This new list of possible Democrat presidential candidates for 2028 is a TOTAL JOKE



The 2028 presidential race may still be years away, but a Washington Post article reveals that Democrats are already gaming out their next candidate — and BlazeTV host Pat Gray isn’t impressed by much of the field.

Though he does think one of them could pose a problem for Republicans.

“Democrats recommended that South Carolina vote first in the Democrat process. That boosts black voters' representation in picking the nominee and Kamala Harris’ fortunes, given that the former vice president and 2024 nominee is probably the candidate on this list with the most support among black women,” Gray reads.

“She’s been rallying voters for the midterm elections by touting her controversial plan to abolish the Electoral College and add justices to the Supreme Court,” he continues. “Oh, that is — that can’t happen."


Gavin Newsom is also on the list, alongside Josh Shapiro, who Gray notes is “not going to make it because Democrats hate Jews.”

“They’re too anti-Semitic now,” he says.

Unsurprisingly, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made the short list as well.

“Democrat socialists are having their own moment after helping New York City mayor become mayor. They and the broader progressive movement ousted longtime members of Congress in deep-blue cities and won a hard-fought primary in Michigan,” Gray reads from the Post article.

However, he notes that “she won’t say that Israel should be destroyed, so she’s not good enough for the DSA.”

Another potential candidate that Gray says is a “frightening possibility” is Mark Kelly.

“He’s a veteran, former astronaut,” he explains.

“We were told that this was Obama’s guy, that Obama wanted instead of Kamala in the beginning after Joe Biden dropped out,” Jeff Fisher chimes in, adding that he also has a bad case of “Trump derangement syndrome.”

“Then they have to mention, of course, Pete Buttigieg, because, well, you’d be homophobic if you don’t mention him,” Gray says.

“We don’t want to be homophobic, and neither does the Washington Post,” he says.

Also on the list is Gretchen Whitmer, who Gray says “nobody cares about” any more.

“She’s a nightmare,” Fisher says.

“I think she’s out,” Gray adds.

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INSANE: Radical Abdul El-Sayed CANNOT represent Michigan in the Senate after THIS



Mackinac Island is an island located in Lake Huron between Michigan’s Upper and Lower Peninsulas — and Abdul El-Sayed, the Democrat nominee for Senate in Michigan, hates it.

Known for banning motor vehicles for over 125 years, the island relies on bicycles, walking, and horse-drawn carriages.

And in a recently resurfaced video of El-Sayed walking on the island, he says, “I hate Mackinac so much.”

“It’s funny because, like, if we win, this is going to be the, like, summer home,” he said, adding, “I'm just going to be, like, every time I’ve ever come here I’ve hated it. Why am I here?”


“So if you live in Mackinac Island, understand that the guy that wants to represent you in the U.S. Senate hates you. Just hates your island there,” executive producer Keith Malinak says on “Pat Gray Unleashed.”

“The homes are awesome there,” Jeff Fisher comments.

“And he hates it,” BlazeTV host Pat Gray says.

“You can get a house there relatively cheap for the size. Like, you can get a beautiful mansion for like $2 million, but it can only be open during the summer,” Fisher points out, explaining that it gets closed down in the winter.

“The trade-off is that your governor is Gretchen Whitmer,” Malinak adds.

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When a nation rejects God, it gets Islam: Steve Deace reacts to Michigan’s primary earthquake



On August 4, Abdul El-Sayed, the radical progressive Muslim activist who has called for abolishing ICE, universal health care, codifying unrestricted access to abortion, and other far-left initiatives, narrowly beat Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary.

His victory bodes ill not just for the state of Michigan but for the United States as a whole, says BlazeTV host Steve Deace, because it exposes a chilling reality about America and the direction the nation is headed.

On this episode of the “Steve Deace Show,” the former Michigan resident pulls back the curtain on what’s really fueling America’s downward spiral into radicalization, mental illness, and racial idolatry.

“Gretchen Whitmer is probably the most successful Democrat politician the state of Michigan has had in a generation. … A decade as governor, queen bee of the state,” says Deace, “and she just got rolled by an Islamist in a Senate primary who won despite her endorsement of his opponent.”

