The 2028 Democratic presidential nominee will likely be a governor

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Today's Top Stories - September 7, 2026

Today's Top Stories - September 7, 2026

The race for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination is underway and will intensify immediately following the 2026 midterm elections. Several Democrats have taken the early steps needed to begin what will likely be a multi-billion-dollar undertaking should he or she become the party’s nominee.

What is driving this likely multi-candidate and contentious contest is an overwhelming belief among political prognosticators that 2028 will be another in a series of change elections since President Trump’s 2016 victory. Democrats sense that Trumpism is losing altitude and voters will be looking for something very different. And those candidates who have a record of delivering real change are what voters want.  

Presidential candidates who hail from the halls of Congress are unlikely to succeed. The Gallup poll finds just 16 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. And congressional Democrats don’t fare much better. Just 18 percent of all voters and 42 percent of self-identified Democrats approve of the way they are doing their job. 

For Democratic members of Congress showing early signs of presidential ambition — Sens. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.J.) and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) — this is........

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