The midterm elections are less than three months away, but the 2028 race for The White House is already shaping up. That’s especially true for Democrats looking to take back 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue after President Donald Trump’s second term concludes.
President Trump has made good on his promises to implement a historically strong pro-Second Amendment, pro-firearm industry agenda that protects Constitutional rights. That track record is crystal clear to anyone remotely paying attention.
But Democrats are salivating at the chance to retake the Oval Office. That would likely mean picking up the torch on an anti-gun activist agenda right where former President Joe Biden left off, stomping on rights and suffocating the lawful and highly regulated firearm industry that provides law-abiding Americans the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Twenty-six months out, former Vice President Kamala Harris is in the pole position according to some *very early* pollings with an inside track to the nomination. She’s testing out a Democratic Socialists of America-inspired agenda to go with it, including hostile and severe gun control schemes.
What the Polling Says
A Rasmussen poll released early this week showed the former vice president with a sizable early lead in the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination contest. Former Vice President Harris currently takes 37 percent of poll responders. Second place honors at this point go to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, another extreme gun control zealot, back at 14 percent. Former Biden administration Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has 10 percent and U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) garners nine percent.
The Rasmussen poll revealed the former vice president has increased her vote share in the last couple of months, when a May poll showed her with 34 percent. But different polls show a far different landscape this far out. An AtlasIntel poll, for instance, gave a nearly inverted picture of the top four, with Rep. Ocasio-Cortez leading with 26 percent followed by former Secretary Buttigieg with 22.4 percent, Gov. Newsom at 21.2 percent and the former vice president all the way down at under 13 percent.
Extreme Platform
The former vice president already has the antigun, anti-Second Amendment platform and track record to top the political party that wants to abolish gun rights.
Harris infamously led the anti-firearm industry charge by being placed as the leader of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, taking a “whole-of-government approach” to suffocating the industry and stomping on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
That group apparently directly colluded with John Feinblatt’s Everytown for Gun Safety from within the West Wing to attack a lawful firearm manufacturer—which U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) is still investigating.
There wasn’t an anti-gun position she didn’t share with former President Biden. There wasn’t a lie she wouldn’t repeat. There was no logical reasoning she could come up with to explain her support any of it. There wasn’t a contradiction she wouldn’t make — all in the name of placating and gaining the support of the most virulently extreme gun control groups in the country. That includes wanting to ban common handguns while serving as California Attorney General and allegedly owning a handgun most other Californians can’t.
There’s really no question as to where the former veep and apparent early 2028 Democrat presidential contender stands on Second Amendment rights. She wants to do away with them.
How She’d Do It
If there’s any question from skeptical voters who might think there’s no way former Vice President Harris would carry out her extreme gun control agenda, you don’t have to wonder. She told us exactly how she’ll do it.
Speaking at a conference in Nashville just two weeks ago, former Vice President Harris called for expanding and packing of the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as granting statehood (and two U.S. Senators each) to Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. She also proclaimed that the Electoral College needed “revisiting” — code for support of a direct popular vote for the U.S. presidency.
“We must allow for a real conversation about revisiting certain things,” the former vice president told an audience, according to Fox News. “I know this is gonna be controversial coming from me, in particular. We need to revisit the Electoral College. We need to revisit the point of expanding the court to 13 justices…”
Just a few years ago, suggesting those types of “reforms” only happened on the fringes. But as the DSA has firmly taken hold of the Democrat party and jolted elected officials to extreme and radical positions, leading politicians on the left have been all too happy to play footsie with these half-baked ideas — including seizing control of the means of production of firearms and ammunition.
In just two short years since voters tossed her out of The White House, former Vice President Harris has lurched leftward, seeking approval of the most radical factions of a party that could send her back.
Once the midterm elections are through in November, the real race for 2028 will pick up the pace. The former vice president already has the extreme gun control agenda to carry forward from a disastrous four years under the previous administration.
Voters must #GUNVOTE and know what lies ahead if they wish to protect and preserve their rights.
Matt Manda is Manager, Public Affairs for the National Shooting Sports Foundation.