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usonian

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12. Gavin Newsom is doing as you ask, but is shifting right IMO.
Fri Mar 28, 2025, 09:50 PM
Mar 2025

If the GOP self-destructs, and that's not a given, then there will be plenty of crossovers. In that scenario, congress people are between supporting the loss of vital services and the loss of Elon's money (or it going to some even worse primary contender)

And IANAL, but aren't primaries entirely at party discretion? I recall no legal requirement. (Correct my if I am wrong) so the orange party owner can just pick and choose? He did stack it with sycophants.

But a spokesperson does not have to be a candidate, so Bernie is fine if he doesn't have to travel like a candidate (and is doing now out of devotion to his principles) and so are previous office holders, remarkable for their silence.

Bernie and AOC and Tim Walz are leading the way, IMO, with their public appearances.

I like Rev. Senator Warnock as a spokesperson in the tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King, and he is senior pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King Jr.'s former congregation.

His senate colleague, Jon Ossoff, is raising his voice and profile, with a re-election battle coming soon.




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