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Obama's comments appear in a new video supporting Gavin Newsom's Proposition 50 which would allow the California legislature to draw new congressional boundaries ahead of the midterms

Barack Obama has entered the political fray ahead of November's special election in California, accusing Republicans of attempting to "rig the next election" in a new ad backing Governor Gavin Newsom's Proposition 50, a ballot measure that could reshape the state's congressional map.

"Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years," Obama says in the 30-second ad, urging voters to approve the proposal. "You can stop Republicans in their tracks."

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[–] webdox@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Biden beat Trump soundly in 2020. You can blame the Dem PTB and Biden all you want but Biden 2020 clearly wasn't Biden 2024. Americans were unsatisfied with someone who was obviously in the throws of late onset Dementia. No one can predict what is going to happen cognitively with old people and it can happen rather quickly. The same exact fate might befall Trump before 2028 when he thinks he is going to run again before you give the nod to JD.

2020 to 2024 was also a period when the GOP smear machine was eviscerating everything Biden did with the complicit help of the Conservative MSM from Trump's Afghanistan withdraw that he, himself drew up to Hunter's laptop and dick. They were wildly successful painting the Dems, not just Biden, as weak, intellectual cucks. Gavin is not that. He is the anti that. He comes off as a man's man. Something that is required to win in this day and age. As you should be able to tell by now, policy means jack shit to the American voter any longer. Stance on issues means less. The want a talking head that looks good in front of the camera and talks America first talk. The young male voters want "Alpha Males" that show uo to UFC fights and then hosts them on the WH lawn. The game has changed forever. Time to start playing it right.

Craziness would be to run a woman again. Gavin's Trump-esque Tweets have gotten more people excited about the rub in in their face retribution the base is yearning for right now. These traitors need to be punished, first in the court of public opinion ,then at the ballot box, and ultimately in the courts. Those 4 years of the Dems doing nothing to counter the momentum Trump continued to gain every day might go down as the turning point in our Democracy . We will find that in in a few, short months.