Rahm Emanuel is Likely to Run for President in 2028
“I’m not done with public service and I’m hoping public service is not done with me.”
Rahm Emanuel has a lengthy resume. In addition to serving as the mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019, he served as a member of Congress, was the U.S. ambassador to Japan, and the White House chief of staff for Barack Obama.
There are already rumblings that Emanuel will run for president in 2028. If he does, he will be a formidable force in the 2028 Democratic primary, which will probably be a crowded field.
Politico is already covering this:
Rahm Emanuel Is Gearing Up to Run for President
Rahm Wants to Run.
Yes, that Rahm. And, yes, for that office — the presidency.
“I’ve only been back two months, I have no idea what I’m doing,” Rahm I. Emanuel, operative-turned-politician-turned-diplomat told me before adding his stock line since returning from serving as ambassador to Japan. “I’m not done with public service and I’m hoping public service is not done with me.”
Ignore that evasion. Rahm Emanuel is voting with his feet.
Since coming home in January from his stint in Tokyo — a job he repurposed to be American envoy to all of Asia — Emanuel has been as visible as any other Democrat. Never mind that he currently holds no office and hasn’t been on a ballot for a decade.
Name the political podcast and Emanuel has likely been on it or will be shortly. He immediately snagged a CNN contract and regular Washington Post column, no small accomplishment for a former official at a moment of retrenchment for news organizations.
They note that Emanuel is already forming the basis of his stump speech:
The biggest Rahm-may-run tell, though, is that he’s already road-testing the first outlines of a stump speech, or at least an issue he can make his own.
I caught it last month when he came to Washington to appear before a conference held by Democracy Forward, a liberal group helping to lead litigation efforts against the Trump administration.
“I am done with the discussion of locker rooms, I am done with the discussion of bathrooms and we better start having a conversation about the classroom,” Emanuel said, drawing applause as he alluded to a new study showing more than two-thirds of eighth graders can’t read at grade level.
Emanuel was test-marketing this talking point on ‘Real Time’ with Bill Maher just two weeks ago. It seemed obvious even then that he was thinking about running. In this clip he manages to break with the Democrats in recent years on major issues. He denounces the lawlessness that has gripped Democrat-run cities, he suggests that while Democrats argue about trans people and bathrooms, kids are not learning to read. He also gets major applause from the audience. Watch:
Bill Maher asks Rahm Emanuel why Chicago's mayor has such a low approval rating, and the panel agrees that Democrat policies have ruined large American cities:
Bill Maher: "I read that the current mayor of Chicago has an approval rating of 6.6%. What's going on in Chicago?"
Rahm… pic.twitter.com/Wn3rj5kQ9v— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) March 1, 2025
If he runs, Emanuel will easily get the backing of Clinton Democrats and the machine associated with them. He will possibly also get the backing of the Obamas. The question is whether the party’s far left base will embrace him, or reject him over his seeming retreat from woke ideology.
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Oh, that’s just peachy…
I am hoping that within 2-3 years that a bunch of Dems have all their illicit money siezed and they are on their way to jail.
Rahm has to get past the Jooooo H8ers in his own party first.
Right. He may present himself as a “New Democrat” (like Bill Clinton) so as to appear more centrist. Bill was a lot of things, but centrist wasn’t one of them. I can’t think of anything positive to say about a Chicago Dem. Get ready for some dirty cage-fighting.
Compared to todays Democrats he would be.
Bill was far closer to the center than most Democrats. Far more centrist than Hillary.
I would argue that his move to the center only occurred due to the 50-seat loss in the 1994 mid-terms, his left-leaning 93-94 record was his real self.
Bill was not so much centrist than someone who could read a room and go with what worked for him at the time.
Bill was a pragmatist with no personal values. He’d do anything to win or score the next chick.
You don’t have to support Emanuel or his politics. But if you care about our country, you should consider this good news. He’s a serious, legitimate Democrat candidate, and a centrist at that. A competent manager. Smart. Worldly. If the Democrats elect him, it will be a very good thing that pulls the party back from (or out of) the abyss. It will be a relief to have a centrist running – at least for those of us who are centrists. Is he to the left of center? Yes. Is he perfect? No. But I – and one heck of a lot of America – would vote for someone like him at this juncture. And get ready, because this guy is a real Chicago Democratic machine knife fighter.
Reselyup — You are not part of the hive. Not part of the echo chamber. Not part of the Borg. You are not welcome here, You must be assimilated!
Yet you are put up with. Ironic.
