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Democrats are in a bind because they refused to allow any young politicians to shine. It was more important to have Nancy stick around to run her insider trading scams and keep taxes down for her wealthy friends.
To win under the electoral college, you have to do well in the Midwest and Rust Belt. Newsom stands no chance there. He'll be portrayed as an elitist Californian from San Francisco who is out of touch with the people (this is partially true).
Harris has an uphill battle as a woman and PoC. She had a sketchy run as Attorney General and is just terrible at politics. But the nomination will be handed to her if Biden doesn't run. She'll toe the establishment line which is more important than winning to the party.
I think the stink of the pandemic is going to hurt any Governor from running. Even if it isn't their fault, there is just too much anger over how things went down that I think the public will crave an outsider (sort of like we saw in Virginia). That would knock out people like Whitmer.
They're in pretty deep shit with the way things are going. Especially with how many of those battleground states are being setup to overturn election results the ruling party does not approve of.
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