Jonathan Chait

I mean, he's done all these things that are basically reverse engineered from Republican attack ads into policy.

Some of them he's had to like sort of face up to, right?

It's like giving Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants.

I'm for that.

on the merits, but politically that's absolutely toxic.

I mean, you would just get destroyed on, on, on that.

If he was, he was the nominee.

I think the whole governing record is filled with things on, on education, like every bad education fad hit, hit,

California is so hard.

The anti-being good at school stuff, basically, right?

The equity fads where we're going to basically take away algebra from high schoolers and in eighth graders and slow everything down.

And the ethnic studies fads and all the left-wing pedagogy hit the schools hard.

Right.

Like all the things that Kamala Harris was on record, he was for those things as well.

The whole abundance agenda was basically Ezra Klein looking at a state saying like, why can't the Democrats in my state get anything done?

And a lot of that stuff happened under Gavin Newsom.

So it's just a really, really bad record that I think would be extremely harmful if he's the nominee.

It doesn't mean he couldn't win.

Everyone's got weaknesses, right?

So