According to NBC News, “California Gov. Gavin Newsom is increasingly being viewed as a nuisance to some of President Joe Biden’s political advisers, according to four people familiar with the matter. … Harris allies take particular umbrage at what they see as Newsom’s attempt to position himself for the 2028 Democratic presidential primarily at the expense of the vice president. ‘It’s disrespectful,’ said one outside adviser to Harris. ‘Joe Biden is running with Kamala Harris. That’s the Democratic ticket.’”
And this from The Hill, “The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey found that Americans were more likely to say age would be a problem for Biden rather than former President Trump, who is just a few years younger than the president. According to the poll, 77 percent of Americans — including 89 percent of Republicans and 69 percent of Democrats — said that Biden is too old to be effective for four more years.”
I think Newsom correctly senses a fundamental weakness in the Democratic ticket that dumbass Democrats ignore because they are constantly in happy-clappy, pie-in-the-sky mode. I hope idiot Democrats realize when people talk about Biden’s advanced age in a potential second term that the fear is not so much him dying as it is a Black woman being one heartbeat away from becoming president. Granted, that may have already been a consideration when people voted for Biden the first time, but during his presidential campaign, he had styled himself as a “bridge” president, meaning the one who would step in after the crisis of traitor trump to be a stop-gap to the next (younger) generational president. Now, however, with the entire country witnessing an allegedly “doddering” president (in large part a fabrication of people’s furtive imaginations — perception is reality), voters are more worried about a second term than before, and that “fear” comes wrapped in misogyny and racism as people start to believe, “Oh my God! Harris could be president.” (Nikki Haley is the only one correctly saying the quiet part out loud.)
This is analogous to the McCain-Palin ticket, but Harris is far more accomplished and more intelligent than Palin ever was, but bigotry is the great equalizer; people correctly feared f***tard Palin being one heart attack away from the presidency, and voters, now, are irrationally fearful of a Harris presidency because she’s Black. Personally, I would like a Harris presidency. I voted for her in the Democratic primary, but I understand the zeitgeist of America, and a Black female president is still out of the cards. Remember that in a primary, you’re allowed to vote for the person you fall in love with, but come the general election, you fall in line and vote for the one who has the potential to win (aka not a third-party candidate), which I did with Biden. Did I expect Harris to assume she would become the presumptive presidential candidate following Biden? Perhaps, but I had hoped — a dangerous word, I know — that reality would set in and enlighten Democratic leadership and voters would apprehend the glass ceiling, coupled with racism, is a limiting factor for Harris and now is not the time to test its fragility with traitor trump running in 2024. I don’t know exactly how Newsom should fit into a 2024 presidential bid calculus, but maybe people need to start doing the math now.