Ex-Obama official Rahm Emanuel who's likely to run for president in 2028 says Democrat brand is 'weak, woke, toxic'

Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff of the Barack Obama administration, who is a frontrunner for the 2028 election, said the current brand of the Democratic Party is weak, woke and toxic.

Emmanuel thinks his party put too much focus on "culture war issues" which opened the door for President Donald Trump. “If you want the country to give you the keys to the car, somebody’s got to be articulating an agenda that’s fighting for America, not just fighting Trump,” Emanuel told the Wall Street Journal. “The American dream has become unaffordable. It’s inaccessible. And that has to be unacceptable to us.”“I’m empathetic and sympathetic to a child trying to figure out their pronoun, but it doesn’t trump the fact that the rest of the class doesn’t know what a pronoun is,” he said.Emanuel is a long-time Democrat who wore many hats as a former congressman, a two-term mayor of Chicago and the ambassador to Japan. Emanuel took a jab at Kamala Harris coronation as the party's nominee without any primary in 2024 and said in 2028 the voters will be lucky and they will have a real debate, one they did not have in 2024.Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a recent interview that she believes Emanuel will run for president in 2028.

Pelosi was asked by The Free Press whether Emanuel will launch a bid for the White House. “I think so,” Pelosi responded.Emanuel, too, never dismissed any speculation over his bid. “Before I make a decision, I want to know that I have an answer to what I think ails our country, ails our politics, and ails the party—and they may all be the same answer,” Emanuel said to The Free Press. "I’m not done with public service," Emanuel said. "I’m hoping it’s not done with me."Kamala Harris has not yet announced her next political move, and a 2028 run was not ruled out, though she is also weighing in on whether she should run for California governor.