Hawaii former governors support Gabbard challenger - regards her house seat

[msongs]

not sure if this is for general or democratic primaries forum but it does mention her presidential campaign.

Two former Hawaii governors are backing the opponent challenging Gabbard for her currently held house seat. those governors do not disabuse her presidential campaign however.


https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/02/28/hawaii-news/former-governors-support-gabbard-challenger/?HSA=05fabac32c95c86112beba6bb3675cea91c440df&fbclid=IwAR22J1YumMvARXYrOgeyhtBFaUMT4bWMS5cgnRdr_DtJ2oRUdmDDTj9_zuw

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1. Get too cozy with repugs bad things happen.

[Cha]

2. It's also a Democratic Primary

in 2020.

From your link.. Mahalo!

“We know that she’s running for president, but we don’t know if she is going to run for her seat,” said Abercrombie. “And even if she does, I don’t think it’s realistic, let alone fair, to ask those of us who think we might be able to do well on that seat for Hawaii to sit back and kind of be passive about it. That’s not the kind of guy (Kahele) is. He gets things done. He focuses on his goals and he moves to accomplish them.

“So my view is pretty simple: I’m for Kai Kahele for Congress. I think I can make a case for him and I think John Waihee is going to be able to make a case for him. And I think he is going to be able to make a case for himself that the people of Hawaii are going to respond very, very positively to.”

[SFnomad]

3. Of course, it will be taken as opposition around here anyways ....

Both Abercrombie and Waihee said they are supportive of Gabbard’s decision to run for president and that their support for Kahele shouldn’t be taken as opposition to Gabbard.

[Devil Child]

4. They are free to do so, this is why we have primaries

I support primaries even if they challenge those I'm supportive of.

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5. The main thing is they're Supporting

Kai Kahele for Rep over Gabbard!

Link to tweet

[SFnomad]

6. If you read the article, you'd know they're not supporting Kahele "over Gabbard", because Gabbard

hasn't announced she's running for her House seat, being that she has announced she's running for President. And since Gabbard hasn't announced, rather than leave the seat "up for grabs", they're supporting Kahele for what they're considering at this point in time an open seat.

[Cha]

7. I read the article.

[Mr. Smith]

8. I thought trying to primary seat-holding Democrats was a no-no.

Apparently only sometimes.

Me, I don't have a problem with primaries.

[Cha]

9. Gabbard needs to be primaried whether justice dems knows it or not.

I want Kai Kalele to Rep me.

Gabbard won't even debate her opponents.

[Gothmog]

10. This will be fun to warch

Tulsi needs sanders to win so that she can be his VP

[oasis]

11. She'd probably settle for a position in his cabinet. nt