The poll comes as Newsom has taken a more aggressive position in standing up to President Donald Trump.

The poll indicates support for the more aggressive position Newsom has taken in standing up to Donald Trump, particularly over a plan by Republicans in Texas to redraw their state’s congressional seat map in the hopes of winning more seats in midterm elections next year.

The battle to become the 2028 presidential election candidate will likely set the new direction for the Democratic Party as it struggles with net favorability at what one recent poll showed to be a three-year low. Newsom has not formally announced his candidacy.

  • piefood@feddit.onlineEnglish
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    7 days ago
    • Please stop bombing kids
    • Please stop backing a genocide
    • Please make it so that Healthcare isn’t the leading cause of bankruptcy
    • Please make the rich pay taxes
    • Please stop giving our tax money away to your rich friends
    • Please help with the housing crisis
    • Please stop giving our tax money to the Military/Intelligence agencies
    • Please make education affordable
    • Please give people equal rights
    • Please stop torturing people
    • Please give us an increase in pay

    “idealists”

    I don’t think that word means what you think it means.

      • piefood@feddit.onlineEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        I never said that. There is an easy way to keep the GOP out: Put up a candidate with policies that the voters want. But the Democrats seem pretty allergic to that.

        • iridebikes@lemmy.world
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          6 days ago

          That’s literally what you’re saying… The vast majority of us agree on the bullet points and are very frustrated by the state of the US system… but in the face of what we are dealing with, we really don’t have the luxury of only voting for the perfect candidate. We know the Democrats suck. We get it. Lame Democrats or Authoritarian Republicans. Terrible options but clearly one is better than the other.

          • piefood@feddit.onlineEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            It’s literally not what I’m saying. I also never said that one party wasn’t better than the other. You are the one claiming that we’re waiting for a “perfect” candidate, I’m saying that we just want someone that isn’t a monster, and the Dems refuse to deliver on that.

            If they would stop supporting the facists, and stop handing the elections over to them, we’d have better options. But they’d rather lose and keep supporting facists, than allow the voters to pick someone that isn’t a monster.