{"id":1012779,"date":"2026-08-20T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1012779\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:50:14","slug":"dnc-2028-convention-philly-among-democrats-short-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1012779\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC 2028 convention: Philly among Democrats’ short list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats on Thursday narrowed the list of potential host cities for their 2028 presidential convention to Boston, Denver and Philadelphia as\u00a0their party<\/a>\u00a0looks ahead to a wide-open primary to succeed President Donald Trump.\n<\/p>\n

Democratic National Committee Chairman\u00a0Ken Martin<\/a>\u00a0said in a statement the cities put forward \u201cincredibly strong bids,\u201d and he promised the convention would be an \u201cinspiring celebration of our party\u2019s future nominee.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

A final decision is expected to be made later this year by party leaders. Republicans have already\u00a0chosen Houston<\/a>\u00a0for the site of their 2028 convention.\n<\/p>\n

The Democratic convention, scheduled for Aug. 7-10, 2028, traditionally gives the party a chance to formally introduce its nominee to the country, rally the base and kick-start the most intense period of campaigning ahead of the general election.\n <\/p>\n

The party didn\u2019t specify why Atlanta and Chicago, which was the site of\u00a0the 2024 convention<\/a>, were eliminated. Officials visited all five cities in April and May, considering logistical and fundraising capacity among other factors.\n<\/p>\n

The three finalists are liberal strongholds surrounded by the type of suburban areas that have become increasingly important to the party in recent elections. They also provide access to fundraising and key demographic and interest groups, like labor unions.\n<\/p>\n

While Colorado and Massachusetts have gone Democratic in recent presidential elections, Pennsylvania has been among the biggest battlegrounds. Trump, a Republican,\u00a0won Pennsylvania<\/a>\u00a0in 2024.\n<\/p>\n

Philadelphia last hosted the convention in 2016, Denver in 2008 and Boston in 2004.\n<\/p>\n

Before the presidential primary gets into gear, Democrats are looking at\u00a0this year\u2019s midterm elections<\/a>\u00a0as an opportunity to flip the narrowly divided Republican-led House and maybe take back control of the Senate.\n<\/p>\n

Democrats face fundraising disadvantages compared with Republicans, along with financial debt, and Martin has\u00a0confronted criticism<\/a>\u00a0over his stewardship of the party.\n<\/p>\n

During a recent\u00a0DNC meeting<\/a>\u00a0in Texas, Martin downplayed the critics and called for the party to unite as it tries to win the midterms and look ahead to 2028 and the end of Trump\u2019s second term.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democrats on Thursday narrowed the list of potential host cities for their 2028 presidential convention to Boston, Denver…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1012780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,61007,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1012779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-dnc","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}