alt Hacker News3 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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Newsom, maybe Mark Kelly
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.
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).
A wet towel could go against JD Vance, but what if Vance shutters polling stations in blue districts? Because "terrorism".
If the Democrats nominate Tim Walz they deserve to lose the next ten thousand elections. My god.
Pritzker.
3 more years til the next dog and pony show but different colors.
> 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.