Subject: Re: d's will pay "for a long time" - Va
Significant members of the Dem party disagree with you, so we can agree to disagree.

Who disagrees?

They were out there calling for an open nominating process, but none of them were promoting a candidate. No potential candidates were coming forward. None of the folks calling for there to be a contest was going to run themselves, and none of them were identifying any possibilities. I'm not saying there weren't people who were wishing there would be a vigorous contest against Harris; I'm saying that this would have been nothing but a wish, because no one was going to take that fight.

Going out and saying "Someone should run against Harris" is very different from saying "There is someone who is willing to run against Harris."

Let me put it directly to you: who's the person? Who do you think makes the choice in, say, late December of 2023 to enter the race against Harris knowing that it's too late for them to win the "conventional" way (pun intended), by getting a majority of the delegates? Which of the party's major players chooses to roll the dice in that race, against someone who both is the Veep (always a heavy favorite) and has several months headstart on you assembling a campaign and fundraising team?

Give me the name. Neither Newsom nor Beshear nor Pritzger nor Buttigieg would have entered the race on those terms. Josh Shapiro and Wes Moore were too newly elected. Ro Khanna? AOC?