David Pakman

There's no question about it.

They clearly put Harris, AOC and Newsom in the sort of top tier at this stage, looking only at favorability.

But every single one of those candidates has a significant portion of the party that's just not on board with them for different reasons.

You know, there's the Kamala Harris skepticism.

from a lot of directions, including people who question her political instincts.

Those who say, if you just lost, should you be the nominee again?

That doesn't make sense.

Or that she's not left enough or whatever.

There's a lot of different reasons that some are saying Kamala Harris is not a good idea.

There's a bunch of enthusiasm behind Congresswoman AOC, especially among progressives in the Democratic Party.

But there are a lot of voters in the Democratic Party that just don't think that she is experienced enough or that she really can't win a general election.

Now, we're going to come back to this idea of but can they win the general?

You then have Gavin Newsom.

Gavin Newsom, interestingly, has built solid support.

But he has a reputation for being polarizing.

One view is polarizing is bad.

Another view is no polarizing is good.

You want about 30 percent of the population hating you because it generates media.

And then there are people on the left who simply don't like him for policy reasons.

You then have, you know, even somebody like Pete Buttigieg.