Independent Voters Seek These Qualities in a Presidential Candidate for 2028
- Donald V. Watkins
- Aug 13
- 3 min read
By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on August 13, 2025
An Editorial Opinion
The race for president in 2028 has started. President Donald Trump's victory in 2024 showed us the importance of campaigning 2 to 3 years early for the job.
Trump has changed the America political landscape forever. Wimpy is "out" and macho is "in."
My group of independent voters has begun to evaluate potential presidential candidates. We are seek these qualities in a candidate:
A person who is accustomed to making tough, high impact, executive decisions on a daily basis. We desire a candidate who possesses a "conqueror's mentality."
A person who is strong enough to end America's $310 billion "gravy train" of economic and military aid to the anti-Christian, genocidal nation of Israel, immediately upon taking office. Right now, Israel is the only nation America funds that is led by a declared war criminal who is subject to an outstanding arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
A person who will: (a) roundup Trump's cadre of arrogant and lawless Cabinet Secretaries, White House staffers, agency heads, and Wall Street collaborators (b) charge them with crimes against humanity for their mistreatment of migrants of color, public corruption for their unbridled grifting, stock market manipulation, tampering with government records, perjury, and obstruction of justice, and (c) put them on trial before a specially empaneled Nuremberg-style tribunal.
A person who will order an immediate Department of Justice criminal investigation into “pay-to-play" allegations swirling around U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.”
A person who is committed to changing the lifetime tenure of Article III federal judges to a single 10-year term in office, with no possibility of reappointment to another federal judgeship.
A person who demonstrates a mastery of current events, world history, American history, domestic affairs, global economic issues, climate change, and foreign affairs.
A person who will restore domestic tranquility and reclaim America’s leadership role in the free world.
A person who will order the immediate arrest and prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein's and Ghislaine Maxwell's well-known army of rich, powerful, and politically connected child molesters, child rapists, and child pornographers.
A person who will honor America’s written and verbal commitments to its foreign allies and military alliance partners, and treat them with respect.
A person who will tax super-rich Americans so they will finally pay their fair share of taxes.
That said, we are not interested in supporting any career politician who ran for president in 2016, 2020 and 2024. They are simply too weak, incompetent, compromised, and/or reluctant to use the full powers of the presidency to effectuate our 2028 presidential agenda. Furthermore, their weaknesses, incompetence, and detachment from political reality in America paved the way for an unhinged Donald Trump to win the presidency in 2024.
We do not want a candidate who merely lusts for presidential pomp and circumstances, White House parties and perks, and joy rides on Air Force One. Those people need to run for homecoming king and queen at a local college. We want a candidate who is highly skilled and effective at kicking the asses of his/her adversaries in the political arena.
Finally, presidential candidates who accept AIPAC money that is drenched in the blood of Palestinian genocide victims in Gaza should leave us alone. They can go and suck up campaign money from the newly discovered reservoir of genocide-loving Americans.
Whoever is running for president in 2028 needs to declare his/her unofficial candidacy now. He/she should be aggressively challenging Trump every day on all of the major domestic and foreign policy issues where Trump is just shooting from the hip. My group of independent voters will not support any candidate who lacks the qualities enunciated in the article above.
These criteria by an apparently anonymous group of independent voters make a whole lot of sense to this left-wing Democrat. I kind of doubt that even Trump would have the chutzpah to run for an unconstitutional third term as suggested, or rather stated bluntly, by the previous commenter.
These criteria by an apparently anonymous group of independent voters make a whole lot of sense to this left-wing Democrat. I kind of doubt that even Trump would have the chutzpah to run for an unconstitutional third term as suggested, or rather stated bluntly, by the previous commenter.
Every American voter should want in a 2028 presidential candidate similar credentials independent voters want. I must agree, "Wimpy is out, and macho is in."
The unfortunate reality is that the current president has no plans of exiting the White House in 2028. His primary focus is to remain in office for life beyond term constraints. Unless illness or other complications impede his ability to function, I don't see a viable candidate from the Democratic spectrum that would defeat the president in the fall of 2027.
Maybe a strong independent presidential candidate would be the savior coming to rescue America from its slumber.