Jon Ossoff

Four potential contenders in the 2028 race for the ​White House have caught American voters' attention with their early jockeying: Republicans JD Vance and Marco ‌Rubio ​and Democrats Jon Ossoff and Pete Buttigieg, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll. None of the four has yet formally launched a campaign and the parties' 2028 nominating contests are more than a year away, leaving plenty of time for new contenders to emerge and for voters' views to change. Some 45% of Republican voters polled said they believed Secretary of State Rubio would be an "excellent" presidential candidate, with 43% saying the same of ‌Vice President Vance. Former Transportation Secretary Buttigieg and US Senator Ossoff, of Georgia, each got that rating from 29% of Democratic voters. The poll, which surveyed 1,705 US adults nationwide including roughly 500 registered voters from each party and was completed on Monday, had a margin of error of 5 percentage points for Republican and Democratic voters. Pres...