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displacedvermoter

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12. If she were defeated by Johnson

Reply to ColinC (Reply #11)

Sat Jan 4, 2025, 02:43 PM

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I am willing to bet that she would be defeated two years later. She's guaranteed to be primaried by folks who see her as beatable, certain fund raisers and donors would question whether she was a good risk, the media would call her a loser from day one, as would the GOP who would go after her with another multimillionaire MAGA candidate.

So there is that!

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