Obama cuts off the 2028 field at the knees, Pelosi refuses to go in on Gavin, PLUS Trump responds on Munich and there is a secret attack on the 2nd Amendment. 

Rich Zeoli opens by arguing the Democrats don’t run a real grassroots nomination at all—superdelegates and party power brokers do—and that’s why the party keeps shutting down insurgent candidates year after year. We lay out how Biden in 2016, Bernie in 2016 and 2020, and even Kamala’s path all fit the same template: the decision gets made first, the “process” comes later.

Zeoli then turns to why Gavin Newsom’s 2028 “inevitable” storyline starts wobbling fast, pointing to Barack Obama’s public criticism of California’s homelessness approach and why that’s a brutal hit on Newsom’s core reco ...