Mike Nellis

It may have been that Bernie would have been better to peel off in twenty four.

Excuse me.

Sorry.

Let me be clear.

Donald Trump absolutely lost in 2020.

I don't want to get anybody mixed up on that.

But I don't know.

Like people ask me all the time if like I think AOC can win and like AOC can win in the same way that Mamdani can win and did win the primary.

It's because he brought in a lot of people who aren't normally part of the process like that.

I might have my policy disagreements with the two of them because I'm much more of a like.

you know, center left Democrat.

I would probably consider myself like a normie Democrat, not so much DSA, but I'm pretty like flexible if you have a good idea.

I just, I don't know.

People talk with certainty about things and I'm not always sure.

Now, the candidate that people talk about that right now is like Gavin Newsom.

They say Gavin Newsom might be able to win a Democratic primary right now, but he'd be DOA in a general election.

I don't know if that's true, but I do think like a California liberal who talks and looks the way that Gavin Newsom is, I've often joked that he was built in a laboratory for Republicans to run against him.

I like what he's doing right now.

If you were asking me to just like pluck a candidate, I would not pick Gavin Newsom.

I would probably pick like a Gretchen Whitmer or something like that, a Midwest Democrat that's much more appealing to the broader audience with a good sound record to run on.