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In reply to the discussion: I was wondering what people's opinion is about a Beshear/Crockett ticket. [View all]pinkstarburst
(1,786 posts)in what could be until we see how these people perform running in their own primary. We can speculate that so and so would do great because they're a white straight male from a red state, but it may turn out they don't play well with voters on a national stage. Or maybe they do.
Kamala Harris has every last quality on paper to be the perfect president. Yet she never clicked with voters in the 2020 primary and dropped out early. One reason the 2024 election didn't go well was due to low democratic voter turnout. We can say someone would be perfect because they are a millennial, and hope that would equal millennial votes, but we have no way of knowing if an AOC or a Jasmine Crockett would result in millennials actually voting for them until we test it out. There was lots of buzz about how if Hillary picked Julian Castro, that would bring in young voters and Hispanic voters. She went with Kaine. But when Castro ran in his own primary in 2020, he also dropped out early, failing to drum up support.
Being young, or female, or a white male who might theoretically appeal to conservative voters, or from a certain swing state, doesn't necessarily mean a candidate will bring in votes from that demographic or bring in votes at all. We need to keep an open mind, and also keep a sharp eye on the primary, looking at how candidates actually perform, not how they have the theoretical possibility of performing.
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