Former Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Thursday a decision on whether to pursue the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination comes down to whether he thinks he can meet “both the challenge and the promise of tomorrow” and execute on it.

“I’m going to evaluate it. If I think I’ve got something to say that nobody else is going to say, and I’m going to be able to say it in a way that I think others don’t say it, I’ll make a decision,” Emanuel, who was the U.S. ambassador to Japan from 2022 to early 2025, told about 250 people at the City Club of Chicago. “If I have something I can say that hasn’t been said and the ability to get it done — not say it, not think it, not articulate it, but then execute it — if I think I can do that, I’ll do it. If I don’t, I won’t.”

Afterward, asked by the Tribune

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