San Fran Progressives Fume As The Moderates Take Over!

The city by the bay is putting the brakes on far left policies.

The city and county of San Fransisco, California has a population of 804,000 residents. It is an Alpha city with the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Giants, the Golden State Warriors, the San Francisco 49ers [which play in Santa Clara] and the iconic Lombard Street. Streetcars, Market Street and the Pier are notable for famous landmarks and history.

It has been a crown for technology and openness to the LGBTQ community. It has one of the largest Asian American populations by far. Its mayor is the first African American woman to serve. 

The current lawmakers who represent the city are longtime Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Speaker Emeritus and 1st term member, Rep. Kevin Mullin (D-CA). Vice President Kamala Harris was then the District Attorney for the city and county.

The city is a place for tourists and crime.

Also known for progressive politics, the city often favors Democrats on a ratio 4:1.

Crime has become a burden on the city. It has been well documented bicycle thefts, car break ins, property theft in broad daylight, shoplifting in retail outlets without any interactions, open use of drugs and violent indivuals because of mental illness.

The cost of living in San Francisco is extremely high.

Retail outlets are permanently leaving the city.

The far right media and Republican lawmakers scapegoat the city as a wedge issue to attack Democrats and President Joe Biden.

San Francisco mayor London Breed is getting tough on crime.

Mayor London Breed and the city leaders are moving towards policing the city with strict enforcement and pushing for stronger penalties for repeat offenders.

With San Francisco voters approving Proposition E, granting police new powers, and Proposition F tying drug screenings to public assistance, some are questioning if the city has shifted from its most progressive policies.

Breed, who backed both measures, says their passage does not indicate that the city is straying from its progressive principles in its push for safety.

"San Francisco continues to push forward our values in extraordinary ways, and we have not abandoned those," said Breed. "But, we also need accountability."

Supervisor Ahsha Safai, who is running for mayor, says the results show a city hungry for change. 

"Voters want change, they want to see new leadership around all the different issues San Francisco is facing," said Safai. "People are concerned about public safety, rightfully so. People are worried about the crisis on the streets, mental health, drug abuse."

Mark Farrell, the most recent candidate to jump into the mayor's race, also sees voters looking for change. 

This happens in San Francisco and many are frustrated.

"Look, San Francisco needs to change direction," said Farrell. "The last six years have literally seen our city crumble, and we need to do an about-face in the city, incredible momentum last night."

Daniel Lurie, also running for mayor, says the policies voters approved reflect a more nuanced snapshot of the city's electorate than simply looking at it as progressive or moderate. 

"The electorate, the citizens, of San Francisco are absolutely, absolutely looking for change from the outside," said Lurie. "That's what we saw yesterday, and that's what we're going to get in November."

San Francisco State University political science professor Jason McDaniel said looking at the election results to gauge if voters have fundamentally shifted their positions is too simplistic. He said the results need to be looked at in context. 

"I wouldn't say progressivism is out, but the electorate has certainly rejected some of the policies that progressive organizations and leaders have put forward," said McDaniel.

GrowSF pushed for a lot of the ballot measures that won last night. That organization said being a progressive city and a well-policed city aren't at odds. 

But, the ACLU of Northern California said the measures that passed weakened oversight and undermined reforms that were put in place to protect the public.

Dean Phillips Out!

The party of one.

The winners and losers of 2024.

Did you know Marianne Williamson unsuspended her campaign? 

Yet, she is already eliminated despite her return to the presidential race. 

Anyway, Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) finally ended his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Super Tuesday proved to be a very good night for President Joe Biden. 

He carried every state including Phillips' home state of Minnesota.

Phillips announced on social media he will suspend his presidential run and endorsed Biden going into the general against presumptive Republican nominee Donald J. Trump.

Phillips told WCCO Radio in Minneapolis that he was endorsing Biden, saying “there is only one choice” in an expected fall matchup with Republican Donald Trump.

In 2011, I hosted then VP Biden at my home. Most notable was his empathy and kindness to my daughters and the catering staff, with whom he sat and had ice cream (surprise-surprise). His decency and wisdom were rarities in politics then, and even more so today.

Over a decade… pic.twitter.com/e3mGNU7u2C

— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) March 6, 2024

Phillips, a 55-year-old multimillionaire who is among the richest members of Congress, built his White House bid around calls for a new generation of Democratic leadership while spending freely from his personal fortune. But the little-known congressman ultimately failed to resonate with the party’s voters.

Phillips was the only elected Democrat to challenge Biden for the presidency. Phillips’ failure to gain traction is further proof that Democratic voters are behind the 81-year-old Biden even if many have misgivings about his age or his reelection prospects.

