Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi believes she knows who one of the candidates for president in 2028 will be, and it was not a name at the top of many lists.
The 85-year-old Democrat representative believes that former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel will campaign for the Democratic nomination.
“I think he’s going to run,” she said in an interview with “The Free Press” published Friday.
In the same story, when Emanuel was asked how he was doing, he quipped, “I don’t have prostate cancer.”
It came after his brother, Zeke, said on MSNBC that he believes former President Joe Biden had cancer during his tenure in the White House.
“Oh yeah. He did not develop [prostate cancer] in the last 100 days, 200 days. He had it while he was president. He probably had it at the start of his presidency in 2021. Yes, I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that,” the former Chicago Mayor’s brother said.
When the former mayor spoke to The Free Press, he positioned himself as an old-school Democrat, not concerned with “woke” issues that have plagued his party as its approval rating has hit record lows.
“We can’t get distracted by the cultural issues and lose sight of what Americans care about and what impacts them, which is a shot at the American dream,” Emanuel said.
“We have to be able to stand up to the interest groups. We can’t look weak and woke,” he said.
He did not directly answer the reporter’s question about campaigning for president, saying, “Before I make a decision, I want to know that I have an answer to what I think ails our country, ails our politics, and ails the party—and they may all be the same answer.”
But he gave a pretty big hint to the reporter, Peter Savodnik, when he said, “I know what I want to do … We’ve got to get ready to fight for America—and that’s what I’m going to do.”