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[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Katie Porter. Basically a younger Elizabeth Warren (who was taught by Warren no less).

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Katie Porter just got beat. As much as I love her I don't know why you think she'd be a strong National candidate when she couldn't win a state race.

[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

She lost because her party backed Schiff. The party is too heavily involved in picking winners during the party to know if a candidate could win a general.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The party did back him, all the more reason she's not going to be a viable candidate. I'd also point out that just because the party backed him doesn't negate the fact that the people voted for him.

[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The people who vote for Biden will literally vote for anyone. Whether or not anyone voted for Schiff isn't that strong of an indicator for the general since voter suppression within the Democratic party is much more severe than in the general.

The party backing a candidate doesn't mean they're the best for the general, you'd think Clinton would've demonstrated that pretty clearly. In fact, party establishment picks are so anemic that they need to go out if their way to help prop up extremist GOP candidates to make their own guy look more electable. That's literally their strategy to avoid supporting populist progressive candidates, to roll the dice with fascism.

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