Mike Nellis

Maybe it's Josh Pierre.

Maybe it's somebody that nobody's talking about right now.

I want that fight, and I want it for a number of different reasons.

One, it's the best Democratic way to decide the future of the Democratic Party, period.

Two, you're going to develop so much talent inside the Democratic Party from 20 Democratic campaigns.

I don't think people know that, like, when Wes Clark ran for president in 2004, he didn't win, but so much of the leadership that would go on to help Democrats flip the House two years later came off of Wes Clark's campaign, went on Barack Obama's campaign.

Same thing with Howard Dean.

The people who built the online fundraising mechanism, a lot of the people who built the online fundraising program for Barack Obama in 2008 had done it for Howard Dean four years earlier.

You develop new techniques, new style, new technology.

And part of the reason the Democratic Party is struggling right now in this last election is we didn't have 10 well-funded presidential campaigns to develop technology.

new leaders, new junior staff, new technology, new tactics.

And that's killing us right now.

And Republicans didn't have that either, to be clear.

But they had a massive presidential campaign that just had a ton of money from day one with Trump.

And so they were able to do that.

And so I don't care who runs relative.

I mean, I have my candidates that I prefer privately and some of which some of them might work for.

But everybody should run big, messy primary.

Let it play out.

We'll be a better party for it, just like we were in 2008.