What does this say about the direction of the nation?

According to Deace, we’re witnessing an “Islam surge” in the United States because the people have forgotten or rejected America’s intentional design to function like biblical Israel under the Sinai covenant — where the people obey God and receive His protecting and blessing, and as a result, the nation shines as a “city on a hill” that attracts outsiders to the true God.

“We want to be, in a civic sense, a covenantal people of the one true God. We want His favor, which means that we need to be a nation of His instruments, and you've seen God bless that,” says Deace. “Otherwise, we wouldn't have lasted as long as we have.”

But as it was with ancient Israel, when the people stray, God’s discipline follows.

“One of the marks of a covenantal people receiving the discipline of the God you have covenanted with that you also see in the Old Testament is you're overrun with foreigners and foreign gods,” Deace points out.

He asks if America’s current predicament — being overrun with illegal immigrants and the rising influence of Islam — could be God’s judgment on a nation that has rebelled against the covenantal design its founders sought to emulate.

“The answer, of course, would be yes,” says Deace frankly.

“We disobey God to a point collectively that He then removes His restraining hand. This is Romans 1,” he adds.

Whether America “lost [its] zeal” for “the one true God” or deliberately embraced “foreigners and their ways,” the “outcome is the same,” says Deace: God gives us over to our sinful ways, allowing us to reap the consequences of our decisions.

That’s why Islam is growing in power and influence in the United States, he argues.

New York City’s socialist Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani “is not an outlier but a herald,” Deace warns.

“After 9/11, we imported almost 4 million people from Islam-dominated countries,” and then we embarked on “a rebranding campaign that [Islam] is not a violent religion but one of peace,” he recounts.

“These seeds,” he says, “were planted many years ago” and are now being “[fertilized]” with “pagan indoctrination,” creating a spiritual "vacuum.”

“And nature abhors a vacuum, and the fake foreign demon gods will fill it for you. And if you won't let them, you're a racist, of course,” Deace observes.

“Normie voters,” he says, mistakenly believe that America’s biggest problems right now are “mental illness,” “racial idolatry," and “radicalization.” But those are merely “symptoms” of a far deeper and more terrifying root problem.

“The disease is you're up against a rival religion,” Deace warns.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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Christian retreat is becoming political defeat



Gretchen Whitmer is probably the most successful Democrat politician Michigan has produced in a generation. Yet her endorsement just got rolled by an Islamist in my native state’s Senate primary.

How? Why?

It is time to smash the idols before they smash us. Either we let the Lion of Judah out of His cage — or we learn what fills the vacuum.

One of the things we’ve discussed on my BlazeTV show is that if you go back to the beginning of our now 250-year-old country, the founders repeatedly drew on the covenantal language they saw in the Bible between Old Testament Israel and God.

The Sinai covenant. The Ten Commandments. The blessings and curses of Deuteronomy. “Choose life, that you and your offspring may live.” The men who constructed this nation returned to these themes again and again because they understood something fundamental about a people hoping to endure: Obey God, and He will provide for and protect you.

In the New Testament, under the priesthood of every believer, Christians are called to become “living sacrifices” to God and then to our neighbors. That is how the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it.

Think of a light in the pitch dark on a summer night. The bugs cannot help being drawn to it. In the same way, our unbelieving friends and family, our unbelieving neighbors, even unbelieving nations should be drawn to the light of a people living faithfully before God. That is part of the Great Commission laid out in Matthew 28.

We are meant to be a shining city on a hill for the cause of Christ.

So when the Declaration of Independence closes with the founders appealing to the “Supreme Judge of the world” for the rectitude of their intentions, they are not merely adding religious ornamentation. They are invoking Almighty God as judge of their cause. If their revolution is unrighteous, then let Him strike it down.

Days of fasting and thanksgiving were common among the founders for the same reason. They understood themselves as accountable to something above themselves.

Yet now Islam is here, taking ground and making demands.

What does that tell us?

One of the marks of a covenantal people under divine discipline in the Bible is that they are overrun by foreigners and foreign gods.

Uh-oh.

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I do not know how much time we have left to turn this fate around. But lying to ourselves about it will guarantee that we have none.

