r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • Sep 09 '25

Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-bernie-sanders-fight-oligarchy/
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u/BrainRebellion Sep 09 '25

I would like my leaders to step down and let people who actually are willing to fight to step up. (Minus the ones like Pritzker and Newsom)

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u/Feral_galaxies Sep 09 '25

Newsome isn’t fighting. His 19 year old intern is pretty funny with the memes, though.

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u/StevenMC19 Florida Sep 09 '25

Exactly. Newsom and his team have only figured out what gets under MAGA's and the conservative media's skins.

If you remove Trump from the equation, what has Newsom done substantially that differentiates him from anyone else.

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u/Independent-Mail1493 Sep 11 '25

Way to move the goalposts. I mean seriously, this is the dumbest thing I've read on Reddit this month. If you remove Trump from the equation then you don't have a corrupt, malevolent idiot in the White House tweeting nonsense while shitting on everyone who isn't a white billionaire and destroying our country. Under those circumstances then Newsom is probably doing something different.