Who is going to be next presidential candidate for democrats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Andy Bashear would be my choice, and then Gretchen Whitmer

no one from the coasts, no one of color, no one with AIPAC issues.

I’m from Michigan. Used to like her but her childish not to mention insulting Trump-like video antics (pre-Trump 2.0) make her a no-go.

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Anonymous wrote:Just give all these racist misogynists the white male they need and let's be done with it. They'd rather vote for an immoral white man than any minority woman. We just need to acknowledge that's where a third of Americans are right now. Let's "meet them where they are".

I think 90 percent of Americans were scared off by DEI and its impact on jobs. The way it was implemented gave racial and gender benefits to certain groups and made it very difficult for other groups to compete for jobs. So there’s a wariness of electing a black woman for president today. The assumption being that DEI hiring will be back. It’s not fair, but Democrats really messed up during the Biden years. Which is another reason why Democrats struggle with trust even after the Trump disaster.

Turn off Fox. Do you seriously want to have to compete for jobs and everything else as a minority person or an immigrant or a trans person or a queer person? I'm sure you really don't unless you have to and there's good reason for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems likely midterms will be terrible for Republicans. They'll lose the House and probably the Senate. I think they will move quickly to the post-Trump era. They have to. And nothing good ever happens with those who choose to associate with Trump. Vance and Little Marco will go down with the ship.

Democrats should be concerned about other candidates. I think Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis are going to run. I think MJT is going to run. Perhaps Glenn Youngkin and Tim Scott. Maybe Tucker Carlson.

None of these people are damaged by the Trump brand. 2028 is not going to be the election cakewalk that most Democrats think it's going to be. The Democratic brand remains in the gutter. It'll be a real race. Which is why getting a good candidate who can win the battleground states is so important.

Bold are both false. Let’s take a look at the candidates you listed as concerning to Dems.

Brian Kemp isn’t running. His refusal to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia has killed any chance and he knows it. Can’t find the quote, but claims he’s not interested in being a career politician and values time with his family after two terms as governor. He passed on a 2026 Senate run. Proof that he’s tapped out. Q

Ron DeSantis is term-limited and leaves office in January 2027. Is he going to miraculously transform into brains, brawn, and balls? His 2024 campaign was awful and embarrassing. Zero charisma. Just flat.

He stole $35 million in taxpayer money that funded child welfare and Floridians in significant need. Instead, he paid political consultants, lawyers and funded thousands of advertisements to brainwash voters and win elections.

He’s still fighting the courts on 5 legal issues and 1 for fun
1. Immigration
2. Alligator Alcatraz
3. Misuse of funds diverting millions of dollars to block opposing ballot initiatives
4. “Don't Say Gay” law/Disney
5. Legislative defiance
6. White rubber rain boots (anyone notice the boots on the wrong feet)

MTG history is an absolute disaster. 90% of her time in office was spent as a conspiracy theorist. She found the right moment to do a short stint revenge tour against Trump because he blocked her from pursuing a Senate seat in Georgia. Hopped on the Epstein victim bandwagon to regain relevancy. She trashed Trump for a hot minute. She resigned before he could fire her. MAGA won’t vote for a traitor.

Glenn Younkin failed to secure key legislative victories in his own state. He won in 2021, but lost the Virginia House of Delegates. He’ll be an awful arbiter at repairing relationships with our allies. This is a big effing deal! He’s a local yokel.

Tim Scott ran his 2024 campaign willy nilly. Did he know the assignment? He withdrew fairly early on.

Tucker Carlson has no political experience. He was a Fox MSM mouthpiece a second ago. Flipped on Trump just recently. He loses MAGA on the traitor platform. Plus he’s a Chad.

None of them hold a candle to the likes of Harris, Ossoff, Buttigieg, Murphy, Newsom, AOC, Pritzker, Kelly, Beshar, and more for sure…

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Anonymous wrote:I will never ever vote for Kamala Harris. Can’t stand her

Who cares. Would she be a good president is the question. And she would.

No. She is a blowhard with no original ideas and no real values other than self promotion. She threw Biden under the bus and wrote a book instead of stepping up and doing anything. I have never heard her say anything but boring platitudes.

Fwiw I voted for her.

I don’t care if she’s boring, I don’t care if she has original ideas. I care that she isn’t the current disaster we have in the White House.

Of course she’d be better than him. My 8 year old would be too. And I’d vote for her if I had to. But we don’t need to. She lost the suckiest candidate ever. She’s done. And it’s not Biden. It’s her.

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To clarify…you make a fair point about Kelly’s intelligence. However, he lacks integrity in that he’s essentially a cheerleader for gun control. That’s likely related to his wife’s situation, but I can’t support someone who’d try to limit firearms rights (e.g., most Ds), just as I’d never support anyone who’d try to infringe on reproductive rights (e.g., most Rs).
As to my larger point, I stand by my assertion that no candidate from 2016 forward has been worthy of the office. They were all unfit, albeit for vastly different reasons.
I’m fairly certain that I’m not the only person on DCUM who hears from family members or friends living abroad how international respect for US political figures has significantly declined over the past decade.