This is Romans 1. God has removed His restraining hand and is allowing the American freak flag to fly at full mast.

Dearborn, Michigan. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Madison, Wisconsin. New York. California. The WNBA. You name it. We suck.

Paul describes something similar in his first letter to the church in Corinth, a congregation planted in the middle of a notoriously lascivious pagan culture. Corinth’s reputation for depravity was so notorious that moral decadence itself became associated with the city.

Paul then confronts one church member engaged in a form of sexual immorality so scandalous that, as Paul says, even the pagans would not tolerate it. His command is severe: Remove the man from the church and deliver him “to Satan for the destruction of the flesh.”

What does he mean?

Paul is demanding that the sinner face the consequences of his rebellion rather than allowing the church to become a nicer-than-God incubator for it. Making sin comfortable gives the sinner no incentive to repent.

So ask yourself: Do you belong to a church that behaves the way Paul prescribes?

And can the answer possibly be yes anywhere near Dearborn, Michigan — or any place becoming like it?

As we discussed last year on my show, Mayor Mamdani in New York was not an outlier. He was a herald of things to come in a land with an ungrateful and undisciplined church.

Since 9/11, the United States has admitted almost 4 million people from Muslim-majority countries. That alone would have tempted previous generations to sin in the opposite direction of our current surrender.

After Pearl Harbor, the Greatest Generation responded to Japan’s attack with the grotesque injustice of rounding up Japanese Americans and placing them in internment camps. That was evil.

But today we have raced to the opposite extreme. Rather than treat individual Muslims unjustly, we refuse to recognize Islamism as a rival civilizational and political force at all. We rebrand Islam as a “religion of peace” while importing more people from Muslim-dominated cultures in a quarter-century than live in my entire home state of Iowa.

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Where once there was overreaction, now there is willful blindness.

We are issuing Babylon an invitation.

Someone will always rule. Something will always be worshipped.

So we must stop fooling ourselves that bad politics or mental illness is the deepest enemy we face. Those are symptoms. What we are actually confronting is rival religion. And the only thing that defeats bad theology is good theology.

My fellow Americans, communism and Islamism are both ascendant in our land. It is time to smash the idols before they smash us. Either we let the Lion of Judah out of His cage — or we learn what fills the vacuum.

'Inshallah': Democrats in Michigan roll the dice on a far-left radical even Whitmer didn't want



Democratic voters in Michigan have spoken — but will they have buyer's remorse come November?

Though the Michigan primary was held on Tuesday, Wednesday morning rolled around before some outlets pronounced 41-year-old Abdul El-Sayed the winner of the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. Haley Stevens, the candidate preferred by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other establishment Democrats, finished a close second.

A Rogers win would therefore be a Republican pickup and go a long way to help the GOP maintain control of the Senate.

The RealClearPolling average showed El-Sayed with a commanding lead of more than 10 points over Stevens heading into the primary, but with 98.6% of expected votes counted, El-Sayed had just a one-point margin of victory, 48.5% to 47.5%, NBC News reported.

Mike Rogers, 63, won the Republican nomination after running unopposed.

Speaking to supporters early Wednesday, El-Sayed invoked his Muslim religion to express confidence that he would prevail. According to El-Sayed, doubters might ask, "If and when we win this race, how are you going to beat Mike Rogers and their money?"

He continued: "I want you to remind them that if we come through this, when we come through this — inshallah — that we'll have taken $70 million on the chin and kept fighting back."

Inshallah is an Arabic word that means "God willing," and Muslims use it so frequently that it has even entered modern English parlance.

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The tight primary indicates that many Michigan Democrats have misgivings about El-Sayed, and indeed, he is no stranger to controversy. El-Sayed:

  • has been endorsed by far-left radicals like Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
  • campaigned with America-hater Hasan Piker, who once said, "America deserved 9/11."
  • bills himself as a medical "doctor" even though he reportedly has never treated a patient, isn't licensed in Michigan, and has never passed any board exams.
  • employed a campaign staffer earlier this year who is currently under federal indictment in connection with anti-Semitic attacks.
  • expressed sympathy for a "Hezbollah-inspired" terrorist who tried to kill Jewish schoolchildren in Michigan on March 13 over Israeli strikes in Iran.
  • promised during a gubernatorial campaign against Whitmer in 2018 to allow illegal aliens to obtain a Michigan driver's license.
After El-Sayed was declared the winner, Rogers' senior communications advisor Greg Manz issued the following statement:
Abdul El-Sayed is doubling down on the same failed, feckless far-left agenda that has held Michigan back. Let's also not forget that Abdul El-Sayed is a terrorist sympathizer who is hell-bent on releasing violent criminals from prisons and throwing open our borders so criminal illegal aliens can flock to Michigan neighborhoods.

