The poll indicates support for the more aggressive position Newsom has taken in standing up to Donald Trump, particularly over a plan by Republicans in Texas to redraw their state’s congressional seat map in the hopes of winning more seats in midterm elections next year.

The battle to become the 2028 presidential election candidate will likely set the new direction for the Democratic Party as it struggles with net favorability at what one recent poll showed to be a three-year low. Newsom has not formally announced his candidacy.

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    18 hours ago

    He’s not a Dem, he’s a neoliberal.

    It’s way past the time to stop pretending there isn’t a distinction. We can’t just let them keep lying about what they are, because they’re trashing the image of the entire Democratic party.

    They don’t have the same goals, strategy, or process.

    Neoliberals are fundementally different than Democrats. And now that neoliberals no longer control the democratic party, it’s time to differentiate the two camps.

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      18 hours ago

      Um what?

      Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Kamala Harris, Andrew Cuomo, and Gavin Newsom are some of the major leaders of the democratic party. They’re still running the party as they have been for the past few decades. Maybe accept that and stop supporting the party.

      Who is in a leadership position in the DNC that isn’t a neolib?

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        Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Kamala Harris, Andrew Cuomo, and Gavin Newsom are some of the major leaders of the democratic party.

        Because the neo liberals controlled the DNC for decades, and if reps didn’t vote for who the DNC wanted in those positions, the DNC would fuck with them and withhold the money that was stolen from their state via Victory Fund out of spite.

        They’d fuck over any incumbent that went against them, even if that meant a republican kept the seat.

        But the voting members of the DNC finally kicked the neoliberals out of power at the DNC.

        The people you are talking about are still coasting off the last leadership elections in the House/Senate when the neoliberals were in charge. They won’t win the next ones without the threats from the DNC.

        Does it make sense now?

        This is important to understand and billionaire owned media sure as shit aren’t going to explain it, so if you have more questions I’ll try to answer them.

        Who is in a leadership position in the DNC that isn’t a neolib?

        The chair, who unilaterally controls everything for the next 3 years…

        If you think he’s going to fight against progressives, look at the decade he ran Minnesota, it went from a purple state to deep blue and home to some of our most progressive House reps.

        If Martin is a neo liberal who wants to keep progressives out of office, he’s so bad at it he might as well not be trying.

        Logically that means the reason he was picked is the voting members of the DNC want to listen to voters again instead of screeching at them.

        Quick edit:

        But it seems you’re conflating House/Senate leadership with DNC leadership…

        They should be separate things, but decades of neoliberalism has intertwined the two.

        It’s going to take another House/Senate leadership election cycle to fix that, because the last vote happened with the old DNC.

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            17 hours ago

            I guess time will tell

            Martin ran Minnesota up till the day he became DNC chair…

            He’s not some random unknown person, there is zero indication to show he’s going to run the DNC differently than he did Minnesota.

            If he does start fucking around, believe me I’ll be the first to call him out on it. But right now there is zero logical reason to expect any difference.

            Though I’d still rather go for real socialism than progressivism

            That’s the great part about Martin.

            It’s not that he has a view of what voters want, and is going to try and make that work.

            He runs fair, unbiased primaries, and whoever wins he’ll put the full weight of the party behind them in a general.

            It’s why billionaires are trying to convince people they shouldn’t vote in the next dem presidential primary, and why it’s essential we counter that

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      16 hours ago

      From what I’ve seen, he’s further to the right than even many of the utterly useless center-right Democrats.

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        16 hours ago

        Out of curiosity, why did you reply to a comment about the importance of differentiating neoliberals from Dems, by conflating the two?

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          Because they haven’t left the Democratic Party yet, and though the party may be starting to move away from neoliberalism, most of its most prominent voices today are still neoliberals. Running Newsom as a presidential candidate would seal the deal.