Sen Ruben Galgo (D-Arysis.) To pitch voters, kills many early-voting and swing states on how to reset the Democratic Party, speculating that he is eyeing the 2028 dialect.
Gallego, whose victory of the Senate last year was seen as a rare bright place for Democrats, was recently in New Hampshire and Iowa. Despite reducing the idea that he could run in the next presidential cycle during an event in the Granite state, his visit only fuck on the first-period senator.
But even when members of the party see Gallego as an emerging star within the party, they still face long tasks to create their national profile in the shadow of high-profile figures such as California Gav Gavin Newsom (D).
Erizona Democratic Advisor Adam Kinse said, “I want to say in my part,” Okay, you know, a senator running for the President who is in the office in less than two years, has no chance. “
“But then I remember that I worked for Barack Obama in 2007 and heard a lot of the same rhetoric, and he rose over it,” he said.
Gallego has seen an increase in its star in recent months, when she defeated Kari Lake, senior advisor to the US Agency for Global Media, in a tight competition to make former Sen Kirsten Sinima (I-ARIZ) a success.
Arizona Democrat, who represented a Phoenix-region’s house seat for the first decade, was one of the handful of Senate Democratic candidates who won their competition in the major battlefields despite former vice-president Harris.
The first-term senator has been clear about his prescription for the Democratic Party, including the members of his party to urge to attach to Latin and Hispanic voters to be meaningful, focus on the middle class andGive reasons for major polling blocks like young menTo vote for the party.
“We are never going to calm down as these Republicans, this is not just,” Gallego said about an interview with Hill in May how the party can attract young men back. “And honestly, even when we try, we do very fucking fringe, is it right?”
“But what, like, is actually calling them and trying to give them [them] A future vision about which they get excited? ,
This month, after a visit to several notable President’s primary states this month, Galleo pushed himself forward within the national conversation, including participating in the Iowa State Fair and a “Politics and Eggs” program, hosted by New England Council and New Hampshire Institute of Politics at St. Annalam College – a white house for both.
Erizona Democrat seemed to reduce the idea during his visit to the Democrat Granite state that he could go on in 2028 at the “Politics and Eggs” program saying “I don’t know where my future goes. I don’t see it,” keeping in mind their growing family.
“I know that I have a message, I know this message helps and if Democrats can use it, we can win,” he said.
His team said that his focus between his visit is on supporting his party, even his stops in Pennsylvania, Iowa and New Hampshire have raised questions about his next steps.
Gallego Chief of Staff Rafael Chavez-Fernandez told The Hill, “Ruben is traveling to listen to Democrats on the ground to listen, learn and support-Not to talk about 2028.”
“Their focus is to ensure that the party is distributing for families working today and building strength for further elections.”
Democrats are reading tea leaves, yet, suggesting that they are considering it at least. The party members who have seen Galgo during their early state trips said they have been impressed by it, given that he is attractive and well prepared.
Iowa State Sen Matt Blake (D) said, “You can see that he did some homework.”
Black said, “Our conversation focuses on whether the impact of the tariff … how it was affecting our soybean and the ability to export our corn,” Blake said. “And he was very interested in what those influences on our economy in the state.”
Scott Merry, who worked on 2020 campaigns by Sen Amy Clobuhar (D-Mainon) and former President Biden at New Hampshire, participated in the “politics and eggs” program on Friday, said how Gallego took issues affecting voters in a state and implemented them in granite state.
Merry said that he wanted more clarity from the senator about the situation of New Hampshire, who directly asked Gallego as the first-in-the-the-nation primary after asking about it. Merry said that he gave a “node” to the granite state, given that it contains independent and rural voters – the type of voters Gallego said the party would need to win back the House in 2026, for example.
“So he shook the New Hampshire a head in a way, but stopped saying that the New Hampshire should be before-in-the-the-primary,” Merick said. “So hopefully when he comes back, we can find him to answer that a little more straight.”
Further long work for Gallego, however, will assure the Democrats that he may be his next leader – a few months before his first Senate election and at a time when the party wants to hit the reset button after a disappointing November election.
Black said, “They need to ensure that he is a standard carrier for the Democratic message that is moving forward, and he should also be the person who is defining himself in such a way that … breaks down from the pack.”
Many Democrats invite Obama when they talk about Galgo. The former President served in the Senate for a few years only before joining the highest office in the country. And while the Democrats are enamored with California, Kentaki, Pennsylvania and its governors, the party has not nominated as its candidate since 1996.
Democratic Funderizer Liz Minela said that he first crossed the path with Galgo during the 2024 election cycle in a funding program in the northern Chicago suburbs, putting his appearance as “incredible”.
But he said that these days Democrats needed a fighter like Newsom, given that “this is a completely different battlefield compared to 2008.”
“He seems to be really measured and analytical and has a deep understanding of the way voters think. He has a great foreign policy experience. He actually works well with colleagues,” Minala said about Galgo.
He said, “I wish we still lived in that film version of United States Politics. But it is no longer ‘West Wing’.” “This is so – it is worse than ‘Vip’.”
Erizona Democrats are also not exempting the fact that they can see both their senators running for the highest office in the country, both military giants, but separate resumes and lanes for appeal.
Sen Mark Kelly (D-Eries.), Which was in the small list of Harris for the comrades running in 2024,Questions around 2028And has traveled to notable states like South Carolina and Michigan with his wife, former rape gabi gifords (D-Eries).
Galego opted to run for the Senate during the 2020 cycle,Looking to avoid a bitter primaryAgainst Kelly at that time. But the two may be on a syllabus of a confrontation in a few years – something that does not consider the Democrats in the Grand Canyon State at all bad, even though it means many cycles of the Senate elections again.
Jim Pedson, a former president of the Erizona State Party, said, “Boy, if we have to go through him, it means that some positive things have happened,” said Jim Pedson, a former president of the Arizona State Party.
