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Steve Bannon fight with Jon Stewart set

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by Frank Holmes, reporter

With President Donald Trump just capping his first 200 days in office in high-gear, the 2028 presidential election may seem like a lifetime away—but not if you want to run. And the establishments of both parties just got terrible news that they may have a few big names crashing the party.

The odds are growing that the 2028 presidential battle could come down to the unlikely choice of political strategist Steve Bannon and comedian Jon Stewart.

Yes, really. The title fight is all but set.

Although neither candidate is on anyone’s radar at the moment, insiders say a talk show host and comedian winning a presidential primary is no laughing matter.

Sources close to War Room host Steve Bannon say he’s considering throwing his hat in to the ring against Vice President J.D. Vance.

The 71-year-old talk show host and close Trump ally has quietly reached out to experts about campaign strategy and put out feelers about making his own 2028 bid, according to Elina Shirazi of The Daily Mail.

That’s a huge chance for Bannon, who told Politico in March the very question of launching a bid for the nation’s highest office seemed “too absurd” to answer.

But now he’s worried that Vance, whom Bannon helped shape into a beloved MAGA figure, won’t have the killer instinct necessary to complete the Trump Revolution.

Insiders reported that Bannon said of Vance that he “love(s) him…but Vance is not tough enough to run in 2028.”

A Bannon candidacy would divide the president’s MAGA coalition — but whatever Bannon thinks, the 2028 Republican presidential and vice presidential nominations may already be sewn up, thanks to a stray comment made by President Donald Trump.

During a press conference last week, Fox News reporter Peter Doocy told President Trump, “You could clear the entire Republican field right now: Do you agree that the heir-apparent to MAGA is J.D. Vance?”

“Well, I think most likely,” responded President Trump. “In all fairness, he’s the vice president.”

But the most popular Republican president in history didn’t seem to leave either half of the 2028 GOP ticket open to chance.

“And I think (Secretary of State) Marco (Rubio) is also somebody that maybe would get together with J.D. in some form

President Trump didn’t completely shut the door to other primary challengers, telling Doocy, “We have incredible people,” including “some of the people on the stage right here” in his Cabinet.

“So, it’s too early, obviously, to talk about it,” he said—but he couldn’t stop himself from adding J.D. Vance is “certainly … doing a great job. And he would be probably favored at this point.”

Polls show most of the Republican base agrees—and Vance is crushing his competition.

Polling from Emerson College in June showed Vance winning an outright majority of 2028 Republican primary voters—four times as many as backed Rubio.

No one else in the field came close.

Pollsters didn’t include Bannon, but by all estimates, he would enter the race as an underdog…but Americans know better than to ever count an underdog out of a big fight.

On the Democratic front, disgruntled Democratic voters have turned to Jon Stewart as a presidential candidate out of sheer despair.

“I would love to see Jon Stewart run in 2028,” said radio star Charlamagne Tha God recently.

The former Daily Show host is “a change agent coming from the outside that’s really going to shake things up,” he told Fox News host Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law, on July 27.

Charlamagne did not leave the veep slot up for grabs, either: He wants Stewart to tap CBS Late Night host Stephen Colbert.

“Colbert’s not gonna have a job. He’s not working,” joked Charlamagne.

As crazy as “Stewart for President” sounds, he’s already getting huge support in a wide-open party.

The “Draft Jon Stewart 2028” social media account on X has 16,000 followers.

“Stewart has also been very active in supporting veterans exposed to toxins, having played a key role in getting the PACT Act passed,” wrote media critic Joe Concha at The Washington Examiner. “Agree or disagree with him, he has an authenticity gene that others, most notably Newsom, Buttigieg, Ocasio-Cortez, and Harris, lack.”

For decades, elections have proved celebrity can be a powerful asset for a politician.

Saturday Night Live writer Al Franken won a (hotly contested) U.S. Senate race in Minnesota and got reelected before resigning in disgrace.

One of the stars of the 1980s TV show The Love Boat, Fred Gandy, got elected to two terms as a congressman from Iowa.

Ben Jones, who played “Cooter” on The Dukes of Hazzard, served two terms in the U.S. House as a Georgia Democrat—before losing in a redrawn district to Newt Gingrich.

There were also stints in politics from stars as renowned as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fred Thompson, and Clint Eastwood.

And President Trump starred in The Apprentice before becoming the second actor to serve two terms in the White House.

Besides, who else do the Democrats have?

Polls continue to show the front runner for the 2028 Democratic nomination is the failed 2024 nominee, Kamala Harris.

Harris, who blew $1 billion in her 107-day-long bid for the presidency last fall, has become so toxic with her own party base that she decided not to run for governor of California.

Recent polling from RacetotheWH, released on August 4, shows the former vice president has dropped 14 points in the polls since March—sinking to just 21 percent.

Meanwhile, former Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and bartender-turned-Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez each earned between 12 and 17 percent of Democrats’ support.

Without a clear front runner and polls showing only about one in every four voters has a positive view of the party, the Democratic Party’s future is up for grabs. Jon Stewart may have just the gripping campaign style to become a real contender in three years.

Then, the War Room will really start humming.

Who do you think the Republicans and Democrats will nominate in 2028?

About the Author

Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”