Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said he was considering a 2028 presidential bid in a new interview Thursday.
“You got to look at this, you got to be comfortable understanding the family room. You got to be comfortable understanding, literally, the classroom, comfortable in the, what I would call, the boardroom, comfortable in the Situation Room, and periodically comfortable in emergency room,” Emanuel told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
“And my problem is, our party’s only been good in the locker room and the bathroom. And so, you got to be comfortable in all those rooms and understand that,” Emanuel, who is also a CNN commentator, continued, referring to the ongoing debate over transgender women playing on women’s sports teams.
“I have been there,” Emanuel added. “I have something I think I can offer. But I haven't made that decision. So, if I said I wasn't, it wouldn't be true. If I said I have decided, that also wouldn't be true.”
Emanuel has acknowledged he’s considering running for president in 2028 and has been one of the party’s loudest critics after Democrats suffered a disappointing November election.
He’s notably described the Democratic Party brand as “weak and woke” and “toxic” and suggested the party has only lost supporters in recent years.
“Politics is addition, not subtraction, and we’ve been doing subtraction really well,” he said at an Economic Club of Chicago event in March, according to WGN-TV.
He’s also stoked speculation that he could be instead heightening his profile for a possible gubernatorial run; Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), also seen as a 2028 hopeful, has not said whether he plans to run for a third term as governor.
Democrats are sure to see a crowded field for the primary as a handful of other Democrats weigh bids or have been floated for the job, including Govs. Gavin Newsom of California, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, Pritzker and Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), among others.
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