Editorial: Presidential race a layup for GOP in 2028

The Editorial Board, Boston Herald on Jul 17, 2025

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Stick a fork in Democrats, they are done!

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is the 2028 Democratic presidential primary frontrunner, according to a poll released this week, the New York Post reports.

It gets worse.

Pete Buttigieg and California Gov. Gavin Newsom come in next.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and fellow Tri-State agitator Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., fill out the progressive field.

You might as well toss in Bay State Sen. Elizabeth Warren because the lack of new thinking by the left is stunning. The party remains paralyzed and this is the moment Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been waiting for.

Early forays into New Hampshire and Iowa by Democrats won’t help this time around. President Donald Trump has upended the electoral process and candidates who act instead of pontificate will appeal to voters for years to come.

David Hogg, a gun control advocate who split with the DNC, is onto this tired old act. The Parkland school shooting survivor and Harvard grad is trying desperately to shake up the Democratic party. This poll shows he’s failing.

Hogg bombards inboxes with urgent appeals that he’s “tired of the same old excuses, the same politicians cashing checks from the gun lobby or dragging their feet while our planet burns.” So Kamala Harris is the answer?

Hogg will soon come to the realization that the Democratic Party has lost the working-class vote. They have ceded the ballot box to Republicans who come with ideas on trade, illegal immigration, jobs, taxes, the military, and foreign affairs.

The Democrats can’t run the government and are stuck in a loop with a verbally awkward Harris, a younger version of an out-of-touch former President Joe Biden.

The real race to watch in 2028 is Vance vs. Rubio. Both have time before they need to declare their candidacy, but they are positioned to immediately capture the attention of voters who are pleading for America to be proud again of who we are and what we stand for. It’s no secret why Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in 2024: He made promises that he’s now grinding to keep.

Biden was weak and Harris didn’t have a primary battle needed to sharpen her message. Giving her a do-over is futile.

The GOP can run the table for the next eight years and David Hogg can’t do anything to stop that.

Trump continues to show he’s prepared every day for whatever the job brings. Juxtapose that to wondering if Biden could even make it through a speech or any public event without forgetting where he was.

Trump showed guts and decisiveness by ordering the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites. We doubt Biden would have even moved off the beach for that crisis.

Trump not only watched out for the world’s safety with that decision, but he also pushed through his Big Beautiful Bill that pumps more money into ICE to fix the illegal immigrant flood that Biden ignored.

All this and more will be up for debate as 2028 rolls around. The Democrats can try to pick apart Trump’s every move, and not every decision will be popular, but it will all circle back to one foundational point: The Biden-Harris administration was AWOL.

That’s a form of government that must never be repeated.

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