The poll comes as Newsom has taken a more aggressive position in standing up to President Donald Trump.
  • zd9@lemmy.world
    182·
    11 days ago

    No. He should do what he can to push out and fight against this current regime, but nobody likes him or wants him as a president. Nobody.

    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOP
      74·
      11 days ago

      You’ve got to remember that you and I are not the average Democratic primary voter. Clearly there are plenty of Democrats who think this is a good idea.

        • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOP
          52·
          10 days ago

          I wish I could man but we’re in a Steelers Wheel situation where there are .ml clowns to the left of us and Nazis to the right and here we are stuck in the middle of neoliberals.

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
        51·
        10 days ago

        You should read the article. In the pole referenced Newsom is in 6th place. He got a higher than expected percentage of the poling which the author has blown up here with their deceptive clickbaity headline. Possibly in an effort to make people think that Newsom is the favorite.

        Not that I’d be really happy to vote for the actual favorite in the pole which is Kamala Harris. Though I would absolutely vote for her over Newsom any day of the week.

    • Taldan@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 days ago

      That’s a pretty good point

      I’m appreciating Newsom as a foil to Trump, and want him to continue that, but I really wouldn’t want him to be the Democratic nominee. I’d much rather have a Mamdani-esque nominee

    • madcaesar@lemmy.world
      64·
      11 days ago

      Why not? I don’t know much about him except that he isn’t 300 years old like the rest of the Democrats.

      He seems to be doing a good job in California?

      • zd9@lemmy.world
        102·
        11 days ago

        He’s just another slimy corporatist owned by the ultra wealthy, but throws a bone to the social issues of Democrats. Pretty much the same strategy that modern Democrats have had for the past 40+ years. I will absolutely vote for him in the general or support him in pushing against Trump/Repulicans, but he’s one of my least favorite Democrats now.

  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
    163·
    10 days ago

    Fuck this guy. Fuck him. He’s a piece of shit that’s desperate to be the next president because he’s seen how low the bar is.

    I’m a Californian, and I know we can do better. Demand better, America.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    12·
    10 days ago

    This fuckin guy has been moving right for the last several years. This is the same strategy that lost the Democrats the last election, and it will lose them the next one.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    11 days ago

    He’s nothing if not a political opportunist. Really hoping a better candidate starts gaining traction though.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    11 days ago

    We really are in the idiocracy timeline.

    Politicians are picked on their staffer’s ai meme game

  • atticus88th@lemmy.world
    41·
    11 days ago

    Because every candidate surging in polls 3 years ahead of the election have ever made it close to winning.

  • Tug@lemmy.world
    31·
    10 days ago

    I don’t want to lose him, but Gov Ned Lamont from CT is a pretty good governor. Maybe a little bit more towards the center than some would like but he’s done a good job with jobs, taxes and covid

  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
    11·
    10 days ago

    Republicans are rigging elections because they know that if they lose power, they’re going to hang for their crimes.

  • 0ndead@infosec.pubEnglish
    57·
    11 days ago

    Dem party infighting is exactly what the GOP wants. Don’t fall for it.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
      31·
      11 days ago

      Why are you talking like this before a primary even happens? Why do you want the Democratic party to lose? What you disparage as “infighting” sane people would call debate.

      There’s a toxic impulse among some centrists, the kind of folks that the label “Blue MAGA” applies to. This toxic impulse is to take a very Big Brother or Trumpian approach to politics. Circle the wagons. Support the leadership no matter what. Don’t try to improve the party or make sure the best candidate wins. Don’t focus on holding bad actors accountable. Just vote for dear leader and everything will be fine.

      You’re not even waiting til the after the primary to start vomiting “Vote Blue No Matter Who.”

    • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
      23·
      9 days ago

      good thing I’m a leftist and not a dem.

      respond “Nobody asked” if you’re a fascist

      the edits seem to have won :P