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cnn.comRaphael Warnock has a message for Democrats — and a plan to be heard in 2028 | CNN PoliticsAs a boy, Raphael Warnock started offering a prayer: that God would guide his feet, order his steps and direct his path. Maybe, he says, it grew out of the verses in Proverbs that say pretty much the ...

“God is not a Democrat. And contrary to what people seem to think, God is not a Republican,” Warnock said. "I think God’s on the side of seniors who are having to decide whether they’re going to buy groceries or buy medicine.” www.cnn.com/2026/10/11/p...

cnn.comRaphael Warnock has a message for Democrats — and a plan to be heard in 2028 | CNN PoliticsAs a boy, Raphael Warnock started offering a prayer: that God would guide his feet, order his steps and direct his path. Maybe, he says, it grew out of the verses in Proverbs that say pretty much the ...

NEW from me - in New Hampshire, asked about running for president, Raphael Warnock told me the prayer he’s been saying since he was a boy for God to direct his path: “My prayer is that I can be used to do the most good with the gifts that I have.” www.cnn.com/2026/10/11/p...

cnn.com‘A Latino problem’: National Democrats clash with Andy Beshear over Texas governor’s race | CNN PoliticsKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear hoped being chair of the Democratic Governors Association this midterms year would raise his profile and connections ahead of his expected 2028 run for president. But it’s a...

NEW from me - Andy Beshear hoped being chair of the Dem Govs Assoc this midterms year would raise his profile and connections ahead of his expected 2028 run. But it’s also created an opening for Latino leaders to ramp up pressure on him over Texas: www.cnn.com/2026/10/09/p...

cnn.comAbdul El-Sayed is certain he’ll win Michigan’s Senate race. Some key Democrats quietly aren’t so sure | CNN PoliticsAbdul El-Sayed predicts that he will win the Michigan Senate race by 7 points.

NEW from me, on the ground in Michigan, where El-Sayed is getting a celebrity reception from crowds but frustration from some key leaders who feel dismissed, calling Hasan Piker to get him to quiet down, and predicting a 7 point win: www.cnn.com/2026/10/07/p...

cnn.comExclusive: Barack Obama’s hidden hand shaping Democrats’ AI debate | CNN PoliticsThe former president is pushing 2028 Democratic hopefuls to develop specific plans for how to tackle AI — but some of them are wary of antagonizing the industry.

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NEW from me - Obama is pushing the prospective 2028 Democratic presidential candidates to do more on AI -- and he's not the only one. But worries about being hit by campaign spending and the changing politics have most staying pretty quiet and undefined www.cnn.com/2026/09/30/p...

cnn.comObama ‘not surprised’ by Trump’s media ban, calls issue of press freedom ‘foundational’ | CNN PoliticsBarack Obama said he’s “not surprised” by President Donald Trump’s decision to ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, arguing that the issue should not be “partisan.”

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NEW from me: Obama on Trump’s press ban — www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p... “You do not have, as far as I can tell, any substantial group of Republicans who are standing up and saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, because we don’t want, if there’s a Democratic president, to be banning Fox News”

cnn.comLatino voters, data centers and Republican problems are giving Texas Democrats their highest hopes in 20 years | CNN PoliticsThe GOP has controlled all statewide offices in Texas for almost two decades. But a mix of economic factors, the national backlash to immigration raids and the growth of artificial intelligence, and t...

20 Sept

NEW from me - The Rio Grande Valley was all Trump country in 2024, largely on the strength of Latino support. Is a perfect storm brewing to make Democrats' first effort toward a real coordinated ticket in Texas help them win there and across the state? www.cnn.com/2026/09/20/p...

cnn.comKamala Harris is sticking to her own timeline on a 2028 decision | CNN PoliticsKamala Harris knows other potential 2028 Democratic candidates are waiting on her decision about running for president again. She’s going to keep them waiting.

17 Sept

NEW from me: So what’s Kamala Harris thinking about 2028, as Newsom and others try to stake out plans around her? “She is not going to rush her deliberation to fit anyone else’s schedule.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/17/p...

cnn.comFed-up Pennsylvania Democrats plot to run for Fetterman’s seat in 2028 | CNN PoliticsJohn Fetterman’s recorded speech to the Republican midterm convention on Wednesday was the last straw for many top Pennsylvania Democrats: They don’t want the senator anywhere around for the final wee...

