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Andrew Yang Podcast

The End of Kingmakers: Why 2028 Will Redefine the Democratic Party

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K 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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I really do think the governor's coming in, whoever it is, Shapiro Polis, they can say,

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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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