4 Potential 2028 Presidential Contenders Stand Out In New Poll

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None have formally launched a campaign and the parties’ 2028 nominating contests are more than a year away, leaving plenty of time for it to change.

WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Four potential contenders in the 2028 race for the White House have caught American voters’ attention with their early jockeying: Republicans JD Vance and Marco Rubio and Democrats Jon Ossoff and Pete Buttigieg, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.

None of the four has yet formally launched a campaign and the parties’ 2028 nominating contests are more than a year away, leaving plenty of time for new contenders to emerge and for voters’ views to change.

Some 45% of Republican voters polled said they believed Secretary of State Rubio would be an “excellent” presidential candidate, with 43% saying the same of Vice President Vance. Former Transportation Secretary Buttigieg and US Senator Ossoff, of Georgia, each got that rating from 29% of Democratic voters.

The poll, which surveyed 1,705 US adults nationwide including roughly 500 registered voters from each party and was completed on Monday, had a margin of error of 5 percentage points for Republican and Democratic voters.

President Donald Trump, struggling with an approval rating near the lowest of his career, looms large over the conversation for both parties. Republicans are divided on whether they want a candidate who breaks with Trump or follows in his footsteps, while Democrats, who are flying high after routing Republicans in the November 3 congressional elections, are divided on how aggressively to go after the president, such as through impeachment.

Trump has quizzed allies on whom they prefer Vance or Rubio and in a Sunday interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” said he would “not necessarily” make an endorsement in the Republican primary.

Barbara Rezner, an attorney in Florida who voted for Trump in the last three presidential elections, said she prefers Rubio over Vance, whom she considers too far to the right and too close to the president.

“Rubio has managed to do his job. He’s stayed off most people’s radar because he hasn’t done anything too far left, too far right, too crazy,”…

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