14 Sept

Josh Shapiro, Austin Davis, lots of state leg candidates and four Democrats looking to flip House seats are all campaigning hard to win in Pennsylvania in November. Many say they haven’t heard from John Fetterman—and wouldn’t want his help if they did. www.cnn.com/2026/09/13/p...

cnn.comFed-up Pennsylvania Democrats plot to run for Fetterman’s seat in 2028 | CNN PoliticsJohn Fetterman’s recorded speech to the Republican midterm convention on Wednesday was the last straw for many top Pennsylvania Democrats: They don’t want the senator anywhere around for the final wee...

13 Sept

NEW from me: while Schumer and DC Democrats keep up their careful dance around Fetterman, fed-up Democrats back home in Pennsylvania say they're coming for his seat: www.cnn.com/2026/09/13/p...

cnn.comKamala Harris to campaign with Sen. Jon Ossoff as part of midterm campaign swing | CNN PoliticsKamala Harris will keynote a Fulton County Democrats dinner and stump with Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff at the end of October, capping off a spate of appearances on the trail for a select group of candidat...

10 Sept

NEW from me - as Kamala Harris puts together a spate of midterm campaign appearances, she’s already set her final weekend in October: keynoting the Fulton County Democrats dinner and stumping with Jon Ossoff in Georgia: www.cnn.com/2026/09/10/p...

7 Sept

Sitting back stage after an event in Aiken, South Carolina, Newsom told me when I asked if his trip last week was about running for president, “Obviously, it’s an early calendar state, but, you know, my state of mind was here before.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/07/p...

cnn.comGavin Newsom will leave office in January. In South Carolina, he previews what could come next | CNN PoliticsBetween events in South Carolina, now fully enshrined as Democrats’ first presidential primary state, Gavin Newsom acknowledged last week’s trip was indeed part of feeling out a 2028 campaign.

7 Sept

NEW from me - With an eye on testing his appeal to Black voters that would be crucial for the first presidential primary, Gavin Newsom went to South Carolina last week. Here's what they thought of him: www.cnn.com/2026/09/07/p...

31 Aug

NEW from me, in Massachusetts - as Markey and Moulton face off tomorrow, the candidates and the voters struggle to make sense of where they fit into the great intraparty debate this has been made out to be, and even what the word “progressive” means www.cnn.com/2026/08/31/p...

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cnn.comKamala Harris jabs at Joe Biden’s old faith in a post-Trump ‘epiphany’ for Republicans | CNN PoliticsKamala Harris thinks Joe Biden had too much faith in Republicans, and she’s jabbing at him for it.

7 Aug

NEW from me: Biden in 2019: You will see an epiphany occur among many of my Republican friends” once he beat Donald Trump. Harris to say in a speech tonight: “We cannot sit around hoping Republicans will have an ‘epiphany’ and do the right thing” www.cnn.com/2026/08/07/p...

cnn.com‘We have 13 weeks’: A ruptured Democratic Party now tries to unite behind Abdul El-Sayed | CNN PoliticsAbdul El-Sayed’s plan as he left his last polling place stop on Tuesday afternoon was to take the stage at the Majestic Theater on Woodward Avenue as early as 10 p.m. to deliver a speech he knew had t...

5 Aug

Here’s that moment with El-Sayed:

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Sunday, El-Sayed said on a livestream he owns 12 black Ts but “I need one more that just says, ‘Most dangerous candidate for the US-Israel relationship.’ I’ll wear it every day.” Today, AIPAC announced more after failing to beat him w/$60M: www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/p...

cnn.com‘We have 13 weeks’: A ruptured Democratic Party now tries to unite behind Abdul El-Sayed | CNN PoliticsAbdul El-Sayed’s plan as he left his last polling place stop on Tuesday afternoon was to take the stage at the Majestic Theater on Woodward Avenue as early as 10 p.m. to deliver a speech he knew had t...

5 Aug

Sunday, El-Sayed said on a livestream he owns 12 black Ts but “I need one more that just says, ‘Most dangerous candidate for the US-Israel relationship.’ I’ll wear it every day.” Today, AIPAC announced more after failing to beat him w/$60M: www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/p...

cnn.com‘We have 13 weeks’: A ruptured Democratic Party now tries to unite behind Abdul El-Sayed | CNN PoliticsAbdul El-Sayed’s plan as he left his last polling place stop on Tuesday afternoon was to take the stage at the Majestic Theater on Woodward Avenue as early as 10 p.m. to deliver a speech he knew had t...

