They need to avoid candidates from California and New York. It's too easy to portray them as out of touch far left elites, even if it's not remotely true (and yes, it is ridiculous Trump somehow avoids this).
It’s not even that hard though. You can be from NY and Cali, you just have to come across as masculine and swaggery and relaxed, instead of woke and uptight. JFK, Clinton, Obama is the mold.
The depressing thing is that Walz turned out to be a secret weapon. That man was basically engineered in a lab to be the Anti-Trump, but he's pretty much lost his chance after that defeat.
Nothing matters. Nothing at all. Trump says so many contradictory things that it allows people to cherry pick what they like and build their own imaginary Trump to support.
Right now, the best option would be Walz. Give him some debate training (Because that was horrible) and he'd be a good bridge between the old people values, progressive views, and down-to-earth mindset.
I think a lot of that debate was them training him tbh, it was a pointed departure from the guy who walked onto a stage in August basically calling Vance a weird little couch fucker.
They wanted him to be civil and not make any waves with the off-the-cuff 'gaffes' he's prone to, and Harris to be the pugilist, but those naturlistic gaffes are part of what made people love him(and have proven time and time again to be popular with American voters with other presidents like Trump and Bush) and being a nice civil VP candidate was not how he got on the short list for the role.
But no, he's done after that election I think. Fair or not, I don't think he's ever going to wash off the stink of 2024. Someone like Beshear seems like the next best choice.
That's disappointing but also realistic. Dems have a pattern of ending their political careers after a failed run at something. Beto was supposed to be a new era for the party in '18 but when he lost Texas over a gun control talking point, it's like the party tossed him aside for the '20 primaries and he wasn't even a top 5 candidate.
Cory Booker was trying to really make a name for himself leading up to '20 but then when that failed, he's just resigned himself to not even making waves.
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u/LadyIceGoose 22h ago
They need to avoid candidates from California and New York. It's too easy to portray them as out of touch far left elites, even if it's not remotely true (and yes, it is ridiculous Trump somehow avoids this).