Pelosi still playing kingmaker, floats familiar name as potential 2028 Dem savior

Former Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw out a familiar name who could arise as a 2028 candidate as her party struggles to emerge from the wreckage of the Biden-Harris era.

The self-proclaimed speaker emerita said that former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel could enter the race, potentially stepping forward as the party’s savior from a thoroughly grotesque crop of early White House hopefuls.

Pelosi touted a possible Emanuel run in comments to the Free Press for its piece titled “President Rahm Emanuel? He Thinks So,” which was published on Friday.

“When I asked former Democratic speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has known Emanuel since his days in the Clinton White House, whether he would run in 2028, she replied, ‘I think so.’” https://t.co/kroj9NmUMq

— Matthew Kassel (@matthewkassel) May 23, 2025

“I think he’s going to run,” the 84-year-old Democrat predicted.

Emanuel is playing his cards close to the vest as to whether he will run but didn’t rule it out when asked about Pelosi’s remarks by CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Friday.

Anderson Cooper asks Rahm Emanuel if he will run for President.

Cooper: “Nancy Pelosi made headlines today with her saying that she thinks you’re running for president. Are you?”

Emanuel: “What I’m going to do is take time to think about not just how to fight Donald Trump,… pic.twitter.com/DDGKKMfrnZ

— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) May 24, 2025

“We can’t get distracted by the cultural issues and lose sight of what Americans care about and what impacts them, which is a shot at the American dream,” the former mayor and chief of staff to President Barack Obama is quoted by the Free Press.

Last year’s election debacle hasn’t done a thing to deter Democrats from doubling down on the far-left ideology that resulted in a decisive rejection by voters who returned President Donald J. Trump to the White House.

Even though Trump swept every single swing state and won the popular vote, Democrats have since dug in to defend criminal illegal aliens from deportation and elevated the most strident progressives like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) as their new leaders.

People can say what they will about Emanuel but he did a fairly competent job of running the Windy City, unlike the two incompetent left-wing buffoons who succeeded him.

Neither Lori Lightfoot nor Brandon Johnson had any actual qualifications for the job of running one of America’s biggest metropolises other than an abundance of melanin, which unfortunately seemed to be the deciding factor for a majority of voters in the Democrat stronghold. Sadly, it seems race remains a major focus of today’s DEI-obsessed Democrats when it comes to getting behind candidates.

In addition to his skin color, Emanuel has one other thing going against him. He’s Jewish, and that would be a very big problem with the party’s base, much of which is rabidly antisemitic and has sided with the Hamas terror organization against Israel. It was a deal killer for Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who could have helped Democrats win the critical battleground state but never got the chance.

“I do believe the country and the Democratic Party can and will—could nominate, rather—a Jewish candidate,” Emanuel told the Free Press, optimistic that the party could stand up to the Jew-hating progressive base.

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Chris Donaldson is an ordinary American who is concerned about rampant corruption as well as the ongoing attacks on our way of life by those who have contempt for our hard-earned freedoms. A Navy veteran, he has been a frequent contributor to conservative websites and resides in Florida.

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