The Ten Humans Most Likely to Be President in February 2025 (March 2023 Edition)

The second in an ongoing series.

Will Leitch
5 min readMar 14, 2023

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The first votes for President of the United States will take place 10 months from now, in Iowa, where Republican voters (but not Democratic voters) will let their voices be heard. Ten months ago is a very short amount of time. Ten months ago was the Uvalde shooting. Does that seem like 10 months ago? It will be here before you realize it.

This is to say: The 2024 Presidential campaign, like it or not, is well underway. So one must start paying attention. Thus, we continue our feature: Presidential Power Rankings. These will run monthly. A lot can happen in a month.

This is not a ranking of my favorite candidates, or the ones who have the most current momentum. It is simply a ranking of the 10 people most likely to be the President in February 2025 — after the next election.

Here’s the inaugural top 10. We’ll see you again on these in a month.

10. Marianne Williamson (last month: Unranked). There are only four announced candidates for President, and Williamson is one of them, so, for surely only this one month, she gets to make the list. (The other candidate to announce this month gets a nod next on this list as well.) You may remember Williamson running…

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Will Leitch

Author of six books, including “How Lucky” and "The Time Has Come." NYMag/MLB.. Founder, Deadspin. https://williamfleitch.substack.com