David Pakman

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

that in all recent elections, whoever was most talked about two and a half to three years out was never the eventual nominee counterpoint.

This time is different counterpoint.

This time there's an earlier discussion of who people want and therefore you can trust the polling to some degree.

So Democrats are going to have to figure this out.

There are major implications for 2028 because the path to winning is going to run through coalition building.

It's not going to be universal agreement.