Gavin Newsom knows the popular image of him is of a smooth talker with slicked-back hair, the wealthy liberal who co-owns a vineyard.
He knows, regarding the presidential ambitions he’s hardly hiding, that the biggest question he would face out of the gate is whether he could sell Americans on wanting California to represent their future rather than seeing it as the place where the wackiest liberal dreams go to run wild.
The redistricting fight that Newsom and the state legislature are launching Monday could, he and his inner circle believe, give him all the rebuttals he needs.
I’ve vote against him in a primary, but will vote for him if the other option is whatever the GOP is doing today.
Yep. Voting in the primary AND general elections, every other year, is the bare minimum for democratic participation. Not once every four years.
No? Vote in your local elections too goddammit
Man, I’d vote Whitmer over Newsom and I /hate/ Whitmer. Whitmer is good at being a “counter”. She is good at voicing up and objecting to Donald Trump. That’s it. She’s otherwise not particularly outstanding. When Biden was elected and she had to stand on her own, her accomplishments were lackluster at best. Newsom strikes me as more of the same, but worse. All talk, but can’t walk the walk.
/Harris/ with as many faults as she has, is a better choice than both of them combined and she wasn’t particularly stellar either.
I’d rather have Tlaib, AOC, Warren (yeah she’ll be like 80 so probably won’t make it out of the primary). If Illinois didn’t have a record of corrupt governors, maybe Pritzker? Warnock might be a better choice.
Seriously, fuck Newsom dude. That guy doesn’t stand for anything
I’d vote for a dead D over any R. 100% of the time.
I voted Harris and I voted in a garbage democratic senator for my state too.
I’m not a Democrat or a Republican. Party means jack shit to me. I’d rather vote a well meaning republican (hint: there are none left) than a shit Democrat. I have voted third party for my LOCAL clerk because the Democrat was corrupt as shit.
I will vote most any democrat at this point in the general, but I have my limits. I’m not voting Newsom. I understand the damage of voting third party, but I cannot vote Newsom. Pick someone else
I agree that he’s a POS but not voting is worse.
I’ll vote third party if Newsom is the nominee. They have good candidates and if they don’t select them over Newsom, sorry.
I’d have to pass voting in a general election if he was on the ticket. He’s against trans rights, and I am trans so I won’t be voting to have my rights stripped
Have you seen what his opposition is doing? Literally stripping trans people of earned retirement to name one. Newsom isn’t great but pick your battles.
I’m sorry but the degree of difference between the two is fucking almost nonexistent. One wants to throw me in a wood chipper and the other will happily allow me to be thrown in a wood chipper.
Sorry that I don’t want to be tossed in a wood chipper but fuck Newsom and fuck republicunts.
Once my people’s rights are tossed aside, then the floodgates are open and all of human rights are as good as gone. I will not live to say I told you so because of the way things are going. But when the dust settles Gavin Newsom will be remembered as being a piece of human filth just like the republicunts he opposes.
Sorry I don’t want to die for you to have your fucking cake.
US politics is 2 party, and you primary to move a party in the direction you want. not voting is effectively a vote against the direction you want to go. I don’t like the game, but it’s how it’s played.
I’m gonna vote in the primaries for whoever is willing to stand up for human rights, which includes trans rights. If my choices in the general are a fascist who’s gonna strip my rights and another fascist who’s gonna stripe my rights but now in blue, then sorry I’m not gonna go.
I actually have principles and morals so I’m gonna stick to it. It’s not worth deciding what color the wood chipper that’s gonna kill me is. I shouldn’t have to accept that I won’t live to see my thirties, accept that I likely won’t live to see the end of the decade but here I am. That’s the reality I have to accept because of people like you.
It’s sad that people like you think I should just roll over and give up my rights and accept death. It’s sad that you want to use my people and then toss us aside like a used tissue when we aren’t politically expedient.
Okay how about this? I don’t like trans rights being singled out. These are HUMAN rights. Newsom is against human rights. Doesn’t sound so good to toss that aside, now does it?
I’m in California so that would be me wasting a vote.