California Governor Gavin Newsom holds an early edge over Vice President JD Vance among young male voters for the 2028 presidency, according to new polling from a Republican-affiliated firm.

The latest League of American Workers/TIPP survey, conducted October 22-28, shows that among young men, 38 percent would vote for Newsom compared to 33 percent for Vance.

The findings suggest that Newsom—a prominent Democratic voice—continues to outperform expectations with a demographic that has trended toward the GOP in recent years. The results come amid renewed debate within both parties over how to win back young men, a group increasingly seen as pivotal to future national elections.

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[–] 115 points 1 year ago (92 children)

Don’t run Newsom. Run AOC

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Always saying centrist candidates are the only ones who can win and then running only centrist candidates is a self fulfilling prophecy that doesn't even have a good track record.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (26 children)

    It'll be Harris all over again. JD sucks but in no way would I be enthusiastic about voting for Newsom.

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    So far I think he’s better than Hillary Clinton. I also don’t really know what he stands for.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    He stands for corporations as far as I can tell. Occasionally he is on the right side of things, seemingly on accident.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    He'll nit support cost of living, depressed wages, and will continue to offer tax breaks to the wealthy. Maybe he throws LGB people a bone, but he will absolutely make sure trans people get shafted. He's a corporate Dem when what the Dems actually need to be doing to helping working people.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    The trans issue shows he's not up for the challenge. If he can't stay on message and has to spread disinformation to win then he is only going to sweep MAGA under the rug instead of addressing their lies head on.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    listen to him talk about the students that have been protesting the genocide, he casts it as antisemitic.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I think there’s no way in hell Harris would win a democratic nomination. The stink left on her from losing to Trump will be very hard to overcome.

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    She's building up for something, not yet clear whether state level or national level.

    NY "moderate" dems need replacement. Hochul, Schumer, Gillibrand...

    Antonio Delgado is challenging Hochul and I'm excited for that. Gillibrand unfortunately isnt up for a while yet. Schumer is up in 2028 and therefore the most likely for AOC to challenge at state level.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    Democratic primary is going to be INTERESTING. God I hope we don’t fuck this up.

    While I would love AOC, she would be the youngest by quite a bit. Plus, she probably needs to win something more than a house seat. It is great having a party leader that is so young.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    The problem with the party leadership route is that party insiders are the only ones who get to vote on it, and when that's the electorate she can't even beat Gerry Nadler. If she can run in a race with real people voting on it I think she could beat anyone.

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    Copy and pasting from my other comment

    Her highest accomplishment is being a House of Representatives member. This is incredibly rare. Most people that become president have been elected in a statewide election, or had military, or were a part of the office in some way already (VP, secretary, etc).

    To go from being a House of Representatives member to being president is a massive uphill battle.

    I hope she runs and joins other democrats on the debate stage. It would raise her profile in a big way. She would have my vote for sure. But I would not get my hopes up simply cause of her experience level.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    I defo think we should run AOC over Newsom. That said, people staying home because voting for the lesser of two evils "violated their moral code" is how we ended up in our current situation. It is unbelievably selfish to prefer to say "at least my hands are clean" as the world grows drastically darker due to your inaction. I really hope we get to vote for AOC in 2028, but if we don't, then I am begging you to do some reflection and change your attitude.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's strange to me that we're agitating for voters to change and not our leaders. It's fewer people you have to convince.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    the astroturf is strong with this one

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Newsome is terrible. He's a slimy rich boy who is exceptional at playing demographics.

    People are excited cause this gerrymandering thing was a win. The dude has been enabling PG&E to kill hundreds of people in Northern California and handed them more power in relation to solar installation. He's not that far off from his democratic cuck podcast phase where he let popular republicans shit down his throat cause he thought that would make him more popular nationality.

    Newsome will sell the nation out for money, or power, he doesn't care about California, he cares about looks. DNC loves a plastic-surgeried, rich candidate as much as republicans do. You can hope they do better, but people are shallow.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Harris running a shitty campaign, standing proudly next to republicans, riding the coat-tails of a terrible president, and telling her voting base to sit down and shut up is what haneded Trump his second term.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Get ready for a lot more of it when the elections come around. This place will be crawling with that bullshit again.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hey, maybe he's a true believer that just drank all the astroturf flavored Kool-aid.

    Newsom is also not my preferred candidate. Yeah, it might lower enthusiasm and cause people to stay home, aka the opposite of Mamdami. But I'm not going to go tell my friends and everyone on the Internet not to vote because of it.

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