{"id":27150,"date":"2022-11-07T05:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T05:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=27150"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:22:16","slug":"the-democratic-partys-top-option-to-challenge-trump-for-the-white-house-in-2024-is-meghan-markle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/07\/the-democratic-partys-top-option-to-challenge-trump-for-the-white-house-in-2024-is-meghan-markle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democratic Party’s top option to challenge Trump for the White House in 2024 is Meghan Markle."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Meghan Markle is the top choice among Democrats for a 2024 White House run, new polling shows. Exclusive polling for Express.co.uk by the Washington-based Democracy Institute of likely Democratic voters found 64 percent say the party should opt for a female candidate at the next presidential election in two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the Duchess of Sussex, who is living in California with Prince Harry after quitting royal duties, came first in a list of potential runners with 27 percent from the 525 Democrats in the poll of 1,500 likely voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President Kamala Harris was second with 25 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hillary Clinton – who lost to Donald Trump in 2016 – and left-wing Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were in joint third with 20 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, a favourite of the liberal left who made a bid to be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020, trailed behind on eight percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle Obama, the wife of former US President Barack Obama, has previously ruled herself out despite being a favourite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meghan could come up against Donald Trump if she made a bid for US President (Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democracy Institute director Patrick Basham said: “We have confirmed that most Democrats want a female and arguably demand a female candidate next time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It has been said for a few years that the Democrats will pretty soon be in a position where the national Democratic party stops nominating white heterosexual males as candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Previously we have had Michelle Obama in there, she is not a serious candidate because she does not appear to be serious about running.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The elephant in the room on the Democratic side is Meghan Markle, who continues to make moves out there and I would argue test the water in various ways and in various senses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“She finds herself partly because of her paint by numbers profile ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Democrat<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some 64 percent of likely Democrat voters said the party should pick a female candidate (Image: DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Democrat<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Meghan topped the list of possible female Democratic candidates (Image: DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle is the top choice among Democrats for a 2024 White House run, new polling shows. Exclusive polling for Express.co.uk by the Washington-based Democracy Institute of likely Democratic voters found 64 percent say the party should opt for a female candidate at the next presidential election in two years. And the Duchess of Sussex, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9970,160,2119,2848,12679,9217,11337,11606,5799,913,2825,6576,1291,911,12210,11491,69,1143,11398,3114,10634,851,70,2812,852,6025,5911,8460,3805,11377,1776,965,6082,12605,184,6348,11331,2802,5704,2354,8869,6571,2982,3954,594],"class_list":["post-27150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-barack-obama","tag-basham","tag-california","tag-clinton","tag-congresswoman","tag-demand","tag-democracy","tag-democrat","tag-democratic","tag-democratic-party","tag-democrats","tag-duchess-of-sussex","tag-election","tag-female","tag-harris","tag-harry","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-kamala","tag-kamala-harris","tag-lost","tag-massachusetts","tag-meghan","tag-meghan-markle","tag-michelle-obama","tag-obama","tag-patrick","tag-patrick-basham","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-presidential-election","tag-prince-harry","tag-senator","tag-uk","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-us","tag-us-president","tag-vice-president","tag-vice-president-kamala-harris","tag-washington","tag-water","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-will","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51331,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27150\/revisions\/51331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}