David Pakman

The common refrain is a lot of people hate him.

He would be very easy to run against.

He's to California to be viable nationally.

By the way, Kamala Harris is also California, but that's a different story.

And so some go, oh, no, I don't know.

But he's better than Harris.

Then there's the AOC sort of consideration.

She is certainly more passion inspiring in younger and further left voters.

But would the donors get behind her?

I think if she were the nominee, the donors would get.

behind whoever has a chance to be president at the end of the day.

Now, let's step back from all of this because there's a very important caveat which you have to take into consideration.

We are really far from the actual election this early.

A lot of these polling numbers are simply name recognition.

Kamala Harris is very recognizable.

She was the nominee last time she was the vice president while being the nominee last time.

People know AOC.

People know Gavin Newsom.

And so it is totally plausible that these numbers are just not predictive of what's going to happen in twenty twenty eight.

I will remind you