Alyssa Farah Griffin said on Friday that Kamala Harris is the most likely person to become the Democratic nominee in the 2028 presidential election cycle, putting the former vice president at the center of an early test of party thinking. The comment came during a lively discussion on The View about who could lead the next Democratic ticket.
Farah Griffin said polls have Harris ahead of other possible candidates and added that it is usually Harris and Gavin Newsom in the polling she has seen. She argued that, given Harris’ money-raising ability and name recognition, she did not think the party would bypass her for a generic white man. That was the hook for viewers searching the conversation now: the panel was not talking about a distant future race in the abstract, but about who already looks strongest in the early 2028 field.
The exchange quickly widened beyond Harris. Joy Behar said she liked Harris but pointed out that she had not won before, then asked why that would change now. Behar floated Jon Ossoff, Josh Shapiro and J.B. Pritzker as other possibilities, while Sara Haines raised Pete Buttigieg and Wes Moore. When the conversation turned to Buttigieg, Behar asked whether people would vote for a gay man, drawing a blunt response from the panel that the political terrain is not as simple as picking the most appealing name on paper.
Sunny Hostin said the country had already seen what came after President Obama, arguing that Trump followed and that a backlash against a Black president was part of the story. Ana Navarro pushed back on the idea that Democrats had to settle on a white man, saying that framing can turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The clash mattered because it exposed the party’s oldest unanswered question heading into 2028: whether it chooses the candidate some Democrats think is safest, or the one who can actually build the biggest coalition.
For now, Farah Griffin’s prediction leaves Harris at the front of the conversation, even with no nomination contest underway. The panel on Friday also touched on JD Vance’s remark that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the likeliest to emerge as the frontrunner for the DNC in that cycle, a reminder that the 2028 field is already being mapped in public. The next real test will be whether Harris’ name continues to dominate early polling and elite speculation, or whether one of the other Democratic options starts to break through.
Clay Travis weighs Kamala Harris' 2028 path on The Story.
