Mike Nellis

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.

is the best suited for the general election?

I think it's definitely possible.

But here's my thing is a lot of people on the Internet talk with great certainty about things that can happen or won't happen.

And then things those things happen, like unlikely things happen all the time.

If a guy like Bernie Sanders was going to win in twenty sixteen, it would have been because a lot of like unlikely voters turned out for him.

Now, a lot of unlikely voters turned out for Donald Trump in twenty sixteen and in twenty twenty and helped him win those elections.