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This is why Democrats will keep losing. Newsom stands up for the rich, while Bernie stands up for the rest of us. In the end, the DNC will choose Newsom as their candidate.
...and that's how we'll get JD Vance for president in 2028.
Vance doesn’t have a chance bro, don’t worry about that.
Tucker Carlson and MTG, however…look out for those two. If/when the DNC anoint Newsom, they will join the race to trounce him.
Tucker, maybe, but not MTG. They would never vote for a woman. She might menstruate all over the nukes or something. I forget their exact reasoning.
The DNC can nudge the scales, but ultimately primary voters decide who is the candidate. Gavin Newsom just shot himself in the foot.
As far as I can tell the DNC basically decides who will be on the ballots for the primaries. (It's not directly, but without them a candidate needs to run 50 well funded campaigns simultaneously)
Of course write-ins exist, but are not viable.
Its insane to me that you can look at every democrat primary in my lifetime and come to this conclusion.
If they have a primary, and even then they discriminate against candidates who aren’t part of the establishment.
This is true. But it also means we all need to get our shit together this time, and actually show up.