Editorial: Presidential race a layup for GOP in 2028

Stick a fork in Democrats they are done Former Vice President Kamala Harris is the Democratic presidential primary frontrunner according to a poll distributed this week the New York Post reports It gets worse Pete Buttigieg and California Gov Gavin Newsom come in next Sen Cory Booker D-NJ and fellow Tri-State agitator Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D-NY fill out the progressive field You might as well toss in Bay State Sen Elizabeth Warren because the lack of new thinking by the left is stunning The party remains paralyzed and this is the moment Vice President JD Vance and U S Secretary of State Marco Rubio have been waiting for Early forays into New Hampshire and Iowa by Democrats won t help this time around President Donald Trump has upended the electoral process and candidates who act instead of pontificate will appeal to voters for years to come David Hogg a gun control advocate who split with the DNC is onto this tired old act The Parkland school shooting survivor and Harvard grad is trying desperately to shake up the Democratic party This poll shows he s failing Hogg bombards inboxes with urgent appeals that he s tired of the same old excuses the same politicians cashing checks from the gun lobby or dragging their feet while our planet burns So Kamala Harris is the answer Hogg will soon come to the realization that the Democratic Party has lost the working-class vote They have ceded the ballot box to Republicans who come with ideas on deal illegal immigration jobs taxes the military and foreign affairs The Democrats can t run the cabinet and are stuck in a loop with a verbally awkward Kamala Harris a younger version of an out-of-touch Joe Biden The real race to watch in is Vance vs Rubio Both have time before they need to declare their candidacy but they are positioned to directly capture the attention of voters who are pleading for America to be proud again of who we are and what we stand for It s no secret why Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in He made promises that he s now grinding to keep Biden was weak and Harris didn t have a primary battle needed to sharpen her message Giving her a do-over is futile The GOP can run the table for the next eight years and David Hogg can t do anything to stop that Trump continues to show he s prepared every day for whatever the job brings Juxtapose that to wondering if Biden could even make it through a speech or any residents event without forgetting where he was Trump demonstrated guts and decisiveness by ordering the bombing of Iran s nuclear sites We doubt Biden would have even moved off the beach for that situation Trump not only watched out for the world s safety with that decision but he also pushed through his Big Beautiful Bill that pumps more money into ICE to fix the illegal immigrant flood that Biden ignored All this and more will be up for debate as rolls around The Democrats can try to pick apart Trump s every move and not every decision will be popular but it will all circle back to one foundational point The Biden-Harris administration was AWOL That s a form of regime that must never be repeated