2028 Primaries Thread

[UNT Eagles 2016]

If Trump wins and Harris loses, both the Democrat and Republican primaries will be open.

If Harris wins and Trump loses, it's likely only the GOP primary will be open.


Trump win: (and don't give me the "trump will override the 22nd/end democracy" crap) Vance is clearly the GOP front-runner, and may not face a lot of serious opposition. For the Democrats, the clear front-runners are Shapiro and Whitmer, with Newsom potentially running but getting killed on his California record, and you might have a dark horse like Mark Kelly as well.

Harris win: Harris is almost certainly running unopposed for the Democrats. For the GOP, Vance's political career beyond being a long term senator for Ohio is pretty much cooked. Trump will be long out of politics and possibly in jail or out on a plea deal or in another country, who knows. I think, clearly DeSantis and Youngkin are the front-runners, though Youngkin might be the best candidate because of the combination of him not being the abortion hawk and him being tall and tall men candidates historically do very well especially with the female vote.

[ChumpDumper]

Trump will be the GOP candidate until he dies.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Trump will be the GOP candidate until he dies.

Fake news.

If he wins, SCOTUS will not help him overturn the 22nd Amendment without a 67% majority in both chambers, and even with GOP majorities in both chambers he'd be lucky to get 50% even in this polarized environment.

If he loses, he'll be a tired old bag by 2028, won't run, will be lucky to stay out of jail. As a two-time loser, his messaging will be too stale to even be compe ive in a primary.

[ChumpDumper]

Fake news.

If he wins, SCOTUS will not help him overturn the 22nd Amendment without a 67% majority in both chambers, and even with GOP majorities in both chambers he'd be lucky to get 50% even in this polarized environment.

If he loses, he'll be a tired old bag by 2028, won't run, will be lucky to stay out of jail. As a two-time loser, his messaging will be too stale to even be compe ive in a primary.

OK, sport.

[Ef-man]

Trump will be the GOP candidate until he dies.

Anyone else is a RINO (or more accurately, a TINO)

[benefactor]

If Trump loses and is still alive in 2028, he will hand pick the next nominee.

[Winehole23]

[z0sa]

Fake news.

If he wins, SCOTUS will not help him overturn the 22nd Amendment without a 67% majority in both chambers, and even with GOP majorities in both chambers he'd be lucky to get 50% even in this polarized environment.

If he loses, he'll be a tired old bag by 2028, won't run, will be lucky to stay out of jail. As a two-time loser, his messaging will be too stale to even be compe ive in a primary.

It's called 'presidential immunity', moron. Unless you think he won't use it because Fox News told you he wouldn't. Which he still said he'd be a dictator, to your face, even when asked if we had nothing to worry about by Hannity.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

If Trump loses and is still alive in 2028, he will hand pick the next nominee.

I mean that's much more likely than him running again but at some point there will be a primary and his endorsement might get outvoted by the opinion of the vast majority. Like when Trump tried to primary-out Kemp with the ex-senator in 2022, etc.