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Polis is awesome and should be President. Surrender to Polis.

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In polling Biden is now dead even with Trump and he was +8 on Trump in Nov. 2020 and he needs to be +3-4 to overcome the R advantage in the EC. He is behind in all the swing states.

I see my fellow Dems as whistling in the canoe just upriver from the waterfall. Nothing against JB and I would vote for Robert Menendez over Trump, but wake up Dems, this is a loser, and a Gretchen Whitmer could win.

I think we tend to lose with candidates from the uber liberal states CA, NY, MA, at least since JFK. Roy Cooper.

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I'd vote for any of them, top choice Whitmer, though I think the comedy world would benefit more from Newsom.

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I am adorable—thanks for noticing!

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Thank you for my morning laughs which are pretty rare these days. Whitner for me!

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And my governor Roy Cooper of NC. Head of the Democratic Governors Assn, he has won in 2016 and 2020 when Trump took the state and is term limited. He ran a good 5-10 points ahead of the national ticket.

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John Denver was actually writing about the Western part of the State of Virginia, not West Virginia the state. Because obviously

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Ab Gavin Newsom. The adorable “rules for thee but not for me” candidate. Him running nationally will be good for his ego. And by good I mean “a wake up call” for his ego.

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I declare this entire amusing essay cruel but fair.

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Run it back in Michigan now and Whitmer might lose by a margin like what she won. Many of us were still hypnotized at that point. The Ds do not have anyone who can even get close enough to make a fraudulent "win" believable. Wilderness for them and maybe the next generation will improve.

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This whole group sucks, which is why Democrats are sticking with Biden. Whitmer probably has the best chance. Pritzker is too rich, Polis too left. Gavison is insufferable and Warnyk doesn't have the chops.

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