Biden called Phillips on Wednesday after the congressman ended his candidacy, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversation.

The president has long cast himself as uniquely qualified to beat Trump again, and Biden’s reelection campaign largely ignored Phillips except to point out that the congressman voted with the administration nearly 100% of the time in Congress.

And, Jason Palmer.

— Dean Phillips (@deanbphillips) March 6, 2024

Phillips often argued Biden was too old to serve a second term. But in a social media post Wednesday, Phillips noted that Biden had once visited his home while Biden was vice president and that his “decency and wisdom were rarities in politics then, and even more so today.”

Phillips said in the WCCO interview that while he thinks Biden “is at a stage in life where his capacities are diminished, he is still a man of competency and decency and integrity. And the alternative, Donald Trump is a very dangerous, dangerous man.”

Phillips back Biden and will not seek a No Labels bid.

The congressman’s endorsement of Biden foreclosed the prospects of third-party challenge by Phillips on a potential No Labels ticket. But he said he hopes Nikki Haley, the last major Trump rival on the Republican side, who suspended her campaign Wednesday, considers an independent bid. Phillips said that would draw votes away from Trump and help Biden’s reelection chances, while other independents in the race would just peel off Biden votes and aid Trump.

“I believe wholeheartedly, effusively, there is only one choice, and that is Joe Biden. ... At the end of the day, this is really a very stark choice and a very simple contrast,” Phillips said.

A centerpiece of Phillips’ campaign to upset Biden was in New Hampshire, where he campaigned hard, hoping to capitalize on state Democrats’ frustration over a new plan by the Democratic National Committee, championed by Biden, reordering the party’s 2024 presidential primary calendar by leading off with South Carolina on Feb. 3.

But instead of pulling off a New Hampshire surprise, Phillips finished a distant second in the state’s unsanctioned primary, behind a write-in campaign in which Democrats voted for Biden despite his name not appearing on the ballot.

After that defeat, Phillips pressed on to South Carolina and the primary’s formal start. But the DNC didn’t schedule any primary debates, and some states’ Democratic parties, including North Carolina and Florida, are not even planning to hold primaries — making it even more difficult to challenge the sitting president. Phillips lost South Carolina and every other state in which he competed.

Before Minnesota’s primary on Super Tuesday, hardly any of nearly two dozen Democratic voters interviewed in Phillips’ congressional district mentioned his presidential campaign. James Calderaro of Hopkins knew Phillips was a candidate but dismissed him as “a distraction.” Calderaro and others said they were backing Biden for the best chance of stopping Trump in November.

Phillips finished a distant third in the Minnesota primary with about 8% of the vote, compared with about 19% for “uncommitted” and 71% for Biden.

Phillips has already announced he’s not seeking reelection in his suburban Minneapolis congressional district. He is heir to his stepfather’s Phillips Distilling Co. empire and served as that company’s president, but he also ran the gelato maker Talenti. His grandmother was Pauline Phillips, better known as the advice columnist Dear Abby.

Driving a gelato truck helped Phillips win his first House campaign in 2018, when he unseated five-term Republican Erik Paulsen. While Phillips’ district in mostly affluent greater Minneapolis has become more Democratic-leaning, he stressed that he is a moderate focused on his suburban constituents.

While running for president, however, Phillips moved further to the left, endorsing fully government-funded health care through “Medicare for All.”

Haley Out!

The last one to take on Trump is out.

The winners and losers of 2024.

Former U.N. Ambassador and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley will suspend her campaign. After a disappointing series of losses to former president Donald J. Trump, the last Republican in the race is going to end her bid for president.

Thus, Trump will be Republican nominee designate.

Some factors to why she couldn't win.

1. She is a woman.

2. She is a woman of color. Trump's supporters are racist.

3. She was considered a traitor because she went up against her old boss.

4. She was too damn cocky.

5. She was betrayed by Gov. Henry McMaster, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).

6. The RNC had their thumb on the scale for Trump. They allowed him to get away with not participating in debates. Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, Asa Hutchinson, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy and Larry Elder grumbled about how the rules were unfair and how they allowed Trump to bypass rules.

So Haley will either endorse Trump or choose to stay out of it. 

Republicans also forced Ronna McDaniel out. The Republican chairwoman has now resigned and it sets up a competitive race for who will lead the party and how the Republican National Convention will be set in Milwaukee. Trump has endorsed North Carolina Republican chairman Michael Whatley and his daughter in law Lara Trump to lead the Republican Party.

Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie also made it clear: Haley didn't have the balls to take on Trump. She raised her hand towards supporting Trump even if he was convicted of a crime. The former president used it to his advantage.

Trump did a whisper campaign. He criticized her race, her loyalty to the Republican Party, her husband's military service, her governorship and her being a woman.

Three people with direct knowledge who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly confirmed Haley’s decision ahead of an announcement by her scheduled for Wednesday morning.

Haley is not planning to endorse Trump in her announcement, according to the people with knowledge of her plans. Instead, she is expected to encourage him to earn the support of the coalition of moderate Republicans and independent voters who supported her.

Haley, a former South Carolina governor and U.N. ambassador, was Trump’s first significant rival when she jumped into the race in February 2023. She spent the final phase of her campaign aggressively warning the GOP against embracing Trump, whom she argued was too consumed by chaos and personal grievance to defeat President Joe Biden in the general election.

Her departure clears Trump to focus solely on his likely rematch in November with Biden. The former president is on track to reach the necessary 1,215 delegates to clinch the Republican nomination later this month.

Haley’s defeat marks a painful, if predictable, blow to those voters, donors and Republican Party officials who opposed Trump and his fiery brand of “Make America Great Again” politics. She was especially popular among moderates and college-educated voters, constituencies that will likely play a pivotal role in the general election. It’s unclear whether Trump, who recently declared that Haley donors would be permanently banned from his movement, can ultimately unify a deeply divided party.

Trump on Tuesday night declared that the GOP was united behind him, but in a statement shortly afterward, Haley spokesperson Olivia Perez-Cubas said, “Unity is not achieved by simply claiming, ‘We’re united.’”

Haley was Trump's UN Ambassador from 2017 until 2019.

“Today, in state after state, there remains a large block of Republican primary voters who are expressing deep concerns about Donald Trump,” Perez-Cubas said. “That is not the unity our party needs for success. Addressing those voters’ concerns will make the Republican Party and America better.”

Haley leaves the 2024 presidential contest having made history as the first woman to win a Republican primary. She beat Trump in the District of Columbia on Sunday and Vermont on Tuesday.

She had insisted she would stay in the race through Super Tuesday and crossed the country campaigning in states holding Republican contests. Ultimately, she was unable to knock Trump off his glide path to a third straight nomination.

Haley’s allies note that she exceeded most of the political world’s expectations by making it as far as she did.

She had initially ruled out running against Trump in 2024. But she changed her mind and ended up launching her bid three months after he did, citing among other things the country’s economic troubles and the need for “generational change.” Haley, 52, later called for competency tests for politicians over the age of 75 — a knock on both Trump, who is 77, and President Joe Biden, who is 81.

Her candidacy was slow to attract donors and support, but she ultimately outlasted all of her other GOP rivals, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Tim Scott, her fellow South Carolinian whom she appointed to the Senate in 2012. And the money flowed in until the very end. Her campaign said it raised more than $12 million in February alone.

She gained popularity with many Republican donors, independent voters and the so-called “Never Trump” crowd, even though she criticized the criminal cases against him as politically motivated and pledged that, if president, she would pardon him if he were convicted in federal court.

As the field consolidated, she and DeSantis battled it out through the early-voting states for a distant second to Trump. The two went after each other in debates, ads and interviews, often more directly than they went after Trump.

The campaign’s focus on foreign policy following Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel in October tilted the campaign into Haley’s wheelhouse, giving her an opportunity to showcase her experience from the U.N., tying the war to her conservative domestic priorities and arguing that both Israel and the U.S. could be made vulnerable by what she called “distractions.”

Haley was slow to criticize her former boss directly.

As she campaigned across early states, Haley often complimented some of Trump’s foreign policy achievements but gradually inserted more critiques into her campaign speeches. She argued Trump’s hyperfocus on trade with China led him to ignore security threats posed by a major U.S. rival. She warned that weak support for Ukraine would “only encourage” China to invade Taiwan, a viewpoint shared by several of her GOP rivals, even as many Republican voters questioned whether the U.S. should send aid to Ukraine.

In November, Haley — an accountant who had consistently touted her lean campaign — won the backing of the political arm of the powerful Koch network. AFP Action blasted early-state voters with mailers and door-knockers, committing its nationwide coalition of activists and virtually unlimited funds to helping Haley defeat Trump.

Judge Judy couldn't save Nikki Haley.

With Trump refusing to participate in primary debates, Haley went head-to-head with DeSantis in a single debate, displaying a combative style that seemed to sit poorly with even those committed to support her in the Iowa caucuses. She would finish third.

