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The Race To 2028 Has Begun

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What A Day

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4.6 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Presidential hopefuls have already started jockeying for position in the 2028 race — look at the number of Democrats who published memoirs over the last year. But a lot can happen in two years. And across the aisle on the Republican side, there's a big orange obstacle: Donald Trump, the unpopular president who somehow still has a stranglehold on GOP primary voters. To talk more about the race for the White House, we spoke with MS NOW's Chris Hayes. He's the host of "All In with Chris Hayes" and the podcast "Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast."

And in headlines, the Trump administration wishes the Pope would keep his mouth shut when it comes to issues of humanity, Grok almost faces consequences for its sexual AI images, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune wants to put the Department of Homeland Security legislation on a diet!

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0:00.0

It's Thursday, April 16th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day.

0:07.6

The show that already hated Santa Con.

0:10.0

You know, that yearly tradition where the drunkest people you have ever met do a bar crawl dressed like Santa purportedly for charity.

0:16.9

But it turns out the founder of Santa Con allegedly stole at least $1.5 million of what the event raised over the last five years.

0:25.2

My hatred has been confirmed.

0:30.6

On today's show, the Trump administration wishes the Pope would keep his mouth shut when it comes to issues of humanity.

0:38.1

And Senate Majority Leader John Thune wants to put Department of Homeland Security legislation on a diet.

0:43.5

But let's start with a 28 presidential election.

0:46.6

Actually, I want to go back in time a little bit to 2006.

0:50.7

It was a simpler age.

0:52.0

Twitter had just launched.

0:53.7

I was about to start my sophomore year of college, and George W. Bush was a very unpopular president.

0:59.4

The 2008 presidential election was still two years away, but just like now, reporters and pundits were starting to talk about potential Democratic frontrunners.

1:07.4

According to a July 2006 Marist poll, the frontrunners were then New York Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, and disgraced former North Carolina Senator John Edwards.

1:20.4

In fact, in 2007, Clinton was treated by pundits as the near-certain Democratic nominee for president.

1:26.4

Here's a compilation created by CNN. If you looked at Hillary Clinton in the last debate, she was very strong there. She's definitely distancing herself from the other two candidates. And I would say that door's almost close. It's almost inevitable now that Hillary Clinton will be the nominee. She's gaining momentum. So I'd have to say at this, at this point, Hillary's, you know, she's got it in the back. Not on that list, an Illinois senator named Barack Obama.

1:48.0

Here he is on election night, 2008, accepting a pretty exciting new job.

1:52.0

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible.

2:02.7

Who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time.

2:09.5

Who still questions the power of our democracy.

2:14.0

Tonight is your answer.

2:18.2

Ah, sweet memories.

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