This November, Michiganders will soundly reject radical, Marxist policies and elect Mike Rogers, who will put working families first and protect our freedoms.
This is an open seat since Democrat Sen. Gary Peters decided not to seek a third term. A Rogers win would therefore be a Republican pickup and go a long way to help the GOP maintain control of the Senate. Democrats already need to flip four Republican-held seats to wrest back control.

But it won't be easy for Rogers. He not only lost narrowly to Democrat Elissa Slotkin in the 2024 Senate race, but Michigan, which went to Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024, has not elected a Republican U.S. senator in over 30 years.

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Whitmer's law DEFEATED! Therapists are free to steer kids away from trans insanity



Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and LGBT activists in the Michigan legislature were dealt a massive defeat on Thursday after a lengthy battle over a law that threatened to ruin counselors who help gender-confused children by compassionately grounding them in reality, not affirming delusions.

Luke Goodrich, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and attorney for the counselors, said in a statement, "This is a major victory for children, counselors, and common sense."

'Michigan is now admitting its law is unconstitutional.'

"Kids who are hurting deserve compassion, not a one-way ticket to harmful drugs, hormones, and surgery," added the attorney.

Democrats in Michigan and Colorado put smiles on fellow LGBT activists' faces in recent years by passing laws prohibiting so-called "conversion therapy" for minors.

Under Democrats' House Bills 4616 and 4617 in Michigan and House Bill 19-1172 in Colorado — which defined "conversion therapy" as efforts to "change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity" — psychiatrists and mental health care providers who failed to indulge delusions or affirm homosexual inclination could face disciplinary actions, lose their licenses, and/or receive enormous fines.

Of course, these laws did not similarly prohibit gender ideologues from encouraging confused kids in therapy sessions to embrace the delusion that they are actually members of the opposite sex or to undergo sex-rejection medical procedures.

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After ratifying her state's version of the prohibition on reality-affirming counseling in July 2023, Whitmer stated, "We are banning the horrific practice of conversion therapy in Michigan and ensuring this is a state where you can be who you are."

"As a mom of a member of the community and a proud, lifelong ally, I am grateful that we are taking action to make Michigan a more welcoming, inclusive place," added Whitmer, whose daughter identifies as a lesbian.

The following year, a licensed Catholic therapist living in Lansing, Emily McJones, and the Catholic Charities of Jackson, Lenawee, and Hillsdale Counties filed a federal lawsuit against Whitmer and the state of Michigan, arguing that HB 4616 constituted an attempt to control counselors' speech that violates several constitutional protections.

"It violates the Free Speech Clause because it regulates speech based on its content and viewpoint and cannot satisfy strict scrutiny," said the complaint. "It violates the Due Process Clause because it employs vague, undefined terms that invite arbitrary and selective enforcement. And it violates the Free Exercise Clause because it targets religious speech and interferes with the right of parents to direct the religious upbringing of their children."

The lawsuit noted further that the law harms children, not only because it deprived them of the compassionate counseling they need but forced counselors "to 'affirm' children in the belief that they were born in the wrong body and help them undergo permanent, life-altering medical procedures that many will come to regret."

The plaintiffs suffered an initial setback in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, where Judge Jane Beckering — an appointee of former President Joe Biden — denied their motion for a preliminary injunction and claimed that therapy amounts to conduct rather than protected speech.

In December 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed the Biden judge's decision. The case was subsequently kicked back to the district court, which issued a preliminary injunction against the law.

The final resolution of the matter was, however, put on the back burner pending the result of the Supreme Court's decision in Chiles v. Salazar regarding the law in Colorado. On March 31, SCOTUS determined that Colorado's ban "regulates speech based on viewpoint" in violation of the First Amendment.

