Any chance tonight’s win in Pennsylvania could put Josh Shapiro (49) on a career path to throw his hat in the ring in 2024? Maybe him and Whitmer as his running mate, now that we’ve broken the seal on electing a female VP.
Funny, I was thinking that tonight’s win in Pennsylvania could put John Fetterman on that path.
Bit early for Shapiro, I would think, and if Biden doesn’t run in 2024 Harris will be the likely choice.
2028, maybe.
I could maybe see Fetterman as VP.
Too soon for sure, but an AOC vs. Trump election would be entertaining as hell.
Whitmer’s resounding win in a battleground state yesterday gives cause for consideration. The Qpublicans haven’t had 20 years to drum up hatred for her like they did for Hilary. Could be effective with the undecideds.
I think Wes Moore, Governor-elect of Maryland should be on the radar. Not in 2024 IMO, but by 2030 if he does a good job and/or moves to the US Senate for a higher national profile.
With Trump and Biden both now running for re-election, I’ll double down on my age conviction and vote for either parties’ candidate if one is under 60 at the time of the general election.
It’s a shame that the political machine that exists in our country can only produce these two candidates as front runners for the respective parties.
Young nazis > old moderates!
Terrible idea. Ron DeSantis is 44 right now.
If Ron DeSantis is the GOP nominee and Biden is the Democrat nominee, I’ll vote for DeSantis.
If Trump is the GOP nominee and OAC is the Democrat nominee, I’ll vote for OAC.
These aren’t life appointments. I still believe in our system of government. Just don’t like either party or the polarization that the parties have moved to.
Yes, it’s terrible how the parties are polarized to the far-right and the far-middle.
I’m not sure any of those choices would help combat the polarization. I would vote for AOC in a heartbeat, even though I don’t think that highly of her intellect,* because what she has in spades that few other politicians seem to have is courage.
*From what little I’ve seen, she mostly uses other people’s ideas, sometimes quite uncritically, but she doesn’t represent my district so I freely admit I haven’t paid attention and might be wrong, and I would be delighted if I were.
I keep expecting Pete Buttgieg to be president one day. I don’t even know if I agree with his policies, but he has almost every possible qualification to be president. I believe he is pretty much beyond reproach?
However, will America elect a gay president? No idea.
Who would he be running against?
The right-wing narrative that in the Good Old Days, men were men and women were women and gays didn’t exist except maybe in San Francisco and one or two in the entertainment industry (but no leading men), and the idea that we should return to those enlightened times.
I feel like Obama’s election was both a really positive milestone and the thing that overturned the rock and showed us the disgusting racism thriving beneath (with apologies to entomologists). Buttegieg’s election would be the same, and I suspect all this anti-Trans bullshit is priming the pump to make sure he and the rest of us never have a shot.
I think Biden will win re-election against Trump and possibly Desantis against Pete in 2028?
Jared Polis (Gov. CO) has a greater chance of being the 1st gay president before Buttigieg.
Different strokes for different folks — I see very little in Pete Buttigieg to make me think he’s well qualified to be president. He’s never successfully run for an office higher than mayor of the fourth largest city in Indiana. He’s shown very little ability to grow his support beyond left-leaning, college-educated white voters.
Absolutely he seems smart, decent and a good speaker. But I haven’t really seen the political skills that a President needs to effectively advance an agenda. Maybe that can come with time.
I agree with you. This is why I say Polis has a greater chance to be the 1st gay president. Not on name recognition, but skills and qualifications.