In a battle between two Californians considering Democratic runs for president in 2028, Gov. Gavin Newsom holds a slight edge over former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a new poll.
The poll, conducted by Politico and The Citrin Center public opinion firm, found Newsom is the top choice of 25% of California’s Democratic voters in the 2028 Democratic primary, leading all prospective candidates including Harris, the 2024 Democratic nominee, who is supported by 19% of the state’s Democrats.
The two high-profile Californians are followed in the poll by former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg (13%), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (10%), Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (4%) and New Jersey U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (4%).
A sack of potatoes tops Kamala Harris. She dropped out in 2020 because she would not pass the first round.
I don’t want newsom to run
Not Kamala. Democrats just refuse to learn fucking anything don’t they
I also don’t want Kamala to run either
I think we should look to outside talent. The lettuce that outlasted Liz Truss is available and probably more personable despite several years of decomposition.
Democrats is somehow always able to find worse candidates than the last one…
An Ocasio-Cortez / Walz ticket would be a dream come true. I believe Newsom is too much of a neoliberal and opportunist to actually begin to revert the US into a progressive state, and would ultimately cause someone like DeSantis to be elected afterwards.
Waltz/AOC would have a much better chance of success since America is still pretty sexist.
Dems should prove thsy by actually allowing a decent woman being the candidate
I am well aware. But my dream is AOC / Walz for 2 terms, then Walz and his VP pick
“Okay, we’ve had a 40 year old president now. Time to switch back to someone pushing 70.”
Walz/AOC would also work
I just vomited a lot a bit…
Edit: honestly I’ve been having this reaction a lot when hearing about neo liberals and fascists. The first part of your comment is my dream and the last part is feeling like the nightmare reality.
Lol at all this cute discussion like there’s going to be a 2028 election…
At the current rate things are going it’s unlikely we’ll have 2026 mid-terms.
The midterms will happen but it’s gonna be all gerrymandered. 2028, hah yeah… not counting on that
Newsom can top all the Democrats he wants, i am still not going to support him.
Phrasing!
He can bottom them for all I care
His ability to match Trumpian trolling style needs to be picked up by someone new, or else we should really get behind this guy at least he is not literally a child raping Russian asset sent to destroy America JFC it’s hard to be picky here
Great, so you are another fascist enabler. You dont need to like his policies but if he is the person to stop the fascist and you dont support him or even vote for him you are on the side of the fascists.
Newsom is fascist, how you gonna call someone a fascism enabler when they oppose a fascist??
Newsome is the person that will let facists win again
Supporting the Democrats is supporting fascist enablers. Well they had power. They gave up two supreme Court pics. They were more than happy to rally behind a false immigration debate, they avoided the prosecution of actual criminals. Just assuming that they would go away, they failed to codify roe v. Wade in law. The Democrats have basically for the last 50 years done. Almost nothing short of handover power and make a really crappy healthcare system. Slightly less crappy temporarily.
We’re here now because they didn’t have the backbone to fight fascists.
You dont need to like his policies
That’s just it: his policies are how he governs. Awful Neoliberal policies devastating working people to the point that most can barely afford to live is (along with billionaire-owned yellow media) how things got bad enough for a resurgence of fascism.
That being said, the Neoliberal style of campaigning where the vast majority of their messaging is aimed at converting the increasingly tiny sliver of a demographic that have voted GOP and would ever in a million years vote Dem while ignoring the leftmost two thirds of their own base is a losing strategy that lost to the most unqualified and repulsive presidential candidate in living memory if not ever. TWICE.
In conclusion: his policies (and the fact that he’s almost as corrupt as your average Republican) would make him an awful president, and the campaign strategy of the DNC that he’d doubtlessly go along with would make him likely to lose to someone even worse.
There’s no point engaging with this type of idiot.
They’re just disagreeable generally and completely incapable of understanding compromise.
I honestly can’t believe they haven’t learned the consequences of doing nothing when the bare minimum would have saved so many people.
I am left to believe that trump’s bot campaign is back in full force because frankly, I cannot believe someone can be this willfully ignorant.
Its the voters fault that the candidates are shit…
Yeah. I think they’re just young idealists, trying to signal their values on social media.
I don’t think Lemmy is much of a target for bots but I feel like we get the back scatter - actual users parroting the narrative they picked up elsewhere.
Fuuuuck the DNC. I really hope that people actually vote in the primaries, if they actually happen, and we don’t end up with another fucking corporate fellating Dem on the ticket for the general election. Then again, I don’t want to hear about the goddamn next presidential election when the mid-terms are next in line.
Can we do something like this for whoever ends up being the nominee? At this point I just want MAGAts to suffer and have their own shit shoved down their throats.
Can we do something like this for whoever ends up being the nominee?
That… does exactly nothing to solve the problems that led to the rise of MAGA. I mean hell, this is what allowed Trump to come to power in the first place. I get the appeal of “anything has to be better than this,” but kicking the can down the road will hurt more than it will help. Think of it this way: What will happen under Newsom that would result in fascism not coming back stronger than ever and why hasn’t that happened already?
Are those… real?!
I mean… that’s a pretty low bar, though, right? Kamala just set the world record for fastest time from hype to revulsion any politician has ever achieved and pulled her entire party along into the grave she dug herself.
What world are you living in?
Ok, why do you think she lost the general election and the popular vote then?
The world where people would rather live with a party of literal fucking nazis than sully themselves with anything less than their ideal.
Seeing as how Kamala has barely said a word in the last year, I think it is no surprise she’s sliding on the popularity scale. I’m guessing she’s planning on sliding into obscurity. Hope she proves otherwise.
Hope she proves otherwise.
I’m hoping she doesn’t. Harris has done nothing of value to the American people, and in fact treated her own base with such contempt that she lost to Donald fucking Trump. She and her ilk should all fuck off to the other side of the moon and let people with something resembling principles take the lead.