5 Aug

NEW from me - Michigan Dems try to move past the Senate primary, unsure they can: "while I understand that there’s rawness after a primary, I believe that they know and they will know what’s actually at stake for the country" www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/p...

3 Aug

on the sidelines of the DSA summit was a gathering envisioned as the start of Ocasio-Cortez 2028. But they want her signed on to their program. “Beyond just the question of yes or no, do we endorse AOC…how do we use it to keep building our own organization?” www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

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cnn.com‘The Democratic Party is asleep at the wheel’: Democratic socialists are strategizing for their biggest moment yet | CNN PoliticsDSA has taken a strategic approach to grow its power within the Democratic Party, picking off two House incumbents already this year and potentially a third on Tuesday in Michigan. As the group’s summ...

3 Aug

NEW from me: What happened as the Democratic Socialists of America spent a rainy weekend in Chicago preparing their next steps for taking over the Democratic Party, taking down capitalism and longterm moves like abolishing the presidency: www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

cnn.comThe fight for Michigan: How a marquee Senate primary became the Democrats’ latest proxy war | CNN PoliticsTuesday’s Michigan Senate primary between Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed has become a bitter referendum on many of the fights Democrats are having nationally.

3 Aug

When Schumer called Gary Peters in his office to talk about stopping El-Sayed. Peters & Warren expressing doubts and then going different ways. Stevens' stumbles. What Slotkin's neutrality has drummed up. Sanders' advice to El-Sayed. All here: www.cnn.com/2026/08/02/p...

cnn.comKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s message to Sen. Mitch McConnell: Disclose more about health or resign | CNN PoliticsKentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has a message for Sen. Mitch McConnell, his state’s senior senator: Explain his long absence from the Senate and give details about his health, Beshear is insisting, or resi...

28 July

NEW from me: Andy Beshear wrote a to McConnell demanding answers: “I am addressing this letter to Sen. McConnell under the assumption that he is capable of reading and responding verbally, and not incapacitated by means of consciousness or cognition” www.cnn.com/2026/07/27/p...

cnn.comAs Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism | CNN PoliticsFor many liberals, longtime policy priorities like universal healthcare or stopping climate change are now intertwined with opposing Israel. An ascendant faction of the left argues there’s no such thi...

10 July

I wrote this week about Jewish progressives who see the anti-Israel political conversation tipping into straight antisemitism: Some responses to the Platner situation and who’s really to blame are ringing the same alarms for many of those feeling it— www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/p...

cnn.comAs Israel becomes Democratic litmus test, Jewish progressives warn about a tilt into antisemitism | CNN PoliticsFor many liberals, longtime policy priorities like universal healthcare or stopping climate change are now intertwined with opposing Israel. An ascendant faction of the left argues there’s no such thi...

7 July

NEW: Jewish progressives warn about American antisemitism under the guise of criticism of Israel “I don’t see this as a right or left issue. I see this as the unmasking of American antisemitism under the guise of criticism of Israel,” said Michigan state Rep. Noah Arbit www.cnn.com/2026/07/07/p...

nypost.comHunter Biden-style sleaze is just as slimy when the Trump boys do itIt was bad when the Bidens did it, and it’s just as bad when the Trumps do it.

30 June

New York Post editorializes against the Trump sons’ financial involvement in a mine in Kazakhstan - nypost.com/2026/06/29/o... Read more on how Jon Ossoff came to include that example in his anti-corruption speeches in my story from this morning: www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...

cnn.comSen. Jon Ossoff almost didn’t run for reelection. Now some Democrats want to draft him for 2028 | CNN PoliticsOutside the frame of the viral clips – shot by two cameras carefully positioned on either side of the stage – were over a thousand people, hot under the tin roof of a converted ironworks on Saturday a...

29 June

Ossoff: “I think we should judge these prospective presidential candidates by how much they’re doing to help us win battleground states and front-line congressional races to restore checks and balances." www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...

29 June

NEW from me - I spent time behind the scenes with Jon Ossoff, the Democrats’ sudden 2026 viral hit, talking about why he thinks his approach is working in Georgia, how having young kids changed his view of older senators, his favorite movie - and yes, 2028 www.cnn.com/2026/06/29/p...

cnn.comGavin Newsom opposes a California wealth tax. He’s proposing a national billionaire tax instead | CNN PoliticsCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed a national tax on billionaires that he says is the first part of an “economic reset for America” agenda, which aides explicitly say is part of his consi...

