Rahm Emanuel is confirming that he’s considering a run for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination.
Emanuel — the former Chicago mayor, White House chief of staff in former President Barack Obama’s administration, and former congressman from Illinois — told Crain’s Chicago Business that “I’m looking at the (Democratic) field, and most importantly, what I have to contribute.”
“I have been there,” Emanuel added in an interview on CNN. “I have something I think I can offer. But I haven’t made that decision.”
Emanuel, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan for the past four years during former President Joe Biden’s administration, noted that “if I said I wasn’t, it wouldn’t be true. If I said I have decided, that also wouldn’t be true.”
Emanuel, who served as a policy adviser in then-President Bill Clinton’s administration in the 1990s and later led the Democrats to a House majority in the 2006 election, has long been regarded as a potential candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028.
And, since returning from Japan at the end of the Biden administration, Emanuel has delivered blistering assessments of the Democratic Party in the aftermath of last November’s stunning setbacks, when the party lost control of the White House, the Senate, and failed to reclaim the House majority from the GOP.
One of the biggest names making headlines lately is former Biden Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
Buttigieg was recently in Washington to attend an event with Democratic content producers and make some media appearances, as talk mounts about a 2028 presidential run following Buttigieg’s revelation that he will not compete for the open Michigan Senate or gubernatorial seat.