Show us on the Trump doll where the Bad Orange Man hurt you, Junior.
He’s an Illinois Democrat, specifically he’s a Chicago Democrat. That means he’s corrupt, criminal, and likely impales kittens for fun.
Rahm Emanuel will be the next President of the United States. And you. Will. LIKE it.
You’re not even a good troll.
In your dreams!
I enjoy watching you Democrats fail. You’ve learned nothing.
No one’s going to vote for Obama’s fourth term, dingus.
Especially once Michelle divorces him and the dirt starts leaking out.
Nope, I won’t like it. Can’t make me.
I live in suburban Chicago. We saw through Rahm — he’s all about him and his Clintonista friends, and his Obama friends, and anyone in the Democrat party with money. He came after Richard M. Daley (aka “Short Shanks”), and continued Daley’s long drive to run Chicago into the ground.
Centrist? Leftist? Progressive? None of this — what he cares about is the boodle; who has it and how it’s going to be carved up. He’d be another Biden (only truly ‘woke’, as in, he’d be awake every day) dispensing favors and cash.
You get one thing right — he is a knife fighter, right out of the gutter.
Rahm Emanuel doesn’t concern me as much as his brother, Ezekiel “Curl Up and Die at 75” Emanuel. Hard to believe that putz is an oncologist, but there you have it. Zeke is 67. Perhaps someone should tell him that his Medicare is cancelled and he’s on his own, just as that sphincter would have everyone else do (himself and leftist elites excepted, of course).
You’d vote for someone clearly on the left regardless of who he was running against either in the democrat primary or general election? Why it sounds like you’re on the payroll already. Are you?
Rahm was part of the project to strangle this country with the Obamacare medical disaster. Then he turned his sights on Chicago to help sink it further into being one of the worst major cities in the US. Even with that awful resume, Demorats will vote for him. They never learn! .
Res, you’ve had WAY too much blue kool-aide. Save that BS for CNN.
No one from Chicago. Not nohow. Not never.
He’s a shit Congo Democrat. Nothing good comes from that
He is Obama’s 4th term.
“and a centrist at that.”
Haha!! Oh wait, you’re serious, let me laugh even harder. HAHAHAHA!!!
What is “centrist” about him?
You just don’t get it. This left-wing hack has less chance of getting the nomination than just about anyone I can think of. “Knife fighter?” He’s a Chicago machine politician in a time when people have nothing but contempt for that sort. He’s Barack Obama without the charisma, and it’s hilarious that you think he has the slightest chance of winning… and sad that you support such a creature.
I don’t want centrist Democrats to run. I want them as far left as possible so it makes it easy to not vote for any of them.
he us a formidable opponent
and would probably lose out to a newsome type but take vp
nonetheless
the blmplo army is in charge of the schools,,streets,msm right now
If he was that formidable he’d still be in elected office.
much more can be done outside being in an elected office
How’s that working for him? Want to bet DOGE finds some taxpayer money going into Rahm’s pockets?
“I am done with the discussion of locker rooms, I am done with the discussion of bathrooms and we better start having a conversation about the classroom,” Emanuel said
since most lefty learning is done IN the bathrooms of the world……
He wasn’t saying that when he and his buddy Barack went to their members only bathhouse, Mans Club, in Chicago.
This’ll be like voting for Alinsky or Soros. Leftists will be completely on board, while the rest of us will be horrified.
Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Whoops, didn’t see yours…
Alternative lyrics (head cannon)
Hold me close, I’m tired of dancing
No, the ultimate alternate lyrics:
Hold me closer, Tony Danza…
The USA doesn’t need this little bytch
Done with these losers who have destroyed our Country
“Holder me closer, Tiny Dancer”
LOL!……..Wait? You’re Serious?…….LMAO!
Good luck explaining to the Democrat base that your service in the IDF was a good thing. Honestly, I’m as pro-Israel as anyone. But, I’m very uncomfortable with US citizens serving in foreign armies while still US citizens. I understand that it’s allowable under the US Code so long as
you weren’t an officer (there may be a couple other stipulations as well. Not entirely sure). In any event, there’s ZERO chance the Founders would have viewed foreign military service favorably when they were contemplating the Natural Born Citizenship standard for POTUS. How do you serve as the US Commander-in-Chief when your only military experience was with a foreign army? I don’t think you can.
Lol. He participated in “Sar-El”, and was a civilian volunteer, working on truck maintenance. An OUTRAGE.
A 2-week program for young people, mind you. Haha.