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Y’all, there’s nobody who is going to hit all the points — charismatic *and* not owned by big money *and* can play in Peoria *and* who hadn’t done some dumb stuff in the past *and* is from the right geographic region *and* who is the exact-right balance of change-maker and moderate, scruples and balls, vision and calm reassurance.

All we have to choose from are human beings. We are going to be disappointed in some way no matter who it is. That doesn’t mean they’re a bad candidate, it is simply the particular way they happen to be flawed.

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Anonymous wrote:I will never ever vote for Kamala Harris. Can’t stand her

Who cares. Would she be a good president is the question. And she would.

No. She is a blowhard with no original ideas and no real values other than self promotion. She threw Biden under the bus and wrote a book instead of stepping up and doing anything. I have never heard her say anything but boring platitudes.

Fwiw I voted for her.

I don’t care if she’s boring, I don’t care if she has original ideas. I care that she isn’t the current disaster we have in the White House.

Of course she’d be better than him. My 8 year old would be too. And I’d vote for her if I had to. But we don’t need to. She lost the suckiest candidate ever. She’s done. And it’s not Biden. It’s her.

Being the VP of one of our most unpopular presidents ever is the primary reason why she lost to such a historically weak opponent in 2024 so yes, Biden very much so played a role in the 2024 outcome. Harris has no serious political career going forward and the same goes for Pence and Vance for the same reason. Their parties will be forfeiting an election if they nominated one of them.

[Anonymous]

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

This guy.

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The ONLY question that matters is:

Will independents and voters in swing states vote for this person?

We can debate candidate policies and experience like it’s a normal election of the past but we need to prioritize winning the election. Otherwise, the batsh*t crazies remain in control.

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Anonymous wrote:Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

This guy.

Yes, I’m sure he’s never been influenced by a donor ever in his life. Politics is so lame. SMH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It seems likely midterms will be terrible for Republicans. They'll lose the House and probably the Senate. I think they will move quickly to the post-Trump era. They have to. And nothing good ever happens with those who choose to associate with Trump. Vance and Little Marco will go down with the ship.

Democrats should be concerned about other candidates. I think Brian Kemp and Ron DeSantis are going to run. I think MJT is going to run. Perhaps Glenn Youngkin and Tim Scott. Maybe Tucker Carlson.

None of these people are damaged by the Trump brand. 2028 is not going to be the election cakewalk that most Democrats think it's going to be. The Democratic brand remains in the gutter. It'll be a real race. Which is why getting a good candidate who can win the battleground states is so important.

The Democratic brand is NOT in the gutter. The party and Dem leadership haven’t gotten the memo but individual candidates are outraising Rs by a mile. Voters want a strong candidate who will hold the Trump regime accountable. They will not go for a mealy mouth tinkering around the edges candidate. It could be anyone between Spanberger to AOC as long as the candidate vows to undo the damage and send the criminals away in handcuffs.

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Anonymous wrote:The next presidential candidate has to be someone that is right under our noses. Someone nobody is talking about but highly capable. Someone the media has no time to attack. Someone with integrity and lack of celebrity.

This is how Mamdani won.

The mainstream press is not our friends. They are part of large corporations and belong to the oligarchs.

The next presidential candidate has to be in stealth mode right now or the corporate media will destroy them.

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Anonymous wrote:Just give all these racist misogynists the white male they need and let's be done with it. They'd rather vote for an immoral white man than any minority woman. We just need to acknowledge that's where a third of Americans are right now. Let's "meet them where they are".

I think 90 percent of Americans were scared off by DEI and its impact on jobs. The way it was implemented gave racial and gender benefits to certain groups and made it very difficult for other groups to compete for jobs. So there’s a wariness of electing a black woman for president today. The assumption being that DEI hiring will be back. It’s not fair, but Democrats really messed up during the Biden years. Which is another reason why Democrats struggle with trust even after the Trump disaster.

Turn off Fox. Do you seriously want to have to compete for jobs and everything else as a minority person or an immigrant or a trans person or a queer person? I'm sure you really don't unless you have to and there's good reason for that.

I think the problem occurs when you make broad generalizations like that. Discrimination for those groups really depends. In DC an older white man will often be overlooked for a black person for example. In Montgomery County Maryland an immigrant can easily find work. Places like Missouri do need policies that support minorities in a much different way than NYC or DC.

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I’m very progressive and I will vote for anyone who is the eventual Dem nominee IF they promise to use all levers of power to hold the Trump and members of his regime accountable, and to make serious systemic changes. I’m not sure what I’ll do if they promise to move on. I doubt any Dem will run with that.

The youth in Hungary voted for Magyar fully expecting him to be far to the right of them on policy. They understood the moment. I’m following their lead. Will I wish for someone with progressive policies? Yes. But my deal breaker is swiftly holding the regime to account. Nothing else matters.