It's Thursday, April 16th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show that already hated SantaCon.
You know, that yearly tradition where the drunkest people you have ever met do a bar crawl
dressed like Santa purportedly for charity.
But it turns out the founder of SantaCon allegedly stole at least $1.5 million
of what the event raised over the last five years.
My hatred has been confirmed.
On today's show, the Trump administration wishes the Pope would keep his mouth shut when it comes to issues of,
humanity.
And Senate Majority Leader John Thune wants to put Department of Homeland Security legislation on a diet.
But let's start with the 2028 presidential election.
Actually, I want to go back in time a little bit to 2006.
It was a simpler age.
Twitter had just launched.
I was about to start my sophomore year of college, and George W. Bush was a very unpopular president.
The 2008 presidential election was still two years away,
but just like now, reporters and pundits were starting to talk about potential Democratic frontrunners.
According to a July 2006 Marist poll, the frontrunners were then-New York Democratic Senator Hillary Clinton,
former Vice President Al Gore, and disgraced former North Carolina Senator John Edwards.
In fact, in 2007, Clinton was treated by pundits as the near-certain Democratic nominee for president.