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 PresidentRahm 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:
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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