IDGAF. Over the last 30-years, the US has sent hundreds of thousands of men & women into combat, many of them coming back in pieces and too many not coming back at all. And yet, during that same period of time, Rahm Emanual decided to serve to defend a different country than the one he now wants to lead? No thanks.
Did you serve in combat? If so, then I’ll accept what you’re saying. If not, then STFU.
???
so if you havent driven an 18 wheeler you cant have an opinion or comment on that subject?!?!
Did you serve in combat? Resisting arrest doesn’t count.
You’re new around here, aren’t you?
That’s a silly pre-req, but I’ll be your huckleberry.
Marine Corps 91-97
Infantry 0313
3D LAR BN
Iraq and Somalia
And I think that over the last 20’30-years, the US has sent several hundred thousand men & women into combat, too many of which never made it back.
All the while Rahm Emanual was serving another nation.. He wants to lead? I’m sure his mistress nation will take him in
That’s completely wrong. They had plenty of experience both with foreign volunteers coming to help them fight, and with them going off to help foreigners in their wars. They regarded it as a normal thing.
Lafeyette. ‘Nuff said.
MG Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, aka Baron von Steuben, born in Prussia, rose to the rank of Inspector General of the U.S. Army. Died a U.S. citizen.
BG Casimir Pułaski, born in Poland, was granted posthumous honorary U.S. citizenship in 2009, He and his Hungarian pal COL Michael Kováts de Fabriczy are known as the Founding Fathers of the U.S. Cavalry.
Early aboloitionist BG Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, described by Jefferson to be “as pure a son of liberty as I have ever known,” has too many exploits to list but, notably, intended his sizable American estate to be used to manumit and educate black slaves—including Jefferson’s. (Jefferson effed it up, of course.)
As counterpoint, I offer Connecticut-born hero of the battles of Fort Ticonderoga &Fort Saratoga and former MG Benedict Arnold, who stood ready to surrender West Point (architected and fortified by the aformentioned Engineer-in-Chief COL Kościuszko).
The really bizarre thing about this idea is that Rahm Emanuel is to right of the current d/prog party political center. Obama’s former Chief of Staff, the former Mayor of Chicago is to the right of most elected d/prog and d/prog power brokers.
He is well to the right of the current marxist dems running the Democrat party at the moment. I’m not sure what’s bizarre about that, though. (?)
It’s literally the meme of the guy standing still while the politics of the d/prog party move left, then more left, then even more left until he finds himself on the right when he hasn’t moved at all.
Heheh, Happened to me. Happened to many of us. For me illegal immigration and democrat attitudes to it in the 90s red pilled me.
What, EXACTLY, are you basing that claim on?
Hitler is to the right of many of the current crop of Democrat Marxists, so I’m not really sure you’re making much of a comparison.
He will bring with him the same crowd of lunatics and perverts Biden did, because that’s who he has to service to get the nomination.
Maybe …if he gets the nomination and if the d/prog party doesn’t splinter. They have a very shaky coalition. IMO, the center/right populism of MAGA/MAHA along with an assist from high profile events Covid, Ukraine, Trans, Open Borders, Wild deficit spending has caused a bit of an awakening. They can’t rely upon the old certainties of 90%+ ‘Black’ vote, 75%+ ‘Latino’ vote, mass Union member vote to help push the radical Feminist, LGBTQ, Eco extremists and socialist blocs to victory.
Many formerly core d/prog.voters see the Cray Cray policies for what they are; deliberate attempts to destroy middle class and basic Western Civ traditions and values. They pulled the lever for DJT. Others stayed home. IMO the d/prog are on a precipice of their own making b/c they got so far out of touch with what average voters care about. Look at their reaction to DOGE and them forced to.defend Cray Cray spending like Trans Sesame Street in Arabic. It doesn’t make.sense.
Do we need another Obama disciple?
Bingo.
He’s not an 0bama disciple. 0bama was more his disciple.
An old retread? Go ahead, Dems. The young Republicans have new candidates such as Vance and DeSantis and others. We need new young blood.
His work for the most anti-American president ever should be noted, and all one must do is look around to what his boss gave us. Where was his concern then?
He might not be done with public service but the public is so done with him.
I personally don’t think Rahm stands much of a chance once the Aryan, I mean Palestinian Brotherhood gets to work against his potential candidacy. Rahm was a do-nothing mayor, his brother Zeke (an oncologist of all things!) is the one who said people should just die at 75 and be done with it, and both of them are so glued to the Obamatross that it would be hard to shake that. We’ll see. Feh.
this is more on target
“I am done with the discussion of locker rooms, I am done with the discussion of bathrooms and we better start having a conversation about the classroom,” Emanuel said, drawing applause as he alluded to a new study showing more than two-thirds of eighth graders can’t read at grade level.”
