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Osita Nwanevu

You may not know it, but the Democratic primaries for 2028 are already under way

US-VOTE-POLITICS-ELECTION<br>A person exits a voting booth at a polling station at the CD McIntyre Building in Whitefield, New Hampshire, on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)
‘The 2028 primary promises another crowded and wide-open field of contenders.’⁠ Photograph: Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty Images

Every American presidential campaign is many years in the making. So, what’s the state of the 2028 Democratic primary race now? The Democratic party’s most eligible candidates for the next election have been scheming, climbing, wheeling and dealing for their shot at the ticket for years. Plans were being hatched for the cycles ahead well before Biden garnered the nomination for himself in 2020.

Like that race, 2028 promises another crowded and wide-open field of contenders ⁠– polls have taken the Democratic electorate’s temperature on as many as 20 potential candidates, from Kamala Harris, who is reportedly considering a run for California’s governor instead, to the sports pundit Stephen A Smith.

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