Which 2028 Presidential Wannabe Had the Best Year?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Fetterman, in contrast, appears to be loving life -- gleefully speaking his mind and mocking political conventions, even when it upsets his supporters on the left.
60% : She started her first year as governor signing into law a slew of far-right legislation, including: a ban on transgender students using school restrooms that align with their gender identity, looser rules for hiring 14- and 15-year-olds, a ban on "obscene" material in public libraries with potential felony charges for librarians, vouchers for private and charter schools, and a ban on teachers discussing "gender identity, sexual orientation and sexual reproduction" in school before fifth grade.
46% : In 2023, Whitmer could boast that she moved state policy from conservative to liberal farther and faster than any other sitting governor in the country.
39% : And, after endorsing Trump for president, he managed to criticize DeSantis for Florida's new educational guidelines on teaching slavery without suffering backlash from the right.
34% : And even though she hesitated to endorse Trump at the start of the year -- reportedly provoking the former president's ire -- in November she traveled to DeSantis' home state and endorsed her former boss, avoiding a deep rift.
31% : But if Republicans four years from now want a conservative battleground state governor without tight ties to Trump, Georgia's Brian Kemp firmed up his position.
26% : With polls indicating Donald Trump is going to run the table of presidential primary contests, this year's crop of Republican candidates appears to be full of soon-to-be-forgotten Bobby Jindals.
25% : Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also endorsed Trump in November, capping off a reversal of fortune in his long-running cold war with DeSantis.
24% : Instead she took a side in the intraparty divide over foreign policy, forcefully rejected the neo-isolationist vision articulated on the debate stage by Vivek Ramaswamy and elsewhere by Trump.
19% : In national polling since August Haley has moved from about 3 to 11 percent -- not exactly a "surge" that threatens Trump, but a partial consolidation of the minority anti-Trump faction in the GOP.
16% : He's working with Louisiana's John Kennedy to extend Biden's $35 monthly cap on insulin costs beyond Medicare to private insurers, with North Carolina's Thom Tillis to help more orchard owners receive federal relief when trees are damaged in natural disasters, and with Alaska's Lisa Murkowski to fully fund housing costs for military families.
14% : That relatively gentle moniker came before Vance disturbingly wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland and asked if the Justice Department would "open an investigation" into a Washington Post columnist who argued Trump would bring about a dictatorship if elected president again.
13% : Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin charged her with hypocrisy for not denouncing Donald Trump for his various brushes with antisemitism.
10% : Capping the year by endorsing Trump sure looks like Abbott's final revenge on DeSantis and a way to position himself for 2028.
7% : Moreover, Kemp rejected calls from Trump loyalists to call the state legislature into special session and impeach Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for indicting Trump over his effort to overturn the election in Georgia.

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