing chancellors instead of a chancellor not seeing out their full term for only the fourth time ever in more than 70 years now.

And hey, Germany did show growth in the most recent quarter, although that will probably be rather short-lived if the US Congress goes through with Trump's anti-European agenda.