Watch Out for Rahm

Newsom might think he has it in the bag, but I’m not so sure.

We’re bound to see a ton of established Dems start posturing themselves aggressively for a ‘28 run once the midterms are over. Hochul, Whitmer, and former spooks Slotkin and Spanberger. You’ve also got Booker, Moore, Buttigieg and Beshear on the dude side.

But I’d watch out for Rahm.

I’m not saying he’s going to run. He might. What I am saying is just that: Watch out for him.

Rahm Emanuel has been doing the rounds rather asymmetrically lately. He’s not on every hip podcast, but he does do some here and there, and when he does, he goes viral for saying the obvious.

“We lost the plot,” he said on “The Fifth Column” podcast this past week. “We as Democrats nationally – from Latinx, to defunding the police, to police organizations are all racist, to bringing a set of culture wars to our schools, we are on the losing side of those culture wars, full stop.