California Dem doubts someone from their state could win presidency since they're thought of as 'crazy people'

California Democrats astatine their yearly authorities normal had premix feelings astir whether idiosyncratic from their authorities could triumph connected a nationalist level aft erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris mislaid successful 2024.

Delegates convened implicit the play with guests to induct caller members and program for the 2026 predetermination season. Although Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom person some been seen arsenic potential 2028 Democratic statesmanlike contenders, neither appeared astatine the convention, with Harris lone addressing the normal via video.

The normal mostly avoided discussions astir the 2028 election, with astatine slightest 1 delegate wondering if a wide Californian could triumph connected the nationalist signifier astatine all. 

CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS UNCERTAIN ABOUT KAMALA HARRIS’ POTENTIAL RUN FOR GOVERNOR

Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., has been seen arsenic a imaginable Democratic campaigner for president successful 2028. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

"I don’t cognize if a California Democrat tin triumph a statesmanlike election," delegate Jane Baulch-Enloe told the Los Angeles Times. "California is thought of arsenic the brainsick people... I don’t mean that successful a atrocious mode — though I cognize immoderate radical bash — but we bash things otherwise here."

Baulch-Enloe alternatively insisted California Democrats archetypal request to "get radical connected our broadside and assistance them recognize that we aren’t conscionable wacko liberals and thatch radical that it’s good to privation things" similar higher wages oregon cosmopolitan healthcare.

Other attendees, specified arsenic Asian American Pacific Islander caucus person Aref Aziz, argued that Democrats request to person a clearer position and connection connected the system if they privation to triumph much elections.

"When you look astatine a batch of our economies, California and New York, by each accounts, GDP, the numbers that you look at, they’re doing great," Aziz said. "But erstwhile it comes to the outgo that consumers are paying successful these places, they’re truthful precocious and truthful acold supra different countries that we extremity up diminishing immoderate worth determination is successful our GDP, due to the fact that everything’s truthful expensive."

However, not each delegates believed California’s wide policies would beryllium a hindrance to aboriginal elections.

LAURA: COURTESY OF HORRID LIBERAL POLICIES, CALIFORNIA IN A METAPHORIC SENSE, HAS BEEN BURNING FOR DECADES

Some delegates offered antithetic reasons wherefore then-Vice President Kamala Harris mislaid the 2024 elections too her wide politics. (Center: (Photo by Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images), Background: (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))

"People similar to constituent a digit somewhere, and I deliberation California is an casual target, but I disagree," delegate Melissa Taylor told the LA Times. "Because I deliberation that California is lasting up for values that the Democratic Party believes in, similar we judge successful labor, we judge successful healthcare, we judge successful women’s rights, we judge successful rights for LGBTQ people."

Jodi Hicks, the president of Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California, added that Harris’ nonaccomplishment was prompted by aggregate "unique" factors, including her abbreviated three-month campaign, alternatively than politics. However, she agreed Democrats request "to locomotion and chew gum astatine the aforesaid time" erstwhile it comes to promoting wide policies and helping the economy.

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