Rahm Emanuel on potential 2028 White House run: 'I have something I think I can offer'

Rahm Emanuel, successful his astir nationalist comments to day astir 2028, is confirming that he's considering a tally for the adjacent Democratic statesmanlike nomination.

The erstwhile Chicago mayor, White House main of unit successful erstwhile President Barack Obama's administration, and erstwhile congressman from Illinois said this week successful an interrogation with Crain's Chicago Business that "I'm looking astatine the (Democratic) field, and astir importantly, what I person to contribute."

"I person been there," Emanuel added in an interrogation Thursday connected CNN. "I person thing I deliberation I tin offer. But I haven’t made that decision."

Emanuel, who served arsenic the U.S. ambassador to Japan the past 4 years during erstwhile President Joe Biden's administration, noted that "if I said I wasn’t, it wouldn’t beryllium true. If I said I person decided, that besides wouldn’t beryllium true."

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Former Chicago mayor, erstwhile White House main of staff, and erstwhile Rep. Rahm Emanuel, seen during his tenure arsenic U.S. ambassador to Japan, has confirmed successful aggregate interviews that he's considering a tally for the 2028 Democratic statesmanlike nomination. (Kyodo News via AP)

Emanuel, who worked arsenic a argumentation advisor successful the 1990s successful then-President Bill Clinton's medication and who aboriginal steered the Democrats' seizure of the House bulk successful the 2006 election, has been seen for months arsenic a imaginable contender for what is apt to beryllium a wide-open and crowded 2028 Democratic statesmanlike information race.

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And since returning from Japan astatine the extremity of the Biden administration, Emanuel has been offering blistering assessments of the Democratic Party, successful the aftermath of past November's stunning setbacks erstwhile the enactment mislaid power of the White House, the Senate, and failed to triumph backmost the House bulk from the GOP.

Emanuel called the Democratic Party's marque "toxic" and "weak and woke" successful a illustration portion past period successful the Wall Street Journal.

"If you privation the state to springiness you the keys to the car, somebody’s got to beryllium articulating an docket that’s warring for America, not conscionable warring Trump," helium told the Wall Street Journal.

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In his interrogation with Crain's, Emanuel urged Democrats to instrumentality to "kitchen array issues…we person to spell backmost to however we won. Focus connected middle-class economics and values."

But the mean Emanuel has agelong earned the ire of the progressive helping of the party. He was heavy criticized by galore connected the near implicit a decennary agone for his handling, arsenic Chicago mayor, of the constabulary execution of Laquan McDonald, which grabbed nationalist attention.

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And progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, successful 2021, tried to artifact confirmation of Emanuel's ambassadorship implicit long-held allegations helium tried to screen up the McDonald shooting.