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Don’t run Newsom. Run AOC
It'll be Harris all over again. JD sucks but in no way would I be enthusiastic about voting for Newsom.
Anyone but Newsom. Please.
I'd prefer him over Harris I think, but wouldn't be very happy with either
So far I think he’s better than Hillary Clinton. I also don’t really know what he stands for.
He stands for corporations as far as I can tell. Occasionally he is on the right side of things, seemingly on accident.
In what way, though? Everybody stands for corporations in some way.
He'll nit support cost of living, depressed wages, and will continue to offer tax breaks to the wealthy. Maybe he throws LGB people a bone, but he will absolutely make sure trans people get shafted. He's a corporate Dem when what the Dems actually need to be doing to helping working people.
Is this all based on things he’s actually done as a governor or proposed? Or just the vibes he puts out?
As for giving trans people the shaft. I think this is just exaggerations people make online. He came out against trans athletes joining sports of their gender. But that’s an issue 66% of Americans agree with. It hardly means he doesn’t support trans people.
The trans issue shows he's not up for the challenge. If he can't stay on message and has to spread disinformation to win then he is only going to sweep MAGA under the rug instead of addressing their lies head on.
What disinformation did he spread? Maybe I missed that. He actually calls Charlie Kirk out for disinformation he was spreading.
He’s also brought podcast bros onto his own podcast which is already a weird thing for my politicians to be doing while elected as an official representative.
Times are changing. The podcast bros are affecting politics, so is reasonable for a politician to talk to them. He’s not acting like them.
listen to him talk about the students that have been protesting the genocide, he casts it as antisemitic.
Was this on a podcast? Or somewhere else? I haven’t seen this.
Is this a case where he was calling out specific cases of antisemitism and people responded by claiming he was calling all protests antisemitic?
I'm talking about this bill in particular:
https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/10/school-antisemitism-bill-signed/
Then later he gets asked about the AIPAC money he receives and he responds "well that's interesting you ask that" as if the question itself is antisemitic. https://youtu.be/SB-C6QeNyHw
Everyone responding "at least he isn't as bad as that other corporate Democrat" is just sad.
I think there’s no way in hell Harris would win a democratic nomination. The stink left on her from losing to Trump will be very hard to overcome.
I think she'd be great. I'd vote for her if I could.
We need more good Senators.
Think she could win a democratic nomination? I think it’s going to be very hard for her to overcome that loss.
I think she'd slot into Schumer's slot nicely. If AOC doesn't grab it first.
NY is definitely not an easy state to win statewide elections. But I hope she does. She deserves a much bigger platform.
Edit: I hope she does. Somehow I said the opposite of what I meant.
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Not sure what this means, honestly. She hasn’t won a democratic primary yet, but has lost to a historically unpopular candidate. While also sharing the stage with conservatives. I just don’t think she’ll be able to shake that.
They do say that llms don't actually understand anything so that tracks
lol, ok.
I was not and would not be enthusiastic about voting for Harris - but I would vote for her.
I straight up would not vote for Newsom.
I think we have our answer.
It's AOC.
Democratic primary is going to be INTERESTING. God I hope we don’t fuck this up.
While I would love AOC, she would be the youngest by quite a bit. Plus, she probably needs to win something more than a house seat. It is great having a party leader that is so young.
The problem with the party leadership route is that party insiders are the only ones who get to vote on it, and when that's the electorate she can't even beat Gerry Nadler. If she can run in a race with real people voting on it I think she could beat anyone.
Why? Explain why.
Copy and pasting from my other comment
Trump never held office before being elected president. What he had was fame. Guess what AOC has in spades?
Integrity, respect of her constituency, and empathy.
So because she isn't in the hierarchy, too easy say less burn the hierarchy down. IDGAF about your perceived "uphill" battle if she has the words and is elected in the primaries full send.
Literally, Trump wasn't shit before and had a shitty first term and they re elected him.
The primary is the uphill battle. She’ll have my vote at all stages probably.
Run AOC.
Run a primary
Yeah, you're right, shit I forgot what those were.
This please...
Newsom is infinitely more likely to get elected in a national election unless we suddenly develop class consciousness.
Always saying centrist candidates are the only ones who can win and then running only centrist candidates is a self fulfilling prophecy that doesn't even have a good track record.
Remember when Harris was running, and everyone kept telling us that Leftists don't come out to vote? Remember them telling us that she should keep moving to the right, despite the fact that Leftists are way more popular?
Get ready for more of that with Newsome.
I don't remember anyone saying that, the general consensus seemed to be people criticizing her for embracing Liz Cheney and moving to the right.
If you don't remember anyone saying that, it's because you weren't paying attention.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/23/briefing/kamala-harris-convention-speech.html
Hell, search posts here for "leftists don't vote", and you'll find a lot of simps explaining that it's "akshually smart of her" to keep moving to the right.
It is also possible that the morons on this site who say dumb shit like that were on my block list for saying other dumb shit.
Or memories aren't perfect and I just don't remember every stupid thing people say.
But Newsom made funny Twitter posts.