Haley’s name emerged as a possible running mate for Trump, with the former president reportedly asking allies what they thought of adding her to his possible ticket. As Haley appeared to gain ground, some of Trump’s backers worked to tamp down the notion.

While Haley initially notably declined to rule out the possibility, she said while campaigning in New Hampshire in January that serving as “anybody’s vice president” is “off the table.”

After DeSantis exited the campaign following Trump’s record-setting win in the Iowa caucuses, Haley hoped that New Hampshire voters would feel so strongly about keeping the former president away from the White House that they would turn out to support her in large numbers.

“America does not do coronations,” Haley said at a VFW hall in Franklin on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. “Let’s show all of the media class and the political class that we’ve got a different plan in mind, and let’s show the country what we can do.”

But she would lose New Hampshire and then refused to participate in Nevada’s caucuses, arguing the state’s rules strongly favored Trump. She instead ran in the state’s primary, which didn’t count for any delegates for the nomination. She still finished a distant second to “ none of these candidates,” an option Nevada offers to voters dissatisfied with their choices and used by many Trump supporters to oppose her.

She had long vowed to win South Carolina but backed off of that pledge as the primary drew nearer. She crisscrossed the state that twice elected her governor on a bus tour, holding smaller events than Trump’s less frequent rallies and suggesting she was better equipped to beat Biden than him.

She lost South Carolina by 20 points and Michigan three days later by 40. The Koch brothers’ AFP Action announced after her South Carolina loss that it would stop organizing for her.

But by staying in the campaign, Haley drew enough support from suburbanites and college-educated voters to highlight Trump’s apparent weaknesses with those groups.

Haley has made clear she doesn’t want to serve as Trump’s vice president or run on a third-party ticket arranged by the group No Labels. She leaves the race with an elevated national profile that could help her in a future presidential run.

In recent days, she backed off a pledge to endorse the eventual Republican nominee that was required of anyone participating in party debates.

“I think I’ll make what decision I want to make,” she told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Adam Schiff And Steve Garvey Face Off In California Senate Race!

California picks Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey to face off in competitive Senate race.

California Senate primary contenders advance. 

The winners and losers of 2024.

A nonpartisan blanket primary is a primary election in which all candidates for the same elected office run against each other at once, regardless of the political party. Partisan elections are, on the other hand, segregated by political party. Nonpartisan blanket primaries are slightly different from most other elections systems with two rounds/a runoff, also known as "jungle primaries" (such as the Louisiana primary), in a few ways. The first round of a nonpartisan blanket primary is officially the "primary." Round two is the "general election." Round two must be held, even if one candidate receives a majority in the first round.

In addition, there is no separate party nomination process for candidates before the first round. Also, political parties are not allowed to whittle down the field using their internal techniques (such as party primaries or conventions). It is entirely possible that multiple candidates of the same political party advance to the general election.

In most cases, two winners advance to the general election, in which case it is also called a top-two primary. If more than two candidates are selected for the general election, it may be known as a top-four primary or top-five primary. It is also known as a jungle primary.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Republican Steve Garvey will face off in the general election.

Schiff, the leading impeachment manager of former president Donald J. Trump's two impeachment trials and a pro-Israeli lawmaker is facing off against a former MLB player and pro-Israeli Republican. Garvey played for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1969 until 1982 and the San Diego Padres from 1983 until 1987. Garvey is a self admitted adulterer.

I have this race as LIKELY DEMOCRATIC.

Katie Porter gave up a crucial seat for her showboating.

Do not underestimate the race. A lot of young voters are turned off by lawmakers who are staunchly pro-Israel. To make this clear: A lot of people are dismissing the voters who oppose Israel but backed President Joe Biden in 2020. Biden is losing favor with young voters, Arab Americans, Black and Muslim voters.

The Pro Biden and Pro Trump influencers on X and Meta are calling people antisemitic because they are pro-Palestinian. They are dismissing claims that Israel is committed to genocide and is ignoring international law.

It is a waste of time to vote for the two of them. They both support Israel. California will nominate two old men who are not willing to challenge the status quo. 

Trump is the very definition of white privilege.

Biden is stuck on status quo.

Schiff and Garvey will be noise not results.

They are not willing to change course on policies. 

Schiff was booted from his committees by former lawmaker Kevin McCarthy thanks to Fox (in particular Sean "Softball" Hannity). Schiff was accused by Republicans of misleading Americans with propaganda. The Republicans were upset over Schiff pressing for Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate Trump.

