Analysis: What’s changed about the 2028 Democratic presidential field? Kamala Harris | CNN Politics

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. It’s too early to start really handicapping the 2028 presidential race, but some would-be candidates are already making serious moves. I talk periodically to CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere about how the race is changing among Democrats and what to expect. Our latest chat, transcribed and edited for style and flow, is below. WOLF: We last spoke at the end of last year. What’s changed? DOVERE: The thing that maybe has changed the atmosphere of preliminary thinking the most is that Kamala Harris has made a couple of comments that suggest that she is more serious about running again than most people thought she would be. If she runs, she would be a factor in the race. I don’t think she would run away with the nomination. But for anybody who is thinking about running, it’s a different kind of race if Harris is in it versus if she’s not, for a couple of reasons. Obviously she was the nominee and is the former vice president, so inevitably the race would orient around her in a way that it did in the 2024 Republican primaries around Donald Trump and in the 2020 Democr

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