Obama’s comments appear in a new video supporting Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50 which would allow the California legislature to draw new congressional boundaries ahead of the midterms
Barack Obama has entered the political fray ahead of November’s special election in California, accusing Republicans of attempting to “rig the next election” in a new ad backing Governor Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, a ballot measure that could reshape the state’s congressional map.
“Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years,” Obama says in the 30-second ad, urging voters to approve the proposal. “You can stop Republicans in their tracks.”
All this astrofurfing and campaigning for Newsom is just a proactive effort to preempt any radical voices from gaining traction from the anti-Trump momentum. That’s the top of their agenda right now, institutional integrity and democracy is at best second.
This is a great example of “the left” being manipulated to turn on itself. Newsom ain’t great but he is better than anything my former party Republicans put forth. If he makes it through the primaries, please for the love of Satan vote for him in the general. If Republicans win again it’s completely over. If I were still one I’d be completely OK with so many worse things happening. Be more scared of what is yet to come than a groveling centrist like Newsom.
Yeah, Obama is dividing the left with another power play. People don’t want Newsom for a number of reasons. People want to vote for an actual leader who has principles.
Vote for him in the general regardless. Why is this so hard? Vote in the primary and show up in the general. Our voting system is so simple.
I couldn’t vote for Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primary because of Obama’s power play. Convincing effectively all candidates to drop out and endorse Biden was election interference.
Our voting system is already rigged and the person warning that Republicans are rigging the next election is responsible, in part.
Nah, that just encourages them to ratfuck progressives. I am not voting for Newsom in the general.
You both can be right with these seemingly opposed stances. Doesn‘t matter actually, all that matters is that the left is divided and the right isn‘t. That‘s all it takes for evil to win.
Change that!
This is my point reiterated. I don’t like newsom either, but i would vote for him 1x10^100 if he were the candidate in the general. The “he is being normalized” shit is why the left loses all the time. Complain about him, but don’t assume enough centrists wont vote for him in the primaries for him to be the general candidate. I’m tired of people not voting, then bitching about the current administration.
Wow you’d vote for Hitler (D) over Hitler (R/) you are very brave and smart.
The .ml is insanely consistent with being incredibly stupid. I wish I was comfortable being as dumb as you are.
So there is a line. You wouldn’t vote for Literally Hitler. Good Job! How about Trump (D)? In the 90’s a lot of democrats, including Dems you probably have voted for and supported online, loved Trump.
How about a President (R ) who thinks that allowing the US to use Drones to kill anyone in the world as long as the CIA has a good reason to kill them is also ok? What if that were President (D)? Any issue there?
As if any candidate you would consider radical would have any chance in hell of winning
…why do you believe that? Kamala was the opposite of radical and lost horribly to Trump.
If anything, it’s worth trying to run on something progressive or substantive, since running on status quo policies doesn’t seem to be working.
She wasn’t portrayed/perceived that way at all, you understand that right? You and everyone else with some political awareness might think that, but the magats and even a shitload of “centrists” (quotes because most have been captured by the magats without being aware) think she was radical.
E.g. Bernie. The most milquetoast “radical” tested
America only has an appetite for far right radicals atm, clearly.
Everybody knows that those on the far-right drip are trained to think everybody to the left of them (even a little bit) is a radical.
Liberal mainstream media did not portray her that way at all.
You’re likely referring to old-school Republicans/conservatives, and they either didn’t vote (because they are disenfranchised) or voted Trump, yes. Some may have voted Kamala, but not as much as she might have hoped (given her strategy to shift right).
A significant amount of people don’t vote in this country and the Democrats aren’t interested in capturing that demographic, nor are they interested in capturing progressive or leftist voters.
…and because they aren’t trying to appeal to anyone besides people who absolutely cannot abide by Trump, they lost and will likely continue to lose in the big elections if they don’t run on something to attract voters.
Who never got a chance in a general election because he got ratfucked 2x in a row by the Democratic Party et. al.
Bernie is the lesser evil here - he’s milquetoast, but not as milquetoast as e.g. Kamala, Biden, and Obama are to their corporate donors.
Bernie was a good sport, but he has principles he stands by and that’s more than those folks could say now.
This is just major debunked cope. People seem to forget, but when Trump ran for the first time, the whole “establishment” hated him, both left and right. Hell, even the heritage foundation didn’t want him. Until he got too big to ignore, he won through sheer brute force popularity. Bernie just lost the primaries to Hillary…if you think America has any capability right now to see anyone to the left of Bernie in power, you’re just delusional.
Current America would rather take an old bumbling corrupt criminal rapist(pedo too?) brainlet instead of a qualified intelligent prosecutor/AG because a woman of colour is a bit too much. Don’t make the mistake of thinking your niche is anywhere near the norm.
The top brass in the DNC literally resigned due to their actions behind closed doors in 2016. Inform yourself.
And at the same time, Hillary’s campaign and the DNC created Trump and elevated him to be a leader of the pack as a pied piper candidate, as confirmed by the verified, leaked emails from her campaign. They thought it would’ve been an easy win against him and even told the media to take him seriously. Cocky.
Which is cope. She lost because she wasn’t real, among numerous other real reasons like only running on not being Trump and running on the same sweet-nothings as the prior administration + a few goodies that were lukewarm, at best.
It’s not a mistake, I’m seeing through the propaganda that you are trying to spin as the one true reality… and a growing amount of Americans are seeing through it too.
News flash, media and partisan politics aren’t reflective of the actual reality and people are tuning out of that bullshit. The bullshit doesn’t get an overwhelming majority of Americans to come to the voting booths and that’s evidence enough for me.
The 2016 Democratic primary wasn’t rigged by the DNC, and it certainly wasn’t rigged against Sanders. But Democratic elites did try to make Clinton’s nomination as inevitable, as preordained, as possible. And the party is still managing the resentment that engendered in voters. “Once somebody doesn’t trust you,” sighs Buckley, the New Hampshire Democratic chair, “it’s very hard to get that trust back.”
Don’t believe your lived experience and lying eyes, Vox disagrees!
You do realize there are essentially no facts or good faith argumentation present throughout this paywalled abomination to support their premise and conclusion?
I thought this was going to be a bombshell that was going to rock my world, but that was just more smug gaslighting that doesn’t fairly address or even present almost any of the relevant context, facts, or arguments made by those paying attention.
Democracy certainly isn’t alive in the Democratic party and there’s no amount of partisan slop that can convince me otherwise.