Barbara Lee is out. 

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) will not advance. They will be forced into retirement. They were considered noise. Porter was already struggling after some damaging reports about her behavior were leaked. She had a known temper and was accused of saying inappropriate things towards staff. Porter was painted as insufferable. The infamous book reading during the Speakership nomination proved her seriousness.

Lee, a longtime Black lawmaker was hammered by AIPAC. Lee told a story about being a Black teen who got pregnant and had her first abortion. Lee shared too much information.

Lee stood for women's rights, Black reparations and wanted to hold Israel accountable for its actions. She also made mistakes. Her district which includes Oakland was under fire for crime. It also lost the NFL Raiders to Las Vegas. The MLB A's will move to Las Vegas in 2025.

The NBA's Golden State Warriors moved to San Francisco. That also plagued Lee. They painted her as ineffective in getting things done. 

Laphonza Bulter getting sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris.

She was hoping Gavin Newsom appointed her. She was begging for attention. Lee was angry that he picked another Black woman over her.

Sen. Laphonza Bulter (D-CA) would have been a far better choice than Schiff. She made a commitment to not run and allowed the three Democrats duke it out for the nomination.

She is the first openly gay Black senator.

Butler was appointed to the Senate after Dianne Feinstein passed away. Feinstein was the oldest member of the Senate. Her health was in decline and progressive Democrats were upset she didn't retire or resign in the Trump years. Black progressives were feverishly pushing for Black representation since then California senator Kamala Harris was elected with Joe Biden. Harris is the first African American and woman become Vice President of the United States. 

Supa Toos Day!

The rematch.

Briefly.

It is a major primary day and Americans voted.

The results of the races on Super Tuesday are showing that President Joe Biden and former president Donald J. Trump will likely have a rematch come this fall.

Super Tuesday results show that the former president is carrying almost every state and has a firm grip on the party despite his legal and money woes.

Voters in 16 states and one U.S. territory head to the polls this Super Tuesday to cast ballots in the 2024 presidential primary race and other contests.

American Samoa and the following states will hear from voters: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia. Iowa will release the results of its mail-in Democratic caucus. 

Trump won Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Maine, Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Colorado, Minnesota and Tennessee. He won Iowa, U.S. Virgin Islands, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Michigan, Missouri, Idaho and North Dakota.

Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley only carried the Vermont and the  District of Columbia.

Republican presidential vote count progress

 TRUMP WIN

 HALEY

POLL CLOSE	STATE	EST. VOTES COUNTED
7 p.m.	Vermont	91%
	Virginia	95
7:30 p.m.	North Carolina	90
8 p.m.	Alabama	62
	Maine	71
	Massachusetts	53
	Oklahoma	98
	Tennessee	89
	Texas	60
8:30 p.m.	Arkansas	86
9 p.m.	Colorado	80
	Minnesota	74
10 p.m.	Utah	0
11 p.m.	California	0
12 a.m.	Alaska	0

AP’s estimate of ballots counted may shift as it is revised and updated based on incoming no data. It will not exceed 99% until election officials certify the final vote count, at which point it will go to 100%. States that hold caucuses or conduct all-mail elections will begin reporting results at the listed poll close time.

It appears to be over for Haley. She didn't end up winning many Super Tuesday states.

Biden easily won his despite the problems he has going into the general.

Democratic presidential vote count progress

 BIDEN WIN

POLL CLOSE	STATE	EST. VOTES COUNTED
5:30 p.m.	Iowa	97%
7 p.m.	Vermont	94
	Virginia	96
7:30 p.m.	North Carolina	91
8 p.m.	Alabama	74
	Maine	60
	Massachusetts	48
	Oklahoma	98
	Tennessee	78
	Texas	56
8:30 p.m.	Arkansas	91
9 p.m.	Colorado	79
	Minnesota	74
10 p.m.	Utah	59
11 p.m.	California	1

AP’s estimate of ballots counted may shift as it is revised and updated based on incoming no data. It will not exceed 99% until election officials certify the final vote count, at which point it will go to 100%. States that hold caucuses or conduct all-mail elections will begin reporting results at the listed poll close time.

Updated

Mar 5, 2024, 11:09 PM

Biden lost the Democratic caucuses on the U.S. territory of American Samoa to an obscure candidate in a surprising result that comes amid a string of Super Tuesday wins. 

The race was called Tuesday night by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), who confirmed the results with the Democratic Party of American Samoa.

It is practically over for Dean Phillips. He has not won any state. The fool continues to push forward for the time being. It will be the end of the road soon for Haley and Phillips.