26 June

NEW - Gavin Newsom, in what aides explicitly say is part of considering a 2028 run, is proposing a national billionaires tax: www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/p...

cnn.comSome of Mamdani’s far-left allies want to primary Hakeem Jeffries and other NYC Democrats | CNN PoliticsDemocratic socialists in New York City emboldened by Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral primary win are warning that they may go after five House incumbents next — and Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader at th...

24 June

A lot of New York politicians dismissed the talk of Mamdani/DSA challenges when this story ran a year ago, after his primary win: www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/p...

cnn.comThe new power broker: How Zohran Mamdani muscled NYC’s Democratic establishment | CNN PoliticsNew York politics and the Democratic Party have a new power broker after Zohran Mamdani’s picks swept three US House primaries. Hakeem Jeffries, the Brooklyn-based House Democratic leader, is losing t...

24 June

NEW from me: Many NYC politicos who tried to be Mamdani allies are unhappy. Early endorser Rep. Nydia Velázquez wouldn't answer when asked if she regretted her support. The new powerbroker's take: This is what a revolution looks like - on his terms. www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/p...

cnn.comWhat is there to teach a Kennedy about politics? As Jack Schlossberg has found out, a lot | CNN PoliticsIf multiple polls and the wariness of friends who have been helping him are proven right, Jack Schlossberg is facing not just potential rejection in Tuesday’s primary but the prospect of letting down ...

22 June

NEW from me: What is there to teach a Kennedy about politics? According to Jack Schlossberg, as his name will appear on the ballot in Tuesday’s Democratic primary: Somehow, pretty much everything. A look at the closing days of his NY primary run: www.cnn.com/2026/06/22/p...

cnn.comBarack Obama confronts the work that remains for Democrats — and for him | CNN PoliticsFormer President Barack Obama on Thursday is getting what he wanted for so long: his words carved into stone, a monument to his presidency entering the Chicago skyline.

18 June

Obama in Chicago last night on the eve of his library opening, talking about why he doesn’t like “nostalgia”: “It lets us off the hook, bc it makes us feel like, ‘Well, you know, that was wonderful, but now, this is the reality, and there’s not much we can do about it.’” www.cnn.com/2026/06/18/p...

cnn.comThe road test: Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s strategy ahead of a potential 2028 campaign | CNN PoliticsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez is truly undecided about what she’ll do in 2028, when she can run for president or for the seat held by Sen. Chuck Schumer. But Ocasio-Cortez is positioning herself to try to ...

11 June

not interested in being a protest candidate or backing any, @aoc has been drilling into data & where she resonates. Her win record is big (incl: Rabb, Forstag, Villegas), but who she hasn't backed is also a choice (incl: Platner, Steyer, Chakrabarti): www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/p...

cnn.comThe road test: Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s strategy ahead of a potential 2028 campaign | CNN PoliticsAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez is truly undecided about what she’ll do in 2028, when she can run for president or for the seat held by Sen. Chuck Schumer. But Ocasio-Cortez is positioning herself to try to ...

11 June

NEW from me: expect to see a lot of more @AOC campaigning this fall, as she road tests her appeal and her appetite for her 2028 options. With details about what she’s been doing in figuring out endorsements, building bridges back in DC… and knitting: www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/p...

1 June

NEW from me: after his (yet again uncontested) primary win, I talked with Josh Shapiro on what how he says Pennsylvania proves a lot of the posters and pundits wrong when it comes to calling him too centrist, too buttoned up and too Zionist www.cnn.com/2026/06/01/p...

21 May

just some of the people who were not spoken to for the DNC's autopsy of the 2024 election include... (also on this list, top campaign aides like Quentin Fulks, Michael Tyler, Ian Sams and Liz Allen, or Biden aides Annie Tomasini and Anthony Bernal). www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/p...

cnn.comAutopsy of the autopsy: How the DNC’s 2024 post-mortem turned into a crisis | CNN PoliticsCNN is publishing in full a copy of the DNC’s 2024 autopsy, along with never-before-reported details of what went wrong in compiling it. The autopsy continues to hang over the Democratic Party a year ...

