Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) declined to say whether he plans to run for president in 2028, stressing instead that he’s focused on addressing voters’ concerns about the Democratic Party.
In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Jake Tapper noted the swing-state senator was video-conferencing in from Pennsylvania and recently did a town hall in Michigan, adding, “Both of them are key battleground states.”
“Yes or no: Are you considering running for president in 2028?” Tapper asked.
“That is a good question,” Kelly responded.
“I know you want a yes or no answer,” he continued. “And I’m not going to give you a yes or no one because I’m just trying to do this job, get the word out to the American people.”
Kelly, who was in the running to be former Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 running mate, pointed to Democrats’ poor polling and said he’s working to get those numbers up.
“I’m trying to improve, you know, the polling that you talked about, and just listen to voters wherever they are about, you know, what are the problems they’re dealing with and how do we fix them,” he added.
Multiple Democrats are surveying the landscape to position themselves for possible runs in 2028.