In light of the decisions by the Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit, the district court in Michigan delivered a final ruling on Thursday, permanently banning the enforcement of Whitmer's controversial law.

"The Court hereby DECLARES that HB 4616, as applied to licensed mental health professionals engaged in therapy that consists exclusively of talking, violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution," Beckering wrote in her final judgment. "The Court hereby PROHIBITS Defendants, their successors, agents, and all those acting in concert with them from enforcing HB 4616 against licensed professionals who engage in therapy that consists exclusively of talking."

"Michigan is now admitting its law is unconstitutional," said Goodrich. "Its surrender confirms that the Constitution and the best available science are on the side of counselors who help children find peace with their bodies. States still trying to censor that care should take note."

Whitmer's office did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

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There Were Thousands Of Faucis

Los Angeles County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl voted to order the closure of all restaurants in the county, then left that very meeting and went to dinner at Il Forno in Santa Monica.

James Comey-style 'threat' against Trump apparently etched into National Mall grass



Eighty-six is more than just a number. It is slang that for roughly a century has meant "to get rid of" or "to throw out."

When used in reference to a person, 86-ing can mean the person's termination of employment or denial of service. To "86 someone" does, however, have another widely understood meaning: to kill that person.

'Any threat against the president is taken very seriously.'

Just weeks ahead of the primary America250 celebrations in the national capital and days ahead of the UFC match at the White House, a massive "86 47" appeared etched or possibly chemically burned into the grass on the National Mall, just east of the World War II memorial.

The numbers 86 and 47 — the latter an apparent reference to the 47th president, Donald Trump — were still visible on Friday in the live images taken by EarthCam's camera, which is mounted atop the Washington Monument.

Members of the National Guard and U.S. Park Police responded to the scene of the vandalism, which was reported around 11:30 a.m. on Thursday. The area was promptly roped off by National Park Service workers.

Park Police said that grass samples have been collected for testing.

"The deranged vandalism on our National Mall will not be tolerated," the U.S. Department of the Interior, which manages national parks like the National Mall, said in a statement obtained by NBC News. "Any threat against the president is taken very seriously by the department, and our U.S. Park Police will investigate this incident and hold those responsible accountable."

White House spokesman David Ingle condemned the act, stating, "Anyone who engages in or endorses political violence or assassination culture must be condemned in the harshest terms possible."

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Just days ago, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss — an appointee of former President Barack Obama — barred the National Park Service from preventing an anti-Trump group from waving an "86 47" flag around in the area.

The radical group in question, Accountability Now USA, has volunteers calling nonstop for the president's ouster and protesting the Trump administration near the George Meade statue on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. The group was notified in April by an NPS agent that the display of "unprotected obscenity" was "not protected by the First Amendment and is therefore prohibited and a violation of law."

The Obama judge evidently didn't share the NPS' concerns about the group's inflammatory messaging targeting a man whom assassins have attempted to murder on at least three occasions. Moss wrote, "The term '86' is used far more often to mean 'throw out' than 'kill,' and it appeared at a demonstration that was focused, of all things, on the constitutional impeachment and 'removal' of the President."

The unknown radical or radicals behind the vandalism at the National Mall and Accountability Now USA's flag-bearers are hardly the only individuals who have used the numbers to publicly call for Trump's elimination of one kind or another.

Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted in late April over his since-deleted social media post featuring an image of seashells arranged to form the numbers "86 47." Comey was charged with threatening the life of the president and transmitting in interstate and foreign commerce a communication that contained a threat to kill the president.

While she has not similarly been indicted, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) faced backlash in 2020 during Trump's first term for conducting an interview with a pin displayed behind her that read "8645." Trump was then the 45th president.

The Trump War Room account said at the time, "Whitmer is encouraging assassination attempts against President Trump just weeks after someone sent a ricin-laced packaged to the White House."

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Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer Rules Out White House Run In 2028

'I think there will be a robust group of people running for president.'

REPORT: Biden Wanted Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer As Running Mate But Felt Forced To Pick Kamala

A source claimed the situation called for black running mate