I mean you can cross off Prtizker too; don't get me wrong, I don't hate him anywhere as much as Gavin Newsom, but being rich is gonna be a MASSIVE liability in this next election cycle. We're probably two elections past "let's elect the billionaire with a heart."
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Slotkin will not win, her campaign is essentially a joke in that she thinks there's a base for her out there, and there isn't, she's not even going to carry Michigan because we KNOW she's dogshit. The only person who thinks Slotkin is legitimately running for president is Elissa Slotkin.
Koublachar taking herself out of the run by going for Gov of Minny (which will suck, she's far right of Walz).
So it's gonna be Newsom against 5 people left of him. The DNC will pick Newsom. Which is disaster
Maaybe, Whitmer. Her advantage is that she's a lot like Gavin Newsom politically, but people still think she's lefter than she is.
But given that Dem lanyards have told themselves they lost 2024 in part because "woman" - I don't like Big Gretch's chances of surviving the reactionary donor interview round.
@AnarchoNinaWrites
The saddest part about about people pushing the, "you guys just wouldn't vote for a black woman" narrative is that they basically helped ensure that the DNC wouldn't be running another one any time soon. Way to Monkey's Paw that into being.
@TheGreatLlama I feel this wouldn't be an issue if the DNC didn't thumb the scale on their own presidential primaries.
I don't genuinely believe Americans won't elect a Black woman. I believe that's what the guys rigging the primaries and using institutional power to pick the candidate before we even vote believe. Or at least that's part of their excuse for foisting Newsom on the base.
I think tho, it's wrong. If Harris had run Biden's 2020 campaign, I believe she wins despite short runway.
@AnarchoNinaWrites Are they really reading the room tho?
A bored failson could emerge from the Cheetos cave with any number of plausible AI things connecting a male candidate to Epstein.
Running a woman is a better hedge against any real or imagined relationship with Epstein. Men are basically poison right now.
@YakyuNightOwl I mean I don't think they're right about ANY of their reactionary identity assumptions.
I don't think Harris lost because she's a Black woman; I think she lost because she ran as George W Bush in a skirt.
But I have MANY disagreements with the "known priors" (read: assumptions) the rich Dem donors and their DNC minions live by.
I see no reason to nominate a candidate because they're "not a woman" nor any reason a woman can't be President. Honest to god truth here.
@AnarchoNinaWrites the kingmakers can lose this one I think, but the problem is how much do Dem primary voters trust the media? concerning.
I may be an uninformed idiot... Is Pritzker rolling in monies?
Strike that...
Just looked it up... How the fuck did I not know the man was a Hyatt 'heir'?
FUUUUUUCK. Fuck this party.
@401matthall Pretty sure someone in his family just got Epstein Files exposed too.
I mean... It's _really_ hard to have that much wealth and not have a skewed sense of propriety, morals, right/wrong, etc.
Like, it's literally a mental health condition, methinks.
In fact, it may have be _you_ that said something like that recently. Everything is a blur anymore.
@401matthall I've said it, but I can hardly claim it as an original thought - we've done actually studies that show whether through nature, or nurture, rich people tend to be like actual sociopaths. I wish I were making that up.