It’s vitally important that Democrats now ask one question and one question only: Does Biden have the best chance of beating Trump, or is there someone else readily available who has a better chance?
We're too trapped in a bubble if we think the white, non college-educated suburban housewives in Pennsylvania and Ohio that ultimately swung the 2020 election to Biden would vote for A) A woman B) A black woman C) A black woman who's name sounds like "Obama".
This is a bad place. And not most people, but most of the people who vote regularly, are just bad, broken, selfish, frightened people.
Theyll vote down a Californian even faster, "MUH DRUG NEEDLES ON THE STREET, MILLION COST OF LIVING", those will be the headlines for the four months before they turn into Magat pravda
Are we really worried about what Trump's base thinks? I think if Newsom did even a modicum of campaigning he'd pull ahead. The "commie state" stuff only goes so far once he's on the news talking about mainstream liberal stuff.