The poll indicates support for the more aggressive position Newsom has taken in standing up to Donald Trump, particularly over a plan by Republicans in Texas to redraw their state's congressional seat map in the hopes of winning more seats in midterm elections next year.

The battle to become the 2028 presidential election candidate will likely set the new direction for the Democratic Party as it struggles with net favorability at what one recent poll showed to be a three-year low. Newsom has not formally announced his candidacy.

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[–] 52 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Yeah, let's put up another California democrat that's too centrist to attract progressives and too California to attract middle America, it worked so well last time...

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

    It only makes sense to those who only think hilldog and Harris lost because they were women not because they ran God awful campaigns

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    hilldog and Harris lost because they were women not because they ran God awful campaigns

    They lost for both reasons.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    It's almost as if the people who find Republican issues compelling would rather vote for a full Republican than a Republican-lite. Maybe if he curses while doubling down on Zionism he will somehow reach the 3rd rail 🙄

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    A month ago, I would have said the same thing. Right now though, he's the only candidate I see standing up to Trump

    I don't particularly like his policies, but I want someone either very progressive, or willing to get dirty

    The current regime is far too fascist for me to worry about whether someone is progressive enough

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  • [+] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    My fear is that the politics-as-sport metaphor has become too literal. He's getting attention by hitting at Trump and more Democrats should be doing that, but his actual policies and stances are uninspiring and offensive. He's another pro-corporate, pro-wealth, pro-status-quo white guy whose best quality is he isn't Trump.

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

    Completely agree. I long for the day I can finally for FOR something rather than AGAINST something.

    On the other hand, not-trump is a pretty damn good quality.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    On the other hand, not-trump is a pretty damn good quality.

    Sad but true. I fucking hate that we are talking about this fucking asshole, but like that bullshit recall election in '21, I will hold my nose and vote for harm reduction. So fucking depressing. You think its gonna be Trump again? If he wants to stay in power, breaking the 22nd amendment, why have elections at all?

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  • [+] 65 points 1 year ago (36 children)
  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (35 children)

    I am very willing to debate this leading up to and during the primaries, but once those are done I am going to vote against the GOP no matter who is on the ballot.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I am going to vote against fascism. If the Democratic party insists on choosing a candidate who agrees with Republican efforts to genocide me, then I am going to vote against their fascist too. And don't come looking for me to whine about it after; by the time the Niemoller poem gets to you I'll be long gone already.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (32 children)

    Why would they care about anything you want if you're going to vote for them no matter what?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Them: "The Democrats keep lying to us and screwing us over, WTF?!?"

    Me: "Well, you keep announcing that you will vote for them, even though they keep doing that, right?"

    Them: "Yes, but I can't figure out why keep lying to us and screwing us over"

    Me: "..."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (23 children)

    You can make your case against Newsom during the primary.

    If Democrats generally agree with you, then someone else will be nominated. If Democrats generally disagree with you, then why would you expect them to do what you want?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (22 children)

    If people were willing to withhold their vote and not vote dem, then the dems wouldn't be able to ride roughshod over labor issues the way they do now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (21 children)

    If people really wanted Dems to prioritize labor issues, then Dems who prioritized labor issues would win primaries.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    oh dear... no they wouldn't. You're living in a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the system is rigged against labor issues. Look at the ratfucking bernie got and he was a compromiye candidate.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (19 children)

    Nonsense. Bernie lost because he is unpopular among Black voters. And polls consistently show that Democratic voters prioritize other issues over labor.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    Bernie lost because the DNC screwed him over. Calling him a racist is one of the many ways that they did that.

    I agree that voters prioritize other issues over labor, but the Democratics refuse to take action on those issues as well. Maybe they could try doing what the voters want for a change, and see if people come out to support them.

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

    Did the DNC make Sanders say this?

    You know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an African-American

    The top issues are among Democrats right now are inflation and civil rights, and that's what they are focusing their messaging on.

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

    The top issues are among Democrats right now are inflation and civil rights

    Then maybe the elected Democrats should have done something about those things when they had the power to. But they chose not to, and instead spent their time giving handouts to their rich friends, and bombing kids.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Democrats aren't responsible for Trump tariffs, and that's what is causing inflation.

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

    Sure, that's why I said "When they had the power to". But they were responsible for the inflation under Biden and Obama, and instead of trying to fix that, they screwed over workers and gave handouts to their rich friends.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (13 children)

    They did fix it. Inflation was under 3% when Biden left office.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    lol, sure thing buddy. Housing was more expensive, education was more expensive, food was more expensive, healthcare was more expensive, wages weren't keeping up. But sure, they "fixed" inflation.

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    I'm sure the people that went bankrupt due to illness will be glad to hear that. Or the people that could no longer feed their kids due to Biden taking away their benefits. Or the students that still owe money becuase Biden chose to dick around instead of fixing their debt.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    As I said, the top concern among Democrats is inflation. Not ending capitalism.

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

    I'm pretty sure I didn't disagree with that. As I said, the Democrats should have done something about that when they had the chance.

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

    They did. They reduced CPI below 3%, which means they fixed inflation.

    That doesn't mean they solved everyone's problems. But they fixed what Democrats consider the biggest problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    That's not fixing inflation. That's putting a bandaid on a broken leg, and calling it fixed. There are structural problems, that the Democrats pretty openly refuse to address.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    If inflation is below 3%, there is no reason to lower it further. In fact it's harmful to try, because it would require austerity measures that increase unemployment. So once it reaches that point, it is indeed fixed.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Well then, maybe they could fix the housing costs, or the food costs, or the education costs, or health-care costs. Or increase wages. You know the other things that voters care about that you keep ignoring.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Cost is not the same thing as inflation. When inflation is low, costs are stable.

    Costs of consumer goods, which voters are most concerned about, were stable when Biden left office.

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

    Oh, right. I must have zoned out when I said that.... hrm... actually, I didn't say that. Weird.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    What are you talking about? The Democratic leadership hasn't been giving the voters the policies that they want for my entire lifetime. They Democratic leadership gives their doners the policies that they want, but they've been pretty open about not caring about their voters.

    Maybe if the Democrats stopped putting up awful candidates, who run awful campaigns based on awful policies, then people would come out and vote for them.

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  • Except we saw that to be false in the case of bernie where the party leadership kept putting their thumb on the scale, with superdelegates and whatever.

    Feckless and undependable voter means someone who wont blindly vote dem every single time? Why is gruesome newsom spending so much time on fascist podcasts bashing trans people then?

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

    Because primaries exist? You know, the thing you've been demanding for years now?

    Surely there will be several leftist candidates to choose from.... Er...

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

    Which is what I'm saying?? They don't even field left-ish candidates anymore because they know that anyone left of the overton window, enfranchised and able to vote will vote for them no matter what so why appeal to them? The people on the hedge are to the right, therefore thats who they try to appeal to. Which is why you get this guy going on talkshow flashing his transphobia credentials in a desperate attempt to cozy up to the fasc crowd.

    But then look at the people that came out for zohran. The zohran campaign targeted areas that dont even bother showing up to vote and it paid off big time.

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