I want someone who doesn’t seek approval from conservatives. She can fuck off and collect speakers fees for the rest of her life for all I care.
She would still be better than Newsom. That’s a pretty low bar though.
Do we know he’s going to run as a Democrat? Seems like someone who was a Democrat wouldn’t initiate their podcast with TPUSA and railing against trans people.
He’s term limited, so won’t be governor again.
He wants to run for president.
California deserves someone that represents them for once, not another neoliberal who will always move as far right as they can get away with.
California is neoliberal with a thin veneer of progressivism painted on by leftist at a thickness that chips constantly in most places.
I will be sleepless for months, in anticipation of this momentous decision.
WTF? Aren’t there other people that can become president or governor? In the case of Trump rocks and organic molecules?
Harris fucked us with Trump, and now she’s trying to fuck us again by losing to another maga retard.
Harris, you are a fucking loser, we don’t want you.
Enjoy your rump!
Isn’t it obvious? Harris is running for Governor, because Newsom is running for President.
Which will be hilarious if Trump Jr. also runs for President, because his (former) long-time fiancee was also Newsom’s ex-wife. Kimberly Guilfoyle will be hitting the interview circuit big-time as the ex-partner of both candidates.
Newsome just launched a podcast and glazed the fuck out of his first guest: Charlie Kirk
No fucking WAY that guy needs to be president
Never heard that before… Glazed. Is it something sexual?
Yeah, kinda? It’s a metaphor for just absolutely talking someone or something up incessantly. Basically just cumming all over the place about them. Similar to “riding”, in that regard.
Glazed in a good way or bad way?
Newsome doesn’t believe trans athletes who went through male puberty should play with people who haven’t
Getting my popcorn ready.
The Eskimo Brothers showdown.
No thanks, I’d like an actual progressive for once.
Yeah… Harris was an OK option for president given the state of national politics. But California can do far better.
Good luck with that. The Democrats have sold out to the rich and corporations
Which candidate will she not be in that election?
The winner in the general election will almost certainly be a Democrat, but California has an open, top-two primary. If left-leaning voters can unite behind a second Democratic candidate, and Republican voters split their votes between two or more candidates, it’s plausible that the general election could come down to Harris and a second Democrat to her left.
Republicans who have already demonized Harris after the 2024 campaign might then vote for the other Democrat, just on the basis of their negative view of Harris—so Harris being in the race could swing the election further to the left.
Harris didn’t even get 1/2 of 1% of the popular vote in either of the two states she primaried in for 2020. Still she somehow became the VP and eventually the presumptive presidential nominee of 2024.
I feel like this is worth reminding people.
The VP is just whoever the President picks. How many votes in the primary did JD Vance get?
The reminder is due to the fact that she never should have been the candidate in 2024 in the first place. She was not even in the top 5 in 2020. She didn’t do anything during her time as VP that made up for that gap. She was pushed in because the folks above her were two leftists, a gay man, and a rich DINO.
I don’t know that she would win California and if California goes to a Republican governor that takes away one of the handful of hail mary possible counter balances to Trump right now in a possible secession action. Right now if Trump attacked Mexico and Canada it isnt unreasonable to think some states would actively refuse to support the action but if California or New York were not both states to support it then it would be meaningless.
Yeah but she was a sitting senator so she was in the club. She was a black woman so she ticked the right boxes to balance out Bidens white man. And she was a prosecutor who worked well with the police so she countered the defund the police message thay centrist dems were sure would sink them.
She was a very very logical choice for Biden’s VP.
She also criticized Biden during the primaries.
She absolutely hesitated to comment on continuing to back the war on Gaza. She played by the script but it gave me the impression that she wasn’t on board when she paused and gave a vague answer instead. That’s when I felt like she would’ve departed from Biden’s legacy but was looking for a better moment to do it, but that’s only my interpretation.
That would be fantastic I would vote for her.
