Rahm Emanuel: I’m Considering 2028 White House Bid

The Hill reports:

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.

“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.

Read the full article. Back in April, Emanuel called Democrats “weak and woke.”

“There’s two words that define the Democratic Party for the public. Weak and woke,” says Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff under Obama and Ambassador to Japan under Biden. He shares his agenda to fix the Dems’ “toxic” brand. @RahmEmanuel @WalterIsaacson pic.twitter.com/Coo8cXwIhe

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