please! There is nothing I would like more than having mayor Pete be the face of the Democrat party. He is a total loser. He simply cannot win. And most normal people rear like a shying stallion when faced with him.
Now of course, it will (sadly) never happen. African-American voters rightly loathe him and won’t vote for him. But it is a testament to how shallow the Democrat bench is that his name is even being bandied about. I mean, of course what we are seeing now is merely name recognition.
It would be easy to say that the Democrats are scraping the bottom of the barrel if any voters are taking Buttigieg seriously, but this is like there are infinite barrels they keep finding with new bottoms to scrape. The Dems’ bench doesn’t scare the GOP at all. Every name mentioned for 2028 is met with mockery and “Oh yeah, please run!” from this side of the aisle.
But the issue is that as of right now, there are no other hopefuls who are even possible. Maybe one will miraculously materialize, but anyone who is not already in the spotlight will likely never even sniff the Democrat nomination. The only potential candidates really are Pete Buttigieg, Gavin Newsom, and AOC. And none of those look very strong at all.
Who else is there? Maybe Josh Shapiro who is the governor of Pennsylvania, but that is a dog that don’t hunt. There is no way that the Muslims of Michigan will vote for him in any case–you think they are going to vote for a former IDF-volunteer Jew? SPOILER: they won’t DUH! And Democrats just cannot win without Michigan. So see ya, Josh!