{"id":161686,"date":"2026-04-20T01:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161686"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:36:47","slug":"mitch-landrieu-quietly-tests-2028-presidential-waters-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=161686","title":{"rendered":"Mitch Landrieu Quietly Tests 2028 Presidential Waters in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>CNN | April 19, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuietly, someone no one had been thinking about as a 2028 contender showed up to a meeting of Democratic activists here and started to incept a presidential campaign \u2014 including for himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You can begin to dream about the America that should be. Because we are not going back to where we were. It\u2019s like when New Orleans got destroyed by Katrina,\u2019 he told a gathering of the Young Democrats of America. \u2018We grabbed our past \u2014 that was important, that told us who we are. We got rid of the mistakes we made. And we looked forward to a new day.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Multiple people in the room who listened to his toast told CNN later they\u2019d been surprised how much it felt like a soft launch. Upward of two dozen Democrats are already writing books, touring potential early primary states or otherwise setting up presidential campaigns-in-waiting. Most are better known than Landrieu. But with few registering as more than a blip in early polls, plenty of less familiar names see an opening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/19\/politics\/mitch-landrieu-president-new-orleans-mayor-2028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more at CNN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN | April 19, 2026 \u201cQuietly, someone no one had been thinking about as a 2028 contender showed up to a meeting of Democratic activists here and started to incept a presidential campaign \u2014 including for himself. \u2018You can begin to dream about the America that should be. Because we are not going back to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161693,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161686\/revisions\/161693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}