Activist Democratic presidential candidate, looking to help put Ezra Klein’s open convention plan into action.

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Let me first thank everyone I’ve had the pleasure of meeting during my travels. I’m just a small business owner from Colorado looking to bring about big conversations and you all have been exceedingly welcoming. There’s no campaign bus, no getting ferried around in fancy jets or campaign advance teams, just a lot of driving, conversations, and taking in the landscape. For all of you who have opened your homes to host a tired traveler, thank you – it all helps and is very much appreciated.

 

All those miles were traveled for a reason: so we don’t hand Donald Trump the election. And the course we’re on, we’re doing exactly that.

 

The problem isn’t a Trump vs. Biden election, the problem is a Trump vs. Biden vs. Kennedy/Shanahan election. When Kennedy is on the ballot in Arizona, Nevada, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, we lose, badly. Kennedy brings the name, Shanahan brings the cash, greedflation and absurd housing costs bring the disillusionment. Trump sweeps all but Wisconsin.

 

Dig into the polling data for yourselves, it’s all publicly available and free, and frightening. Search “Wall Street Journal Targeted Presidential States March 2024 pdf” to find it (or here’s the link).

 

But don’t rely on poll data, be your own pollster right now. Call/text a brother, sister, son, daughter, niece, or nephew. Ask them what they feel about the election. Ask them how they feel about the candidates. The purpose of my campaign is to bring about these questions, many more, and conversations, ones that will shape our future. What is our dream ticket to win in November? And how do we get there?

 

As Ezra Klein put it back in February (even before Nicole Shanahan joined the Kennedy ticket), “there’s a very good chance he [Biden] might lose. Maybe even better than even odds. And Trump is dangerous. I want better odds than that.”

 

In his “Democrats Have a Better Option Than Biden” audio essay (link), Klein lays out a path to defeating Trump; his vision for that path is an open convention, where delegates at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago would come together “to organize victory”. (selecting a new nominee, building a dream ticket). As for that ticket, he floats a list of party talent, in addition to Vice President Harris: “Gretchen Whitmer, Wes Moore, Jared Polis, Gavin Newsom, Raphael Warnock, Josh Shapiro, Cory Booker, Ro Khanna, Pete Buttigieg, Gina Raimondo, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Chris Murphy, Andy Beshear, J.B. Pritzker”.

 

It would be a ticket purpose-built to energize the party, sideline Kennedy, and defeat Trump. A ticket to organize victory.

 

But how do the Idaho presidential caucuses and I play into this, you may ask. The answer is simple: you can be the catalyst that changes the course of the election. A vote for me in the caucus is a vote for a message beyond any single candidate, a nudge to Joe Biden to consider whether it’s time to pass on the torch; a nudge for Biden to himself decide:

 

“That he does not want to risk being Ruth Bader Ginsburg — a heroic, brilliant public servant who caused the outcome she feared most because she didn’t retire early enough. That in stepping aside he would be able to finish out his term as a strong and focused president, and people would see the honor in what he did, in putting his country over his ambitions.”

 

- Ezra Klein

 

A nudge to change history, and one that is in your hands.

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Together, let’s organize victory.

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David

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