#2028 election

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Will America ever get a president who doesn't lie?

[deadpresidents]

I find it worrisome how so many Dems I know have been focused on The Kennedy Center and the Reflecting Pool lately, but then when I bring up competitive races this fall, they're a bit clueless. A family member of mine, who's an activist, didn't even realize that her Republican member of Congress is vulnerable.

Do you share my concern that Democrats tend to fixate on Trump, rather than on elections and winning back power?

Yes, I agree. The focus should be on the midterms and the fact that President Trump has flushed practically any form of dissent or moderation from the Republican Party through his endorsements of the most extreme of the extremists, state-by-state, throughout the entire primary season.

Instead of the Reflecting Pool or The Kennedy Center or the ballroom or the UFC fight that was held at the White House, Democrats should be showing voters just who these people are that Trump has endorsed over more traditional Republican incumbents during this cycle.

But more than anything, Democrats should be hammering home how desperate things are for Americans economically because of the disastrous war with Iran that Trump launched (and, let's be honest: a war that we did not win). There'a a direct line from the war to millions of Americans struggling to pay for gas and groceries and utilities. Democrats should be buying up ad time and playing Trump's dismissive comments about inflation and skyrocketing cost-of-living while pointing out how he and his family are making a shitload of money while we all struggle. He's literally sitting in the Oval Office super gluing more gold shit on the walls while people can't pay for groceries or gasoline.

I'd love to see someone like Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear take a page out of Bill Clinton's 1992 playbook and just take aim at the economy with laser focus. He should say we need to block out all of the performative distractions and make the economy the center of everything the Democratic Party does or says. The ability for Americans to eat and pay their electricity bills and fill their car up with gas to get to work normally shouldn't be a fucking luxury (or impossibility), and I want to see a Democrat just stand on that corner and make that the only thing they talk about for the next two years.

[truth-has-a-liberal-bias]

BANNON: “Trump will be president in 2028 and get a third term. People oughta get accommodated with that.” INTERVIEWER: “What about the constitution?” BANNON: “He’s a vehicle of divine providence.”

It's easy to laugh off this clip of Bannon saying Trump plans to stay and seek a third term, despite the constitution very clearly saying he can't do that.Our advice: DON'T.

Bannon may be a radical extremist, but he has also been telling you what is going to happen for a very long time. The problem is not enough people have been listening.

We have. We choke down as much of his podcast as we can stand. For months before it happened Bannon was very clear that January 6th 2021 was going to be a problematic day, and he may very well have had a hand in it. Bannon has been platforming folks like Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard and Russ Vought and others long before they became major parts of the new Trump machine. 

When Bannon speaks, you should at the very least listen.

The Tennessee Holler

[b3m0r3ch1ll]

idk a lot, man, but i DO know that in the 2028 election will wood and chris dunne will be eligible to run. THOSE are my presidents

[originalleftist]

US Election Results (November 4th 2025):

-MAMDANI WON NEW YORK CITY MAYOR, as expected.

This is a monumental win for the "progressive" and "pro-Palestine" wings of the Democratic Party. Whether it is a win for New York and the US will depend on how effectively Mamdani can work with more moderate Democrats (I neither expect nor want him to work with Republicans), and what, if anything, he will do to reassure those who doubt his commitment to fighting antisemitism.

It will also mean escalating conflict between NY and the Federal Regime, but that was coming regardless. At least now America's largest city presumably has a mayor who won't role over and offer its people up to ICE on a silver platter.

-SPANBERGER WON VIRGINIA GOVERNOR!

This is a huge win, as its a flip in a race that was polling quite close, in a large state that Democrats probably can't win the Presidency without, and removed the MAGA lickspittle Gov. Youngkin.

Its also VA's first woman governor!

Perhaps most importantly, we all know that Tr*mp and MAGA won't leave power willingly in 2028, whatever the Constitution or any election results say. On Jan. 6th, 2021, VA's then-Democratic governor sent National Guard forces to DC. Youngkin almost certainly would not have- or would have sent them to aid the coup. Who is VA Governor, and what they do, will be immensely important to securing DC when the next crisis comes.

-DEMOCRATS RETAINED CONTROL OF ALL THREE CONTESTED SEATS ON THE PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT, AND THE MAJORITY OF THE COURT!

This is another absolutely vital win. Even though the MAGA-controlled US Supreme Court has the final say judicially-speaking, this will continue to bog down MAGA's agenda in the courts.

Moreover, because Pennsylvania is probably THE single most important swing state in the US (Florida now being solidly red and Texas too voter-suppressed to be truly competitive for Democrats). Both times Tr*mp won, he won with PA. When he lost to Biden, he lost PA. It is extremely doubtful that Democrats could regain power even in a relatively fair election without PA- and the PA Supreme Court will be hearing cases on voting rights and election results in that state, which will be hard-fought.

Had we lost those seats, the state Supreme Court could have deadlocked, which would have been a disaster going into the 2026 and 2028 elections. That outcome is now averted.

It's also a very positive sign for Democrats to win like this in such a vital swing state.

STILL OUTSTANDING AS OF THIS TIME:

The big one is Prop 50 in California, the resolution to redistrict and create more Democratic-leaning seats to counter Republican partisan redistricting in other states.

MY ULTIMATE TAKEAWAY FOR TONIGHT:

People often overlook local and state level elections, focussing on federal races, especially the Presidential one. This is a mistake. While those races are doubtless of vital importance, a great deal in the US is decided at the state and local levels, and with all branches of the Federal currently under MAGA Regime control, this is where the most meaningful checks and resistance can be and is occurring.

And, let's be honest about this: We all know that MAGA will not leave peacefully, as I said above. They didn't last time, and they will be FAR more entrenched and prepared now. They will not honour the Constitution or elections in 2028, and given that they are already refusing to seat Adelita Grijalva, a Democratic Congresswoman elected in Arizona in a special election, I very much doubt that they will honour the 2026 midterms either.

When the crisis comes, any meaningful resistance to a MAGA attempt to rig, overturn, or ignore elections will likely begin at the state and local level, specifically in Democratic-controlled cities and states.

Tonight, above all else, is about who we have in those positions when that time comes.

[onenakedfarmer]

He's already said it out loud, on the world stage, in front of cameras.

[gnosticgnoob]

Patrick Bateman cosplayer Gavin Newsom: "The spirit of Reagan is very alive in the walls surrounding me. Now we have an invasive species, Donald Trump, in relation to that… the populism of Trump is reflected in Bernie and AOC and our politics on the left."

Your sleaze candidate is dead on arrival, right out of the gate. Go blog angry about it, you little pissbaby bigot.

[cachien]

now that we've established felons can't vote but CAN be president and also already introduced a scenario in which the incoming elected president might go to jail for the length of his presidency, we're all voting luigi next time right?? like i know the whole ayn rand thing w/e but,,, like i just think he could fix things