M-more people voted against Trump than v-voted for him

There's a few Democratic governors they could pick, but none are super inspiring.

I know these guys promised to be a sock salesman and not a politician

but if the DNC asked really nicely, maybe one of them would be like

(It's the guy that does the crash course videos, and his brother who wrote "A Fault in our Stars", they fricking love science, and can public speak)

Either one would make a interesting VP

Shapiro and Whitmer are the names I see some throw around. The more radical even propose Newsom but I agree with the view that he'd get gaped in the general election.

There's always Hilldawg I guess.

They don't even have Bernie, because there's no way in heck they'd let him win the primaries and his disillusioned base knows it.

I read an article saying Shapiro was too ambitious, which is why Harris picked Walz as her running mate over him - good ol' governor Tim was happy to be her lapdog, whereas Shapiro wanted to use the VP position as a jumping-off point for his own presidential run later, and that didn't suit Queen Kamala at all.

I guess now Shapiro is delighted he dodged the bullet there and is free of any association with that disaster of a campaign so he's free to throw his hat into the ring for 2028.

I know the dem candidate pool is lame but Tulsi Gabtard and R-slur Fredo Kennedy leaving are hardly a loss

A bit from both columns. I think HIllary ruthlessly suppressed any hint of possible competition when she was going, because it was Her Turn Now and she'd spent long enough waiting while that upstart Obama took her rightful throne. Any kind of competent rival was totally unacceptable, and her grasp on the DNC was such that they just did what she told them to do.

Though the DNC of the time seems to have been a bunch of incompetents, so that was also in play - they fell under Hillary's control because they were up to their necks in debt, and her campaign promised to bail them out if the DNC just say "How high?" every time Hillary said "Jump!"

I still can't believe Trump won that election, but given the way Hillary was so sure it was her victory and how visibly impatient about having to ask the plebs for their votes she was, she deserved the loss.

It's working out well, because of Trump's outsized influence. What happens after Trump remains to be seen.

True, but Trumps base can't begin to be compared to Kamala's in terms of devotion and enthusiasm (for better or worse). The math was very different.

I think Whitmer is probably their best bet if they want First Female Ever, but you know the progressive wing would scream blue murder about picking a white cis het woman.

It's 49.8 % (including write-ins)

He won more votes than her, so that's winning the popular vote. Even if he only had one vote more than her, he would have won it. There is no "you have to win by this amount to be declared popular vote winner" rule.

They just can't and won't accept that he won, and that more of the voting population of the country picked him than those who picked the Coconut Queen.

Maybe? But definitionally more people would still have voted for him percentage wise than Kamala, 99.1 percent of the vote is counted and she'll still be lagging behind

It's already below 50 %. 49.86 % atm including write-ins. Though it's 50.35 % when you add the RFK votes to the Trump tally