re: Dems/Lefties: Honest Assessment:Who's On Your Bench w/Skillset to Challenge Vance in 2028?

Silly MAGA memes aren't going to matter in a primary.

If the party picks Shapiro, he's going to win the primary unless Bernie runs and can hold it together (running on his economic platform that Trump is stealing, ironically). There aren't any legit far left options who can oust the party's chosen winner other than Bernie. AOC ain't it.

No, DeSantis did not have to run in 2024. 2028 would've been much better for him as a successful 2-term Governor of Florida, although the emergence of Vance would have almost certainly made him an underdog. Yet, still a much better scenario than committing political suicide in 2024.

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Whitmer, Shapiro, Beshear, etc.

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1) Whitmer - Did you see Gretchen in the White House with Trump last week? She looked like a scared puppy. At one point, she was even holding up some sort of folder to hide her face. Definitely not ready for prime time.

2) Shapiro - The Democrat base has a strong anti-Semitic contingent. Could he even win the nomination? He at least comes from a strategic state.

3) Beshear - I've wondered about him, but he's extremely low-profile. As of today, I'm not even sure I could pick him out of a police lineup. Plus, the Democrat Party is controlled by coastal elites. Are they going to support some guy from Kentucky?

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They'll nominate whoever goes in the hardest on trannies, abortion, and racism. Those are their litmus tests. I'm not sure if their hard left base will accept a moderate.

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Great answer. That's the Democrat Party's persona in a nutshell.

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"Silly MAGA Memes" has nothing to do with the fact that a significant portion of the Democrat Party base is anti-Jewish

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No it has everything to do with it because all you're doing is describing the meme that doesn't reflect reality

Now the Democrats are anti-Zionist for sure. They have a lot of problems with Israel the country and how it operates for sure. That's not anti-Semitism though.

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"We stand with Israel" speech after 10/7, many in his own Administration, which was basically filled with pro-Obama types, were ready to crucify him.

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Yes because many of them are anti-israel and it's policies and actions. That has nothing to do with anti-semitism

It seems like the most viable candidates will come out of a Governor's mansion, because they can sell that as a fresh voice and a new start.
Basically all the people already mentioned but I'd add Pritzker and Murphy as long shots, although Pritzker has NO chance but he'll run because ego.

Don't sleep on Newsome. I know a lot of people write him off but he has 2 years to whitewash his CA record.

I'd also add Wes Moore. Don't sleep on Wes Moore!!

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Why he decided to co-opt the far left faction once he was in office, IDK

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He was mentally compromised

Trump will run again in 2028.

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ironically, Biden was the establishment moderate in the 2020 Democrat primaries compared to he populist wing in Bernie and Elizabeth Warren and far left Kamala

Why he decided to co-opt the far left faction once he was in office, IDK

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Good point. Knowing Biden, he probably just wanted to collect his $$$ so he gladly went along with where the majority of hard-core Democrats are these days.

Fix the elections to greatly reduce the fraud and none of the dems have a chance without another Great Depression like event

They would have a chance if they chose Shapiro... but there's too much hate of the Jews in the lefty party.

Valero and Phillips 66 announced the closing of 2 refineries in California this morning. Newsome can't run from that shite....only chance for him, as Gaetz so aptly put it, is he will have to suck a lot of dicks.