# Frontrunners for Democratic presidential nomination in 2028 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 16, 2025, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028/1013036 "2025-01-16T06:50:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 369
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028/1013036/369 "2025-03-21T20:57:45Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > Except it (being Trump’s bad health, mental and physical) has not had the _political_ effect that you have claimed - over and over and over again - that it will have. > [@Aeschines](#): > > I don’t agree. I’ll just link to this post from a previous thread and let others judge for themselves: [How can Donald Trump win at this point? - #1314 by ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-donald-trump-win-at-this-point/1005351/1314) Moving this conversation closer to the topic of the thread, I think Democratic candidates and party leaders should definitely NOT be assuming that Trump will be a spent force in 2028, even if he himself is in ill heath. And if he is dead by then, it will just be be Vance/Trump Jr. attempting to carry the banner of Trumpism. They (Trump/MAGA) have created the all-time winner of grifts worth BILLIONS, and you can try to pry it from their cold, dead hands. Thinking that Trump is damaged and therefore less dangerous is … let’s say, not a good strategy. > [@Aeschines](#): > > You need merely open your eyes. Physician, heal thyself. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frontrunners-for-democratic-presidential-nomination-in-2028/1013036)._