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SKKY

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12. Good! Let's have a real, legit primary, and if she emerges...

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Oct 26, 2025, 07:34 AM

Sunday

...I'll happily support her. She's gonna have real competition, though. We have a very, very deep bench. These are just some of the names I expect will throw their hat in the ring, in no particular order.

1. Gavin Newsom
2. Gretchen Whitmer
3. Andy Beshear
4. Josh Shapiro
5. Hakeem Jeffries
6. Corey Booker
7. Pete Buttigieg
8. Wes Moore
9. Kamala Harris
10. JB Pritzker
11. AOC
12. Chris Murphy
13. Ruben Gallego

So, yea. Good on her. But, and I know we say this every cycle, this will indeed be the most important Democratic primary of our lifetime, and it will be brutal.

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