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I like her, but I also think Mark Kelly would be a strong candidate. Former military. Retired Astronaut. Wife survived an attempted political assassination. He stood up to the Trump administration who tried to charge him with crimes punishable by execution and waved it off.
It seems to me that Kelly is a centrist who stands for nothing in particular. Why have you decided to support him? Sure being a navy pilot and a member of Nasa is cool, but we dont need cool, we need a dem who will take a stand on the issues for once. Issue support is what we need to win, not some cult of personality.
But have you considered how electable a zionist white thumb is in Trump's America? /s
AOC voted to continue arming Pissrael, so...
You're right, she is such a zionist I am sure AIPAC will help fund her race for president. 🙄
Strawman arguments are a weak response to being presented with facts you don't like being reminded of.
I presented a counter factual. You show an instance where she "supported" Isreal and I show you a pattern of Isreal hating her guts. But I guess large trends like that aren't relevant now?
Uh... where, exactly, did you do that?
Also, voting to send millions of dollars worth of weaponry isn't "supported" with quotes, it's just supported. No quotes necessary.
He's not my favorite. But he'd be a strong candidate.
Barley anyone knows his name or anything about him. If the candidate doesn't throw down the gauntlet with the GOP and trump, show they can fight this shit, they will lose. Trying to convince ppl in a few months that that's Kelly isn't going to work. AOC is in the trenches fighting visibly, every day, and has Bernie's backing, bigger name recognition, aligned with mamdani whose showing what's possible with the next generation of dems, and is probably the best candidate with momentum to build around. I don't know if even that's enough though tbh.
He would be a strong candidate… if he had a larger public profile with the average voter.
I like him, but the average voter doesn’t know about him. He doesn’t even rank in battle ground polling.
If OP didn't follow up his name with his CV I wouldn't have remembered who it was...
I know who he is because I’m a space nerd and follow congressional politics closely, and I like him, but I also know that most voters don’t pay attention to congressional politics, nor remember the kind of news stories he’s showed up in.
Obama went from a nobody to an unbeatable candidate virtually overnight.