21 May

You wanted to see the long hidden DNC autopsy report of the 2024 election loss. Here it is, and the convoluted never reported story of how it became an existential crisis of Ken Martin. The autopsy of the autopsy: www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/p...

cnn.comDemocrats’ internal fights sway the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco | CNN PoliticsWith just weeks to go in the first round of the race to replace Nancy Pelosi in her San Francisco-based district, an iconic center of liberalism is trying to figure out what comes next. As the Democra...

11 May

NEW from me, from San Francisco: the Democratic infighting microcosm in the race to succeed Pelosi… with news on how Wiener is trying to hold strong, what actually went down with Chakrabati and AOC, and how Pelosi’s nudging toward Chan (+a Chonkers cameo) www.cnn.com/2026/05/11/p...

cnn.com‘People are not passive’: Newsom and top California Democrats move behind the scenes in governor’s race | CNN PoliticsCalifornia Democratic leaders have shifted their strategy to prevent their party from being locked out of the governor’s race: Instead of thinking about consolidating the field, they have turned to be...

8 May

NEW from me: with fears of being locked out of the top 2 spots in the governor’s race lessened but still looming, CA Democrats are going with a behind the scenes strategy rather than trying to endorse a favorite — “people are not passive,” Newsom tells me: www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/p...

29 Apr

Attending the state dinner tonight for King Charles III: Supreme Court Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett (and their spouses). Not attending: Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor, Kagan or Jackson.

cnn.comWhy Democrats with 2028 hopes are calling Lina Khan – and what she’s telling them about remaking the economy | CNN PoliticsLina Khan is getting constant calls from Democrats, many of them thinking about presidential runs, to sound out problems and workshop potential solutions. That’s a shift from when she was Federal Trad...

20 Apr

Warren, Bannon, Buttigieg and — at least as of a few years ago — Vance have agreed on this: A short, ultra-private antitrust lawyer plotting a war on tech companies & monopolies understands what Americans are demanding out of their government: www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/p...

cnn.comWhy Democrats with 2028 hopes are calling Lina Khan – and what she’s telling them about remaking the economy | CNN PoliticsLina Khan is getting constant calls from Democrats, many of them thinking about presidential runs, to sound out problems and workshop potential solutions. That’s a shift from when she was Federal Trad...

20 Apr

NEW from me: Lina Khan's phone has been ringing w/prospective 2028 Dems, as she pushes for an even more aggressive anti-trust stance, adding tools from Trump. @ewarren: “If you’re a leader who wants to deliver on affordability, it’s a smart move to call" www.cnn.com/2026/04/20/p...

20 Apr

A little video of Mitch Landrieu joining in some tap dancing on the street in New Orleans, as we talked last week about his potential interest in running for president: www.cnn.com/2026/04/19/p...

19 Apr

NEW - I walked New Orleans w/its former mayor Mitch Landrieu, who sketched out why he’s thinking about a 2028 run — seeing America like the city after Katrina when they rebuilt it to “the city it should have been if we had gotten it right the first time.” www.cnn.com/2026/04/19/p...

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19 Apr

Coming in the morning: my conversation with a surprise Democrat looking at a 2028 presidential run … will be up on www.cnn.com/politics

cnn.comGavin Newsom faces growing pressure to intervene in a scrambled California governor’s race | CNN PoliticsThe scrambled race for California governor left in the wake of Eric Swalwell’s sexual misconduct allegations isn’t officially Gov. Gavin Newsom’s mess. But it’s one that many top Democrats want him to...

15 Apr

NEW from me - Until Friday, the Democratic race that Gavin Newsom was focused on was not the one for the job he’s term limited out of. How he's approaching the mess of the CA governor's race left in Eric Swalwell's wake: www.cnn.com/2026/04/15/p...

30 Mar

ICYMI from the weekend: my story on retired Marine & Iraq vet Ruben Gallego’s push against the Iran war and funding for it. If Republicans say that isn’t supporting the troops? “They say that, and then more & more of our troops die over & over again.” www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/p...

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cnn.comWith an Iran funding vote looming, Ruben Gallego urges Democrats to rethink how to support the troops | CNN PoliticsThe veteran who arrived a few minutes late to the matcha shop down the street from Fort Sam Houston hovered behind Ruben Gallego, trying to figure out where to sit.

29 Mar

When Lindsey Graham said of invading Kharg Island, “We did Iwo Jima, we can do this — my money’s always on the Marines” — …what Ruben Gallego told me he wanted to post was, “Only an Air Force JAG officer would actually believe that.” www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/p...