Oh jfc don’t. When you blow an election this hard you need to just go away.
californian here. i hope she portrays being more progressive than she did in her presidential campaign. she seems very politically conservative for wanting the governorship here.
I mean, your current governor just invited Charlie Kirk on his podcast to bash trans people together, and I haven’t read that he’s going to be forced out of office in disgrace, so…
I mean he already can’t run again because of term limits, so nobody needs to force him out of office.
Oh cool, so in your last term you can just do whatever you want and it’s all good?
I literally did not say that.
Do you think “force out of office” means passively wait until the next election where you then defeat them at the ballot box?
No, but then what does it mean? You literally can’t remove him until his term ends.
What? Do you base your “literally” statements on just gut feelings?
There are multiple ways a governor of California can be removed from office. There was literally already a recall election against this governor, there’s also impeachment, and good old fashion pressure to resign from the public and leadership.
She’s always seemed very politically flexible to me.
As long as you’re the one paying her you can make her say whatever you want.
That’s not a good thing. What America needs is strong leaders with convictions, not more suits.
In retrospect yes, my comment could be seen as a positive. That wasn’t my intent.
This comes off very bad for her. Who wants a candidate that isn’t entirely committed or interested in the office they might run for?
She seems both qualified for the job and motivated to stand up to the Trump administration’s aggression, both of which are important qualities in a leader of a US state that happens to be the world’s 5th largest economy.
EDIT:
For those who downvoted, perhaps you could use your words to explain what you disagree with in my comment, and why? I don’t know Kamala Harris all that well, so if there’s something important that I’m missing, I would like to know about it. A downvote doesn’t help anyone.
I downvoted mainly because nothing you posted is true
We need a leader that will advocate for our economic class. That’s not her.
Her disastrous campaign is what allowed Trump 2 to happen. How she ran her campaign (or allowed the DNC to steamroll her, same difference) is what’s wrong with her.
Italian here.
Why her campaign went wrong?
She started off aggressively attacking Trump and portraying him and Vance as weirdos. It was working and her numbers quickly went up.
Then she let the DNC take control of her campaign (the DNC is the main organization for the Democratic party). She stopped the attacks and started acting like a typical establishment empty suit Dem, which culminated in her saying that she’d change nothing from Biden (who had a 38% approval rating). She did this while also campaigning with Liz Cheney who is a very conservative anti-Trump Republican.
They basically took Dem voters for granted and tried to peel off Trump voters while saying she would be just like Joe Biden, who Trump voters and a majority of independents despise. It was an idiotic strategy
She started off aggressively attacking Trump and portraying him and Vance as weirdos.
More importantly she promised progressive economic policy. She had stuff like a wealth tax on the books, for example. When the DNC took over she started abandoning or watering down those policies and focusing exclusively on Trump (though her attacks on him were much more like an empty suit dem).
Thx.
It seems to me dems didn’t cared about voting for Harris. Only 64% voted and Trump won with a 23% of the population, really not much.
International relations standpoint aside, she offered no benefits or relief to the economic woes of the working class other than telling them to suck it up because everything’s fine. She ignored progressives in a pathetic attempt at currying favor with the likes of Liz fucking Cheney because she thinks conservatives would actually pick a Democrat over literally any Republican candidate. Everything about her screamed corporatism, the status quo of deadlocked improvements in Congress, and a lack of willingness to meaningfully change things for the better.
She is the quintessential establishment Democrat who would rather campaign for fundraisers than actually act on meaningful legislation. Despite all these (and many more) flaws, I voted for her as she was the only meaningful opposition the DNC could regurgitate out because Biden was too proud to stop his reelection campaign early on. For California governor, I’d want an actual progressive with the intent to make things better over her any day.
I’ve never seen her be anything but a nakedly power hungry, political hack. She’s tried to sell herself as both a progressive and conservative liberal, depending on who she’s talking to. I wouldn’t doubt if sher looses again, she’ll go Republican.
