best of luck to her

I'm an absolute no on Beshear, but I'm a total yes on Kamala.

I'm not set on Beshear, I'm just a hard no on Newsom or Pritzker or Kelly but otherwise I'm pretty flexible.

He thinks he is one of the good billionaires like Melinda Gates or MacKenzie Scott. I trust Thom.

Assuming Beshear would take a VP slot.

It's funny when RW's falsely claim DJT won in a land slide. That didn't happen.

votes was the largest difference since Obama VS Romney. The popular vote was indeed very close.

I am still not sure who I want most for 2028. Giving things time.

...and how she articulates an alternative vision of the country's future, as I will with all primary candidates. I do have some red line issues, e.g. universal health care during my lifetime, restoration of the government agencies that Trump has decimated, the complete and utter dismantling of ICE, with prosecutions where appropriate, massive tax increases for the wealthy, etc for a start. I don't have much patience for the "democratic party elite" who want the office, but only offer slogans and ads to define their campaigns. I'll be listening for substance.

After the horror of 🍊 Menace, maybe the voting public will be more receptive to a woman?

file under- how about something completely different?

But her campaign was like no other presidential candidate in US history. She built and ran an entire campaign in less than 90 days.
While I personally think it was a mistake to make Republicans such a central component of her campaign, it was still amazing. She got the 2nd most votes of an Democratic Party candidate in history and 3rd most overall in history.
I think with a full campaign and including less Republicans and more progressives with her on the campaign trail, she can absolutely win.

I'm still in shock that they didn't win. They had a KICKING campaign!

I am personally not sold on the idea that we can only have a white christian straight male on the ticket. I think this limits our choices to a small slate of blah candidates that the country and the party is frankly not the least bit excited about. I am not excited about having to choose between Andy Beshear and some other white dude just because they happen to check a few boxes we think right voting candidates who weren't going to vote for us in the first place might like.

I am voting for Pete Buttigieg if he's running. He's the smartest guy in the room by a mile.

With that said, I think Kamala Harris running again is a huge mistake for this reason: the country has already had a chance to weigh in on her in the general. The country said NO. We can be upset about this. We can say it isn't fair. We can say the country is racist and misogynistic (and we would be right) and name a host of other reasons why it happened. But the point is, we need to turn the page.

Running the same person that already failed in the general election and has never successfully run before is a huge mistake. By that logic, we should run Hillary again. Or Al Gore.

That said, she had roughly 90 days to mount a campaign and I think advisors had her placating to Republicans far too aggressively. Plus she was trying to run a campaign while still trying to be a loyal VP to a sitting president and not undermine his policy positions.
To judge the situation solely based on a 90 day campaign in a situation that no other presidential candidate has ever had to run a campaign under the conditions she was forced to run under.

I think a full campaign in which she courts less Republicans and more progressives and runs a more progressive leaning campaign will be far more successful

the party actually allows us to pick the candidate in the primaries this time around.

She can run just the same as anybody, but the party owes her no deference

yes indeed

consider that the next Dem president will need to do massive reforms to the mess that Trump has made of the governing system. Numerous departments and staff positions will need to be restored. Several executive orders will need to be trashed.

The next president will need to build a competent cabinet and choose a tough, effective AG who will hold people accountable and restore Constitutional law. The current Pentagon leadership will need to be overhauled.

There is so much restoration and reform needed that a top priority must be a candidate capable of carrying it out. Someone who can gather together advisors, staff, and department heads who can do the job.

...and against Donald Trump!
Let's face a fact, a lot of democrats voted against her for whatever reason. Those reasons haven't gone away.
Us democrats seem to think the majority of the country is generally tolerant and progressive like us. I haven't seen that at the voting booths.

I'm sure some of us think we can easily win with an openly gay crossdressing Hispanic/black woman with a hammer & sickle tattoo if only we gave her a chance, because America is ready. We need someone with universal appeal across the spectrum.

a delegate to the 2024 convention, and as her attendant (she's disabled), I got to sit on the floor of the convention center with her, and I was so excited to be there! (It was amazing... Kamala was amazing... Walz was amazing...and in any sane world, they would have crushed those psychopaths.)

I'm not ready to contemplate Kamala's chances in 2028, but I do SO WISH she had run for governor of California, instead! I can't even bear to look at any news of Swalwell (and the allegations against him)... with the absurd "jungle primary" creating the potential for a Republican to win in this dark blue state! I have kept assuming the current madness (so many Dem candidates, no one with a real lead, but the less popular candidates still refusing to drop out) would be resolved before it's too late, but if Swalwell (one of the three Dem frontrunners) exits the race, will Porter have the votes to be make the run-off? Or will Styer? Porter kinda pissed me off when she ran for Senate at a time when her congressional seat (without her running as the incumbent) was in jeopardy ....and we needed her unique voice in the House... and the Senate seemed a long shot. I just get the impression she is a lot less popular than she once was. But Styer, another billionaire?

Kamala would have been perfect, and a shoo-in.

She might. It is early, but it is going to be hard for her to be my pick.