LOS ANGELES (AP) — As national Democrats search for a unifying theme ahead of the fall’s midterm elections, a California proposal to levy a hefty tax on billionaires is turning some of the party’s leading figures into adversaries just when Democrats can least afford division from within.
Bernie Sanders will be in Los Angeles campaigning Wednesday for the tax proposal that has the Silicon Valley in an uproar, with tech titans are threatening to leave the state. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is among its outspoken opponents, warning that it could leave government finances in crisis and put the state at a competitive disadvantage nationally.
The DNC can nudge the scales, but ultimately primary voters decide who is the candidate. Gavin Newsom just shot himself in the foot.
As far as I can tell the DNC basically decides who will be on the ballots for the primaries. (It’s not directly, but without them a candidate needs to run 50 well funded campaigns simultaneously)
Of course write-ins exist, but are not viable.
Its insane to me that you can look at every democrat primary in my lifetime and come to this conclusion.
If they have a primary, and even then they discriminate against candidates who aren’t part of the establishment.
This is true. But it also means we all need to get our shit together this time, and actually show up.