Despite losing the 2024 Electoral College and popular vote to President-elect Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris ranked the highest among potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates in a Nov. 20 survey.
The poll released by Puck News/Echelon Insights found that a plurality of Democratic respondents—41 percent—say they would vote to nominate Harris as the party’s standard bearer in the 2028 presidential election. The two hypothetical candidates that came in second and third place, respectively, were California Gov. Gavin Newsom at 8 percent and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro at 7 percent. Shapiro was a top contender as Harris’s running mate before she chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in early August….