# Frontrunners for Democratic presidential nomination in 2028

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AOC has been brought up, although I’m not sure if she’s planning a run in 2028. If she is, she’d better brush up on her foreign policy first; she was in Munich to show off her foreign policy chops, but it was a bit of a fumble, with her flubbing a question about Taiwan:

[https://www.wsj.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-taiwan-china-munich-security-conference-4c907430?gaa\_at=eafs&gaa\_n=AWEtsqf28ntH51Vc0y5Fl6tW2vAQjBWPeUPejY8TnM0rTLRA4oF2Ue6fSPsIvAq3ISk%3D&gaa\_ts=6993d590&gaa\_sig=SofZiC6sEvknm2ctQRj3XSvXgXXk-9rjORnqUusBgCPCWwLE7aPBxlXHUYl8n-\_01poInEiu-fs4TzVIAjTDlg%3D%3D](https://www.wsj.com/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-taiwan-china-munich-security-conference-4c907430?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqf28ntH51Vc0y5Fl6tW2vAQjBWPeUPejY8TnM0rTLRA4oF2Ue6fSPsIvAq3ISk%3D&gaa_ts=6993d590&gaa_sig=SofZiC6sEvknm2ctQRj3XSvXgXXk-9rjORnqUusBgCPCWwLE7aPBxlXHUYl8n-_01poInEiu-fs4TzVIAjTDlg%3D%3D)

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