The presidential election in 2028 was found more than three years, but with surprise, Charles Barkley has some thoughts.
During the performance on Si media from Jimmy Trainta Podcast, a great and current analyst TNT Sixers, discussed the last season of the network covering NBA matches and its fears related to the implementation of the program in ESPN next season. But the conversation fell into politics thanks to the flirting of Stephen A. Smith with the presidential race.
Smith did something like the media, advertising his presidential perspectives, claiming that people on the Capitol approached him after the second term of Donald Trump. The former columnist and Inquirer reporter even appeared as a guest at ABC This weekWhere Repeated his interest in a possible run for the White House to George Stephanopoulos.
“Calm down, Stephen A.” Barkley said. “It had to start with a joke, and he started taking it seriously … I would only say:” Smoking, if he turns off! ”
Barkley is not humpback when it comes to politics. A former Republican, Hall of Famer, was close to running for the governor of Alabama as independent in 2008, but he could not because of the requirements for stay. In 2017, he supported the unlikely victory of the Senate Democrat Doug Jones, he was the early supporter of Barack Obama and already has several thoughts about the elections in 2028.
“As independent, if the Democrats do not get Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania, i.e. Wes Moore, Governor Maryland, if they are not the leaders of the team for the Democratic Party, I would not consider voting for anyone else,” said Barkle, adding that Trump was not his “cup of tea.”
“I think Josh Shapiro is amazing, I think Wes Moore is amazing,” Barkley added. “If the Democratic Party does not choose one of these two, they will forever lose my support as independent.”
Barkley said he voted for Kamala HarrisBut she believes that her decision to bypass Shapiro to make a presidential ticket with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz sentenced her campaign.
“We lost the election fair and square because … she chose a terrible colleague with a run,” said Barkley. “A terrible colleague with a run.”
Shaprio and Barkley have one strong combination – love for basketball. Shaprio is a devoted 76ers fan and was the captain of his basketball team at high school at the Akiba of the Hebrew Academy in Bryn Mawr. The governor also briefly jumped into the world of sports broadcasting at the beginning of this year to call part of the Pitt – Syracuse basketball game in Pittsburgh. It is also regular at Philly Sports Talk Radio, where he calls Josh from Juniata or Josh from Abington, depending on the station he talks to.
“I’m not trying to hide, man. I just want to talk about sport” Shapiro told the former players of Eagles Lesan McCoy and Desean Jackon Program 25/10 in January. “I like to talk about how great eagles are doing and lament that Sixers are just sucking now, unfortunately.”
Does Josh Shapiro run for president in 2028?
So Shapiro works? It is a bit too early for official ads – former President Joe Biden did not declare that he had applied for re -election until a year earlier, while Trump announced his offer for the White House two years before the election in 2024.
But Shapiro has been supposed to have ambitions for a higher office for a long time, and also strikes the media in recent months, including Performance at HBO Real time with Bill Maher last month and an interview with Smith in February.
“I don’t think about 2028. I am Governor of Pennsylvania” Shapiro said on Road works Podcast last week. “I love what I do, I love this job and I have a lot more in me to work on it.”
This includes the fight between Trump’s administration. Last week, Pennsylvania joined 15 states in the lawsuit for federal financing dismissed from schools by the United States Education Department, which Trump is working on the shutter. According to the administration, in Pennsylvania it received an extension until March 2026 for spending $ 185 million for other money Covid Relief.
Before the possible presidential run, Shapiro still faces the re -election in Pennsylvania in 2026, where many Republicans are considering running a popular governor. This list includes the treasurer of Pennsylvania Stacy Garrita, USA Republican representative of the US Dan Meuser and Doug Mastriano State, who lost to Shapiro in 2022.
When it comes to too self-early probation of a democratic basic in 2028, Harris seems to be an early leader, largely except for her recognition after her defeat with Trump in November.
IN New Echelon Insights survey Of the likely voters, 28% of respondents said that he would vote for Harris, and Senator New Jersey Cory Booker-Świeżo from his record protest of Senate Trump protest-in the second place of 11%. Shapiro won 3% support, behind the former Secretary for Transport Pete Buttigieg and New York of the American representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but before Moore and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
For what is worth, the senator of Pennsylvania John Fetterman also received minimal support for the presidential race, on a par with Smith at 1%.