Well, if YOUR union teachers weren’t wasting the kids’ time with all the incessant pride shit, and all the incessant trans shit, and all the incessant Resistance shit, maybe they’d have time left over to teach them to read.
What he means by “a conversation about the classroom” is hiring more unionized teachers to funnel taxpayer money into his campaign.
Yes, that is definitely what he means. He may even mean it sincerely and not for the money, but it’s still what he means. It’s the only means Democrats can imagine to improve education, and they’re constantly surprised when it doesn’t work. Their answer is always that we didn’t do enough of it.
They’re the same with their conviction that restricting gun rights must reduce crime, and if it doesn’t it just means we need even more of it. No matter how high crime is, they’re convinced that it would be worse if we had more gun freedom. And many/most of them honestly believe this, just as medieval doctors believed in the medicinal power of blood loss.
“Their answer is always that we didn’t do enough of it.”
As is the answer of all Marxists.
Chicago had something like a 50% graduation rate when he was mayor if I recall correctly. Yes, rham, let’s discuss the classroom.
I don’t think he’s viable to be the President. He never served in our military but he did serve twice in a forgein military!
https://mondoweiss.net/2008/11/rahm-volunteered-for-idf-twice-and-maybe-thats-a-good-thing/
He volunteered for a good cause. That’s one of his few good points. What have you ever done to make the world a better place? Reading Mondoweiss doesn’t do that.
His rivals used to say quite a bit /
That as a monarch he was most unfit /
But still in all they had to admit /
That he LOVED his MOTHERRRRRRR…
–TOM LEHRER, OEDIPUS REX
Yeah, yeah, blah, blah, blah. Even if there were a sane Democrat (and I am not saying Rahm is such) elected to office who was not an anti-Israel pro-abortion supporter, once elected, where would such a one find people to staff his administration, if not from the lunatics that are the current day Democrat party?
Just no. No!
We could only hope he gets the Dem nomination. At 5’7” in height, which google is probably inflating, he’d be a pipsqueak on the debate stage against the JD Vance, who clocks in at about 6’2”.
Where are telephone books when you need them? He can’t stand on a pile of smart phones.
Who?
And who cares. Bigger fish to fry
This is the first potential presidential candidate to take seriously because nobody has ever heard his name, fewer people know who he his, and still fewer can name anything he has ever said or done.
That said the state of the economy will determine the winner of the 2028 election.
no election integrity and the ability of the generationally dumbed-down populace to reason will determine elections. If we are relying on elections to save the republic, we are in a world of hurt. S
2024 election results say otherwise. If the economy thrives we will win 2028 possibly in a landslide. Democrats are on the wrong side of the American people on every social issue and the social issues are what motivates them the most.
If the economy is doing will in 2028 we will win.
Nobody has ever heard his name? You’re kidding, right?
How many people do you think are keeping up with politics in Chicago? You are a politico and I doubt you could name our ambassador to Japan without resorting to a search engine.
Very few people know who he is.
He was a very prominent member of the 0bama administration. Anyone paying attention to politics then remembers him. So you’re right, 95% of the electorate would draw a blank.
That is my point.
To 95% he is an unknown.
Rahm Godwithus running for President? Is this a joke?
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Also over the fact that he’s a Jooo, and a zionist, and once did a stint as a civilian volunteer with the IDF.
No chance Americans will elect a Jew as POTUS.
Last one to try was Bernie Sanders, and the party rejected him, and before him Barry Goldwater.
Goldwater had a Jewish dad and he was not considered a Jew by many but still, a Jew in many an eye.
This is not an antisemitic slur folks, its just the facts.
Ever wonder why Schumer never threw his hat in the ring?
That’s why.
Haha. Remember Joe Lieberman who the democrats attempted to push out of his senate seat in CT. He then ran as an independent and won.
More recently there is Josh Shapiro who heads-up harris rejected as her VP candidate in favor of Tim Rambo Waltz.
I agree. The opportunity for a democrat pro-Israel Jew has come and gone. The party now has a sizeable Hamas wing to its shame.
Compared to the LEFTIST FREAK SHOW that is the Dem candidate pool, he will appear reasonable. I give him zero chances in the Modern Left Wing party, unless they truly hit bottom between now and the primary, and admit their problem is POLICY not MESSAGING.
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