Despite being desperate to put Biden behind them, Democrats can’t do it. Both Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg are routinely topping Democratic primary polling, and both are defined by Biden. Last Thursday, May 28, two Democratic 2028 presidential polls came out. In a Big Data Poll (taken May 24-27), Kamala Harris led by 13 percentage points. In Emerson College Polling (taken May 23-25), Pete Buttigieg led by 2 percentage points. Let the irony of these results sink in. These people lost to Biden among Democrats in 2020, and then Democrats pushed out Biden in 2024. (RELATED: Let’s Remember the Democrats’ Lies) The DNC’s recent botched release of its ultimately disavowed report on Democrats’ 2024 roadkill of a campaign served to inflame the entire party. However, there was one point of unifying agreement: The party needs to put 2024 behind them. This is understandable; 2024 saw them outspend Republicans by almost $1 billion and lose the popular vote for the first time in 20 years. Skip back to last Thursday’s poll results, and the two highest political qualifications of the people topping each poll were having served in the failed Biden administration. This is where they are turning for their 2028 front-runners? This is not a partisan verdict, but the American people’s opinion from November 2024. Reelection campaigns are always a referendum on the party holding power. Democrats held the presidency in 2024. Democrats lost the referendum on their time in the White House by over 2 million popular votes, 86 electoral votes, and in every swing state. This is also the verdict of the DNC. You don’t have an autopsy unless someone died. And in 2024, what died was Kamala Harris and the Democrats’ campaign. And it is the verdict of Democrat leaders as well: former Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA), strategist James Carville, and many more. The Biden administration and November 2024 were unmitigated disasters for Democrats, yet now, coming on two years after the fact, this is where they are turning for their 2028 front-runners? Democrats want 2028 to be all about Donald Trump, even though he will not be on the ballot. Yet, these two early polls show that Democrats are considering putting Biden — or at least his surrogates — on the ballot. To take the irony a step further, consider what qualified both Harris and Buttigieg for their selection for the Biden administration. They both lost to Biden. Badly. Kamala Harris has been a national disaster for Democrats since throwing her hat into the 2020 Democratic primary chase: seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination, sharing the 2020 ticket, in the Biden–Harris administration for four years, as the 2024 Democratic nominee, and since leaving office. (RELATED: Kamala Harris’ Dangerous Brainstorm) Harris dropped out of the 2020 primary contest in 2019. Her campaign was derided. Once in office, she was again labeled as a failure as vice president. Only after Biden was forced out was she finagled in at the last minute — without primaries, without winning delegates, and with no chance that she would fail within her own party. Again. Pete Buttigieg was almost equally inept. He flamed out in 2020. He won a grand total of 21 delegates in the Democratic primaries, finishing fifth behind Biden, Sanders, Warren, and Bloomberg. Buttigieg was made secretary of the Department of Transportation for his efforts, hardly a top assignment. He held the position throughout the administration. Now: Name one thing he did. For that matter, name one former DOT secretary… of any administration. Buttigieg was a nonentity in a failed administration after having lost badly to Biden in the primaries: That’s his national resume. (RELATED: Pete Buttigieg: America’s Second Gay President?) Only Democrats could see such resumes as strengths. They want — and desperately need — to get past 2024 to win in 2028. Yet among their 2028 frontrunners are two architects of 2024. And what qualified them for their past administration service and their current 2028 aspirations? Losing to Biden. Just to make the chain of failure unmistakably clear: Democrats rejected Harris and Buttigieg in 2020, choosing Biden instead; both Harris and Buttigieg received places in a Biden administration, which the American people deemed to be a resounding failure; then, Democrats pushed Biden off their ticket in 2024. It’s like a nesting doll of failure, each enclosed within the next. The next presidential election is not until November 2028. Two and a half years is a long time. However, Democrats’ fascination with Harris and Buttigieg shows they have an even longer way to go. And that they have no clue as to how to get there. READ MORE from J.T. Young: The Left Don’t Love Leo (They Simply Hate Trump) May Day or Mayday in Chicago? America’s Might Is on Display in Iran J.T. Young is the author of the book Unprecedented Assault: How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left, from RealClear Publishing. Follow him on Substack.