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Gavin Newsom thanks you for your attention to redistricting (www.cnn.com)

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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.

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[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 5 points 14 hours ago

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

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

I’d vote for a dead D over any R. 100% of the time.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

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

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I agree that he’s a POS but not voting is worse.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

I’ll vote third party if Newsom is the nominee. They have good candidates and if they don’t select them over Newsom, sorry.

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