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Former Vice President Kamala Harris still leads polling for the Democrat presidential candidate in 2028.
According to Race to the White House, Harris has a 27.5% national polling average, followed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, with 22.7%.
In third place is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, with 9%, and in fourth place former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, with 8.7%.
Newsweek reports that an all-female ticket of Harris and Ocasio-Cortez has been “floated as likely contenders” for 2028.
However, “while Harris is leading early polling of the primary, Kalshi’s betting odds market favors Newsom.” Newsom has been given a 32% chance of victory by Kalshi, compared with 7% for Harris.
Harris has remained tight-lipped about her plans; although she has made a serious of high-profile appearances, including at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington DC, where she railed against the “extreme right wing” and said a dangerous “long-term agenda” was being “swiftly implemented today.”
She ended her speech with a call to arms and said the left must “fight fire with fire.”
On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez spoke on a panel at the Munich Security Conference and delivered what Newsweek described as a “populist” message, focusing on the iniquities of capitalism and the billionaire class in particular.
“In democracies, we have elected leaders, and in massive corporations that then begin to consume the public sector, gobble up this spending, they start to call the shots and we’re starting to see this with some of the billionaire class throwing their weight around in domestic politics and in global politics as well,” she said.
“It is of urgent priority that we get our economic houses in order and deliver material gains for the working class or else we will fall to a more isolated world, governed by authoritarians that also do not deliver to working people.”
