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Democrats pretending to be Independents is nothing new.
All the outgoing congressional ‘independents’ are Democrats including Manchin and Sinema, who are leaving, Sen. Angus King, a Democrat pretending to be an Independent to fool Maine voters, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose only basis for being an ‘independent’, despite repeatedly running for the Democrat presidential nomination, is that the party isn’t yet sufficiently Communist enough for his tastes.
While there are some Republicans who try this in party machine liberal states and cities, it rarely works out well for them since a leftist media characterizes them as ‘right-wingers’ no matter how liberal they actually are.
But it really says something that post-2024 a bunch of Democrats are contemplating pretending to be indies to get over their toxic party brand.
Losing to a twice-impeached convicted felon has left a small, but growing, number of Democrats wondering if their party brand is so toxic that they should shed the label — particularly in battleground and red states.
Mike Duggan, the longtime Democratic mayor of Detroit, is pursuing an independent campaign for governor in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in his state. Democratic strategists are studying this year’s bid by independent Dan Osborn, who as a Senate candidate in Nebraska overperformed the top of the ticket, as a model to win the upper chamber. And a Joe Biden mega-fundraiser is floating a gubernatorial run in Florida on what he calls the “Capitalist Party” ticket.
Is this a scam? Of course, it’s a scam.
Some Democrats eye Osborn’s 14-point overperformance in Nebraska as proof that independent candidates who embrace economic populism can win back voters who are turned off by the Democratic Party.
A mechanic and former union leader, Osborn railed against big corporations during his campaign while also speaking positively about Trump’s border wall. He said on the trail that he wouldn’t caucus with either party, but even so, his victory would have helped Democrats by unseating the Republican incumbent, Deb Fischer. In fact, the Senate Democrats’ top super PAC quietly boosted Osborn.
Osborn, who has not ruled out another run in 2026, hopes more people run for office as independents. “That’s really what the country needs,” he told POLITICO.
Democrats who claim to be independents and promise not to caucus with Dems… inevitably do.
They’re also backed by Democrats even when they pretend not to be.
“Anyone looking at the Senate map, not just in 2026 but over the next six years and beyond, sees that we need a path to chipping into the Republican majority,” said a Democratic strategist who was granted anonymity to speak frankly. “And it doesn’t necessarily mean electing Democrats. But it means changing what the denominator is that we need to get to a majority.”
So rather than fixing the party, they’ll run trojan horse candidates. Will it work? Probably.
And not just in America.
Israeli politics has been defined by a completely toxic brand for the Labor Party and a variety of fake third parties fronted by retired generals who always turn out to be the Labor Party. At some point you would think the public would learn that former General Branja’s Branja party is really just a redressed version of the same third party that’s been popping in and out for the last 30 years, but he announces he’s running to create a new ‘centrist’ voice and a Maariv poll estimates that he will win 30 mandates and there we go.
Still it really says something that the Democrat brand so bad that they need to disguise who they are. The Dems may take the House in 2026, but I don’t think they’ve got a shot at the Senate unless Republicans implode spectacularly, and it’ll be trickier to do in a presidential race.
Nobody’s buying Gov. Newsom running as an independent.
Yeah well, like you wrote, they all have a burning pot of oil waiting for them in Hell. And hopefully demons with ten inch barbed dicks.
Yeah, I’ve watched them trying to covertly take over counties outside the immediate San Francisco Bay Area ever since I moved here.
Yes, I think they got Santa Clara county. I wouldn’t care except that I live here. They call this place “the South Bay.”
Leftists are scum.
Ah yes, their 72 bulldyke virgins that stay virgins, while they don’t.
Reminds me of the Norm McDonald’s joke about the 2016 election: Voters hated Hillary so much that they voted for someone they hated even more, Trump.
The Left, no matter where, not only lies without compunction, they also hate their own country. Yet too many voters are either easily fooled or also hate their own country.
I served in United States Navy and was honorably discharged. I swore an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That oath had no expiration date. My fidelity to that oath has never wavered and will only expire upon my death.
I’m loyal to my country, our Constitution and our flag and that’s extent of it. I have zero loyalty to political parties and nothing but enmity towards professional politicians and far left and far right miscreants. All are the bane of our existence.
The democrat party is the home of every loser and loser-to-be. If the democrats were honest, they’d rename themselves the Titticrats.
In NY state, campaign mailers (and signs too) typically show no party designation. Idk about elsewhere. I assumed it was so the mailers are not immediately tossed in the trash or crumbled in a rage. I find that annoying as I want to know the party. .
The mailers from the Democrats often display very unattractive pictures of their opponents with scary messaging about the Republican candidate. Those are easy to figure out.
There is absolutely an America/Israel leftist/labor parallel and symbiotic connection because: With the exception of Trump’s first term as president, Washington has always heavy handedly interfered in Israel’s policies, using Israel, constraining her to different degrees, and then, after October 7th, blatantly implementing a fatal agenda towards the Jewish State. During Trump’s term, Obama kept his ‘government’ in place in Israel to undermine Netanyahu . Obama’s shadow government talked and bought its way into the core of Israeli politics; and, I surmise, made retired army general Gantz the figurehead of the American left’s own ‘Israeli’ political party within Israel. This party has morphed since its inception. It was first called ‘Resilience’, then called ‘Blue and White’, and now the strange nomer ‘State Camp’.
And polls? Would-be polls for imaginary elections during this multifront globally incited existential war? Israel is trying to keep evil at bay, and the nuts come out to play.
In Oregon they printed Voters Papers left out Trump this typical for the left but they failed