The End of Kingmakers: Why 2028 Will Redefine the Democratic Party
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Political commentator Ross Barkan joins Andrew Yang at the Hudson Valley Ideas Festival to discuss the wide-open 2028 Democratic primary, the fall of party kingmakers like Obama, and the rise of a new generation of governors. They explore outsider candidates, media strategy, and Barkan’s own political run—including his early work with now-mayoral contender Zohran Mamdani.
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| 1:04.6 | I really do think the governor's coming in, whoever it is, Shapiro Polis, they can say, |
| 1:10.0 | listen, I'm going to manage the country |
| 1:12.5 | again. You got chaos. You did eight years of Trump now, ready for something else. There are no |
| 1:19.0 | institutional power brokers who can really decide the direction of this primary. Obama can't do it. |
| 1:27.2 | The clitons are history now. |
| 1:29.3 | The boring answer I have is that it's anyone's ballgame. |
| 1:38.3 | Our next speaker is someone who's writing, you probably have seen maybe without even knowing it. |
| 1:47.0 | So Ross Barkhan is a prolific writer for New York Times, New York Magazine, where he's a columnist. |
| 1:54.0 | He's a contributing writer at the New York Times. |
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