• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Four months is not “so little time”. And I agree that Shapiro and Walz have branding issues, but 4 months, the entire news media and DNC war chest would be enough to solve that. Newsom doesn’t have nearly the baggage Hillary had either. Hillary had baggage going back to 1992. Newsom has baggage from ~5 years ago? At that point there’s no one qualified to run, not even Biden.

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      1 year ago

      It’s short enough time that a new nominee would literally be disqualified from the ballot in some states.

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        1 year ago

        The only state that requires certification before the convention is Ohio. A state we aren’t counting on and have little to no chance to win unless we suddenly run Reagan 2.0.

        There’s 49 other states that would still be in play, including all of the normal blue states and swing states.