The 2028 US presidential election is still four years away, yet the political elite are already engaged in a furious shadow war—and a leading Democratic contender has pressed the panic button. In an extraordinary public warning, California Governor Gavin Newsom, widely considered a prime candidate for the next cycle, has suggested that the next contest could be deliberately 'rigged' from the start.
His target is not the ageing, recently defeated former president himself, but the enduring mechanism of the MAGA movement and the young political stars being groomed to inherit its immense power.
