| ▲ | petcat 5 hours ago |
| 3 more years. I don't know who the Dems can elect to go against JD Vance, maybe Tim Walz, but they need somebody. |
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| ▲ | shagie 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > maybe Tim Walz https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2026/01/29/tim-walz-say... > MINNEAPOLIS (Gray News) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he will not run for elected office again. > Walz touched on his political plans in a recent interview with cable news channel MS Now. > “I will never run for an elected office again,” Walz said. “Never again.” > The 2024 Democratic vice-presidential nominee said he plans to “do the work” while finding other ways to serve the country. |
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| ▲ | rootusrootus 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I would guess that many politicians (of both sides, see also MTG) suddenly start to rethink how bad they want the public job when Trump turns the firehose of death threats their direction. | | |
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| ▲ | aaronbrethorst 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There'll be a ton of people running, any of which I think would be highly competitive against Vance: Walz, Pritzker, Newsom, Chris Murphy, Harris, Josh Shapiro, etc. But I think Mark Kelly is likely to be a top-tier candidate from the jump. He's not my favorite of the bunch, necessarily, but I'd consider putting money on him being the Democratic nominee in 2028. |
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| ▲ | dyauspitr an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Newsom, maybe Mark Kelly |
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| ▲ | rootusrootus 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 3 years of Trump getting progressively weaker as more and more Republicans in purple districts decide they are more likely to be reelected by going against Trump than by supporting him. Not to mention the midterms will at least make it impossible to get any legislation passed that they want (which, thankfully, they have been mercifully incompetent at so far). |
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| ▲ | toomuchtodo 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Pritzker. |
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| ▲ | actionfromafar 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| A wet towel could go against JD Vance, but what if Vance shutters polling stations in blue districts? Because "terrorism". |
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| ▲ | carefulfungi 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Weird to see this so downvoted on the same day that Trump asked republicans to "Nationalize" elections in 15 places. Whatever that means. > “Republicans should say, ‘We want to take control of this. We need to take control of voting in at least 15 places.’ Republicans should nationalize voting,” [Trump] said on the podcast of former FBI deputy director Dan Bongino, which was relaunched on Monday. | | |
| ▲ | rootusrootus 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | > Whatever that means It means Trump is sucking the oxygen out of the room. Again. I wish we would quit reacting to every stupid thing he says. |
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| ▲ | bpodgursky an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If the Democrats nominate Tim Walz they deserve to lose the next ten thousand elections. My god. |
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| ▲ | zthrowaway 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| 3 more years til the next dog and pony show but different colors. |
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| ▲ | mschuster91 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | The midterms this year can already seriously throw wrenches into the Project 2025 plans. Trump's failure to address the economy situation, the constant and ongoing wars, ICE seriously disrupting agriculture and construction sites, ICE executing white people in front of cameras [1] and now the latest Epstein crap... Democrats are flipping what used to be solid-red seats these days. People are fed up. Assuming there will be free elections - as absurd as it is to even write this sentence referring to the US, but here we are [2] - it most probably will end in an utter wipeout for MAGA. They'll have the President, of course, but assuming the Democrat leadership finds some spine - again, an assumption, given Schumer - stuff has the potential to change. On top of that are state and local level elections that are all the time. Stuff like school boards, sheriffs, whatever that is where MAGA and the Evangelicals built out their initial networks. All of that can be flipped around as well, if people actually bother to show up and vote. [1] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shootings_by_U.S._immi... - it is notable that widespread outrage only followed after the execution of Renee Good and Alex Pretti [2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/georgia-fult... |
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